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FOLSOM, California – The West’s first dedicated USA Cycling mountain bike racing series for school-age kids, the Sierra Nevada High School Racing Series, debuts in just two weeks time at Granite Bay, California. The new series will kick off its first season with an ice-breaker short track cross country race on National Short Track Course in the Granite Bay Recreation Area.
Upwards of 150 high school and middle school racers are expected to be on hand to race including area standouts Shayna Powless of Roseville High, reigning X-Terra National Champion and 2 time Nor Cal Varsity Champion, Woodcreek High School’s Jimmy Winne, Nevada Union’s Jeremiah Newman and Steven Baldock, Maren Cosens of Oakridge, and the outstanding duo of Sam Wamhoff and Kyle Luther of Folsom High … More
Lance Armstrong says he will be vindicated by a U.S. Anti-Doping Agency investigation of claims raised by a report in Sports Illustrated.
Armstrong used Twitter on Friday to suggest that USADA may probe allegations published by the magazine this week in an article entitled “The Case Against Lance Armstrong.â€
“Great to hear that USADA is investigating some of SI’s claims. I look forward to being vindicated,†the seven-time Tour de France winner said  … more
Imagine blisters the size of silver dollars, climbing 200,000 feet through the Rocky Mountains on a mountain bike, pushing it up snow-lined passes and rocky gorges, then long arid desert rides in the middle of nowhere to some Mexican border town 2,700 miles south.
Get it? If not, you might want to check out “Ride the Divide,†the cinematic story of three mountain bikers who set out to ride the Tour Divide, said to be the toughest mountain bike race on the planet  … More