Former USA Cycling National Development Team rider Tyler Farrar (Wenatchee, Wash.), 24, scored one of the biggest wins of his career on Friday, taking stage three of Tirreno-Adriatico, a seven-stage race on the UCI’s world calendar.
In sprinting to victory, Farrar surged past arguably the international peloton’s fastest sprinter…Â
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Salt Lake County prosecutors have filed charges against three men in the February burglary of the home of Olympic cyclist Dave Zabriskie.
Howard Jay Leopold, 39, and Craig William Carlisle, 43, were charged Thursday in 3rd District Court.
Leopold was charged with two counts of second-degree felony burglary, two counts of second-degree felony theft and one class A misdemeanor of failure to stop.
Prosecutors say Leopold ransacked Zabriskie’s home … Details
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Olympian and former USA Cycling National Team standout Christian Vande Velde (LeMont, Ill.) broke away in the last 20-kilometers of the fourth stage of the classic Paris-Nice road race. Thirty-two year-old Vande Velde was one of the original members of USA Cycling’s early development programs, racing under the young national team banner for the first several years of his career.Â
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Rick Gunn left Carson City in 2003 and spent almost three years peddling around the world on his bicycle.
Gunn, a former photojournalist for the Nevada Appeal, pedaled across 1,200 miles of Tibet at 16,000 to 18,000 feet while stricken with giardia. As a volunteer at an AIDS hospice in Thailand, at one point he risked contracting tuberculosis while caring for a dying woman…. Details