Colorado Springs, Colo. (August 11, 2010) — USA Cycling announced today the 53 athletes nominated to represent the United States at the 2010 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Mont Sainte Anne, Quebec, September 1-5.
Seven men and seven women will wear the red, white and blue while competing for world titles in the elite cross country races.
As the reigning national champion, and winner of the 2010 USA Cycling Pro XCT, Todd Wells (Durango, Colo./Specialized) earned the only automatic nomination to the elite men’s cross country squad. He’ll be joined on the course by discretionary nominees Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (Boulder, Colo./Subaru-Trek), Adam Craig (Bend, Ore./Giant), Sam Schultz (Missoula, Mont./Subaru-Trek), Michael Broderick (Chilmark, Mass./Kenda-Seven-NoTubes), Carl Decker (Bend, Ore./Giant), and Spencer Paxson (Seattle, Wash./Team S&M Young Guns)   … Details
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So the deal then, Hardtail is not a proper race class here in the UK, officially we dont exist, there is no BC/UCI Hardtail race class, therefore we are unlicensed , mostly unsponsored ,  unprofessional racers. After feeling shut out we got into the 07 National champs at Rheola and it’s gone on from there. No frills bikes, some riders that are proper animals, maybe some beer and a chance to sort out an Unofficial ranking. Maybe some prizes, maybe not, but a get together to rip down some hill, have a laugh and work out who is the biggest animal on a bike.
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT.
As things stand the Hardtail class is run as  … Details
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Old School vs. New School. That sounds a bit trite. But it was the unvarnished truth of the Garbanzo DH race with the likes of Emmeline Ragot, Justin Leov, Gee Atherton, and Sam Blenkinsop facing off against the two most dominant forces in downhill racing from a generation back: Anne Caroline Chausson and Nicolas Vouilloz. Both “retired†from World Cup racing on their own terms nearly a decade ago, and both are still just as awe inspiring now as they were back then, with Chausson winning gold at the Beijing Olympics in BMX and Vouilloz, when he’s not crushing it on the rally car circuit, crushing it in the Avalanche race series and other Enduro style races back in Europe. For that matter, Chausson won this year’s edition of the Alpe D’Huez Megavalanche—the monster in the Megavalanche series … Details & Great Pictures
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