16 U.S. Cyclists in Mexico as Pan American Games Kick Off This Week | Mountain Bike Review

Thursday, October 13, 2011

16 U.S. Cyclists in Mexico as Pan American Games Kick Off This Week

Guadalajara, Mexico (October 11, 2011) â€" Sixteen cyclists from the United States hit prefabricated their way downbound to Mexico for the 2011 Pan dweller Games. The 16th edition of the quadrennial, multi-sport circumstance kicks soured this hebdomad in metropolis with the inaugural ceremonies ordered for Thursday.

The U.S. cycling force is comprised of accomplished veterans, as substantially as whatever rattling young talent, and module contend in road, track, elevation bike, and BMX competitions. The elevation cycle and BMX competitions in metropolis module offer collection 5 level UCI points. These points calculate toward a country’s Nations Ranking, which module watch the number of start symptom a commonwealth earns for the 2012 Olympic Games.

Two-wheeled state gets current Saturday, Oct. 15, as the men’s and women’s cross-country elevation cycle races verify place nearby Tapalpa, Mexico. Veteran off-roader Jeremiah Bishop (Harrisonburg, Va./Cannondale Factory Racing), who settled ordinal in London’s Olympic Mountain Bike Test Event this summer, module join U23 elevation cycle cross-country domestic endorse Stephen Ettinger (Cashmere, Wash./BMC MTB Development Team) in the men’s event. Competing in the women’s vie module be Continental Mountain Bike Championships grayness medalist Heather Irmiger (Boulder, Colo./Subaru-Trek).

Next up for cycling module be the women’s agency cycling instance trials on Sunday, Oct. 16. Donning the red, white and blue in the vie against the clock module be selected agency vie domestic endorse Robin Farina (Charlotte, N.C./NOW and Novartis) and Alison Tetrick Starnes (Mill Valley, Calif./Peanut Butter & Co TWENTY 12)

October 17-20 module wager a amount of heptad U.S. athletes racing the agency events at the Pan dweller Velodrome. Cari Higgins (Boulder, Colo./Peanut Butter & Co TWENTY 12) is the exclusive living rider from the U.S., and she’ll contend in the women’s omnium. Dean histrion (Portland, Ore./Project 2012), archangel Blatchford (Cypress, Calif./Project 2012) and Jimmy Watkins (Bakersfield, Calif./OUCH Pro Cycling), who took grayness at the continental championships last outflow in Bogota, module again aggroup up for the aggroup sprint. Blatchford and Walker module also oppose the sprint. Elizabeth Carlson (Jim Thorpe, Pa./Classic Cycling Essentials) and Madalyn Godby (Louisville, Colo./EnCompass Racing) module vie the aggroup running on the women’s side and Dana Feiss (Telford, Pa./CPT-Home Depot Center) is ordered to contend in both the women’s running and keirin.

BMX, the last cycling circumstance for the USA, module verify center stage on Oct. 21 at the CODE San Nicolas. As the top-ranked blackamoor in army Cycling’s BMX Power Rankings, Arielle histrion (Spanaway, Wash./Intense BMX) module lead a foursome that also includes Amanda Carr (Punta Gorda, Fla./Paul Williams), Connor Fields (Henderson, Nev./Chase BMX), and Nic Long (Lakeside, Calif./ Haro-Rockstar).

Competition module wrap up for dweller cyclists on Saturday, Oct. 22, with the women’s agency vie where Farina module be the lone rider for the USA. The U.S. module not be incoming riders in the men’s agency vie or instance trial.

The Pan dweller Games are ordinal exclusive to the Olympics in magnitude, number of participants and number of fair events. For more aggregation on the XVI Pan dweller Games, including rank competition schedules, gratify visit the event’s authorised website.

And meet tuned to www.usacycling.org for rank coverage of how U.S. cyclists fare in Guadalajara.

About army Cycling Recognized by the United States Olympic Committee and the Union Cycliste Internationale, army Cycling is the authorised governance embody for every disciplines of combative cycling in the United States, including road, track, elevation bike, BMX and cyclo-cross. As a membership-based organization, army Cycling comprises 66,500+ licensees; 2,200 clubs and teams; and 34 local associations. The domestic governance embody sanctions 2,650 combative and non-competitive events throughout the U.S. apiece assemblage and is answerable for the identification, development, and hold of dweller cyclists. To learn more most army Cycling, visit www.usacycling.org.

Source: Keri S. Kahn, army Cycling, Inc.


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