Over the weekend, American athletes demonstrated the strength of USA Cycling’s Development Programs with significant accomplishments on the road, as well as the Supercross track.
Ben King (North Garden, Va./Trek-Livestrong) became the first U23 to win the USA Cycling Professional Road Race national title while his teammate, fellow development program rider Taylor Phinney (Boulder, Colo./Trek-Livestrong) took the USA Cycling Professional Time Trial national title a day earlier. Meanwhile, in Spain, National Development Program graduate Tyler Farrar (Wenatchee, Wash./Garmin-Transitions) demonstrated what his years in USA Cycling’s programs did for his career by taking his second stage win in the Vuelta a Espana … Details