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The 2010 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships continued on Thursday with the U23 womens cross country contest and the elite mens and womens four-cross qualification rounds. - [Read more]

The 2010 Richardson Bike Mart USA Cycling Masters Track National Championships got underway on Wednesday, awarding 13 Stars-and-Stripes on Wednesday before the Texas skies opened up to a torrential suspending the evening session. All competition will resume in order on Thursday morning at 8:00 a.m. at the Superdrome. - [Read more]

The 2010 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships kicked off on Wednesday with Todd Wells, Rob Squire, Seth Kemp, and Katie Compton placing the U.S. ninth in the team relay and junior rider Essence Barton riding to 13th place in the junior womenandrsquo;s cross country event. - [Read more]

A new group of junior road cyclists recently completed a trio of kermesses in Belgium while their off-road counterparts raced against world-class fields at the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup finale. U23 rider Andrew Talansky was second in a stage of Valle de Aosta last week. On the womens side of USA Cyclings development initiatives, a team of six young women just completed the Classica Citta di Padova and are now racing in the Holland Ladies Tour in the Netherlands. - [Read more]

The Richardson Bike Mart USA Cycling Masters Track National Championships will go off September 1-5 at the Superdome in Frisco, Texas. The two- and -three kilometer time trial events will kick things off on Wednesday. In all more than 250 masters track athletes will compete for the right to wear the Stars-and-Stripes signifying the countrys best. - [Read more]

Although Catherine Cheatley and Luis Amaran all but had the USA Cycling National Racing Calendar 2010 individual titles in the bag heading into the final event, their teams were still fighting for every point. The Fly V Australia mens squad pulled out all the stops at the Chris Thater Memorial, finishing one-and-two to lock down the mens team title. Cheatley finished second to help earn the overall womens title for the Colavita/Baci p/b Cooking Light ladies. - [Read more]

The 2010 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup is officially in the books as racing wrapped up on Windham Mountain in New Yorks Catskills on Sunday with the mens and womens downhill contests. Reigning U.S. national champ Aaron Gwin earned a spot on the overall World Cup podium in only his second year racing the World Cup circuit. His fourth place finish in Sundays final earned him fourth place overall in the final World Cup standings. - [Read more]

Saturday was a good day for American women as both Willow Koerber and Georgia Gould wrapped up the Mountain Bike World Cup season on the podium, in second and fourth respectively in the final overall standings. The womens success came during a busy day of racing at New Yorks Windham Mountain. The UCI Mountain Bike World Cup finale not only featured the elite mens and womens cross country contests on Saturday, but also the elite four cross competitions and the junior mens and womens cross country events. - [Read more]

Registration is now open for UCIs mens Continental and womens road teams. All teams wishing to register must contact USA Cycling before October 31. All UCI documents and contracts must be submitted to USA Cycling before November 5. New teams for 2011 should immediately contact USA Cycling Technical Director Shawn Farrell. - [Read more]

After a year filled with BMX successes, USA Cycling is thrilled to maintain its partnership with Intense BMX and to expand on efforts to develop Americaandrsquo;s extensive pipeline of Bicycle Motocross (BMX) athletes. With a focus on the future, the national governing body will continue to increase its development initiatives, including enhancing the USA Cycling Junior Development Program (JDP) sponsored by Intense BMX. - [Read more]

For the first time since 2005, a UCI Mountain Bike World Cup is being held in the United States. It gets underway this weekend with the top off-road athletes from around the world gathering in Windham, NY for the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup finale. Citizen bicyclists are invited to join in on the action during the Race the World events taking place at the Windham 2010 Mountain Bike World Cup Festival this week. - [Read more]

Levi Leipheimer, racing for Mellow Johnnys, won the six-day Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah on Sunday. Meanwhile, the penultimate race on the National Racing Calendar only served to tighten the margins between the top mens and womens professional teams in the country. - [Read more]

On the road, Lawson Craddock won the King of the Mountains competition at Germanys Regio Tour while riding for USA Cyclings National Development Program junior squad. More USA Cycling juniors just arrived in Belgium for a European race trip while a USA Cycling BMX Junior Development Program Camp recently wrapped up on the Olympic Training Centers Super Cross Track in Chula Vista, Calif. Additionally, USA Cycling is fielding a large contingent of development riders for the Mountain Bike World Cup finale at Windham Mountain, NY this weekend. - [Read more]

The 2010 USA Cycling elections concluded on Aug. 15 with more than 2,000 USA Cycling members casting a vote for their respective Boards of Trustees (BOT) which comprise the political structure of USA Cycling. In all, 14 trustees were elected across five associations representing various stakeholders of USA Cycling. - [Read more]

Coryn Rivera won a bronze medal in the womens omnium on Sunday, making it the second medal the United States has claimed in as many days at the 2010 UCI Juniors Track World Championship. - [Read more]

By becoming the first American to cross the line, Daniel Holloway (Morgan Hill, Calif./BISSELL Pro Cycling) earned the stars and stripes jersey at Saturdays ATandamp;T USA Cycling Professional Criterium National Championships at the Glencoe Grand Prix. - [Read more]

Matthew Baranoski (Perkasie, Penn.) took home the first medal for the United States at the 2010 UCI Juniors Track World Championships on Saturday, winning bronze in the mens keirin. - [Read more]

USA Cycling announced today that its Road, Track andamp; Cyclo-cross Board of Trutees has voted in favor of several rule changes for the upcoming cyclo-cross season. The new rules are in line with the UCI rulebook and will take effect at the beginning of the 2010/2011 cyclo-cross season. - [Read more]

USA Cycling announced today the 53 athletes nominated to represent the United States at the 2010 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Mont Saint Anne, Quebec, September 1-5. - [Read more]

The next generation of American cycling is looking strong. The U.S. junior men are ranked number one in the world for road cycling in the UCIs Junior Nations Cup while Connor Fields and Corben Sharrah are the top two junior men in the UCIs BMX Nations Rankings. USA Cycling is continuing to build the future of American cycling with initiatives like its Regional Development Camps, two of which wrapped up last week in Oregon and Wisconsin. - [Read more]