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If getting cut from the team in one sport leads to excelling in another, then we should all try out for college soccer.
It worked for Alison Dunlap. In 1987, after Dunlap just missed out on playing Division I soccer for Colorado College in Colorado Springs, she joined a cycling club instead, then went on to dominate women’s cycling in multiple disciplines and represent the United States not once, but twice, in the summer Olympic Games  … More
The 11th version of this Mountain Bike Urban Downhill returns to ValparaÃso´s hills. Streets, stairs and natural obstacles will challenge the riders in one of the most famous MTB downhill competitions of the world.
On the road to a new bicycle tax in Washington state — more on that in a second — a legislator, by his own admission, said a rather silly thing to a Tacoma bike shop owner last week.
“If I am not mistaken, a cyclists [sic] has an increased heart rate and respiration,” state Rep. Ed Orcutt wrote in a Feb. 25 email to that owner, Dale Carlson, who shared it with the Los Angeles Times. “That means the act of riding a bike results in greater emissions of carbon dioxide from the rider. Since CO2 is deemed to be a greenhouse gas and a pollutant, bicyclists are actually polluting when they ride.”
The email quickly became  … More