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USA Cycling announces road race team for Paris that will try to end 40-year Olympic medal drought
Magnus Sheffield and Matteo Jorgenson will join Brandon McNulty on the U.S. cycling team for the Paris Olympics, giving the American contingent perhaps its best chance in four decades to win a road race medal. McNulty had already qualified for the team by winning the national time...
Olympic champion track cyclist Katie Archibald to miss Paris Games after freak accident
LONDON (AP) — British two-time Olympic champion track cyclist Katie Archibald will miss the Paris Games after breaking two leg bones in a freak accident. The 30-year-old Archibald fractured her tibia and fibula and dislocated an ankle when she tripped over a garden step. ...
World champ Alise Willoughby will lead the US BMX racing team at her fourth Olympics in Paris
Alise Willoughby has done just about everything in BMX racing except win an Olympic gold medal. She'll get her fourth shot at the Paris Games. The 33-year-old stalwart of U.S. racing was selected Tuesday for the five-rider squad — three women and two men — that USA...
Schurter and Ferrand-Prevot win mountain bike World Cup in Italy, build momentum for Paris Olympics
VAL DI SOLE, Italy (AP) — Nino Schurter of Switzerland and Pauline Ferrand-Prevot of France won mountain bike World Cup races in Italy on Sunday, making emphatic statements that the veterans are still among the ones to beat at the Paris Olympics in just over a month. Schurter, a...
Olympic champ Jennifer Valente, Chloe Dygert highlight US track cycling team picked for Paris Games
Jennifer Valente and Chloe Dygert will be busy during the Paris Olympics next month. The pair of American cyclists highlight the track team that USA Cycling announced for the Summer Games on Thursday, and each will take part in multiple events. Valente will try to defend her title in...
Olympic veterans Christopher Blevins and Haley Batten lead US mountain bike team for Paris Games
Short-track world champion Christopher Blevins, who has become a mainstay on the mountain bike World Cup podium over the past three years, and Haley Batten will lead a U.S. team with medal ambitions into the Paris Olympics next month. USA Cycling announced its four-person lineup...
Paris Olympics: What to know and who to watch during the triathlon competition
A roadmap to follow for the triathlon competition at the Paris Games: Athletes to Watch —Alex Yee, Britain: The silver medalist in Tokyo three years ago won a test event on the Paris course last August. He is a former 10,000-meter runner on the track. ...
David Malukas joins Meyer Shank Racing after getting dropped by Arrow McLaren following bike crash
ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (AP) — David Malukas on Friday was hired by Meyer Shank Racing, giving the young driver a landing spot roughly a a month after Arrow McLaren fired him for missing the first four races of the season with hand and wrist injuries suffered in an offseason mountain bike crash. ...
Paris Olympics: What to know and who to watch during the cycling competition
A roadmap to follow for cycling — BMX freestyle and racing, time trial and road racing, track cycling and cross-country mountain biking — during the Paris Olympics: Athletes to Watch —Chloe Dygert, United States: The reigning time trial world champion also will...
Olympic champion Carapaz misses out on Ecuador's road cycling spot at Paris Games
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Richard Carapaz will not be at the Paris Olympics to defend his road cycling title. Ecuador's only representative at the Olympics in the road cycling race and individual time trial will be Jhonatan Narváez, the national cycling federation said in a statement...
