The UCI’s decision earlier this week to eliminate four cross racing from its Mountain Bike World Cup series has surprised and upset many four cross racers in the sport. In response the Four Cross Alliance has promised to put together a new, alternative world-level series so elite-level racers can continue to compete on the world stage in the run-up to the 2012 UCI Four Cross World Championships next September in Austria.
“The Four Cross Alliance is as stunned and surprised as are the majority of people out there…,” read a statement from Scott Beaumont and Chris Roberts of the Four Cross Alliance  … More
Jake Burton, founder and owner of Burton Snowboards, announced via company memo Friday night that he had been diagnosed with testicular cancer.
“The bad news is that I have cancer. The good news is that it is as curable as it gets. What I have is called Seminoma, also known as Testicular Cancer (think Lance Armstrong). I have three … More
Windsurfing on West Grand Traverse Bay, MI. Using 8.3m sail and Starboard Formula 156 board.
After winning the USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado in August, Levi Leipheimer returned home to Santa Rosa to warm up for a couple of season-ending races in Canada. Training on the local roads he knows so well, Leipheimer recently found himself returning from St. Helena on Spring Mountain Road.
Leipheimer is a fiend for data, and he knows … More