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Rio de Janeiro's posh beach neighborhoods lost power for hours in sweltering summer weather Tuesday, prompting restaurants to toss out spoiled food and business owners to send employees home.
Mike Plant was elected to the 15-member UCI Management Committee by the UCI Congress in Lugano, Switzerland during the UCI Road World Championships in September. A previous member of the UCI Management Committee from 1997 to 2004, Plant joins the president of the Pan American Cycling Confederation, Cuban Jose Pelaez, for another four-year term representing the American contingent to cycling's ...
USA Cycling announced today the return of the nationandrsquo;s professional cross country mountain bike series designed to amplify athletesandrsquo; opportunities, increase exposure for mountain biking domestically and to maximize U.S. start spots on the sportandrsquo;s highest stages. The USA Cycling Pro Mountain Bike Cross Country Tour (Pro XCT) presented by US Cup will consist of six UCI ...
Natalie Benson has created a sort of domino effect for the Huntington Beach Water Polo Club.
L’Observateur LaPlace’s Charles “Chuck” Wisher was honored last Saturday as Louisiana’s Senior Olympian of the Year at the Celebration of Athletes luncheon in Baton Rouge.
Two men were executed in China on Tuesday for their roles in a contaminated milk powder scandal that led to the deaths of at least six infants and sickened up to 300,000, state media said.
Kelvin Garmon, who played for the Dallas Cowboys, is among them.
APPLETON There arent too many things Jinelle Zaugg-Siergiej cant do with a hockey puck.
TOKYO -- World Victory Road’s Sengoku Raiden Championships will contribute fighters to Fighting and Entertainment Group's Dynamite event on New Years Eve at the Super Saitama Arena.
Zhang Lin speaks of plans to train in the US in 2010; Jones eyes 'record' fourth Olympics; Alain Bernard and Hugues Duboscq receive honours connected to their work in voluntary work with police and military forces
LOS ANGELES, California, November 23. OVER the weekend, Arena announced that it signed a pair of top-flight U.S. swimmers in Rebecca Soni and Eric Shanteau. The following are each of their press rel...
Two men were executed in China on Tuesday for their roles in a scandal over contaminated milk powder that led to the deaths of at least six infants and sickened up to 300,000, state media said.
The elite series will feature six UCI-sanctioned events in California, Alabama, Wisconsin and Colorado.
Our readers pipe up about rescuing track races, the proper pressure for ’cross clinchers and Contador's decision to stick with Astana.
Business leaders learn from the wisdom of swim legend John Naber; a new wave of 1,500m strength is building Down Under, says Alan Thompson; Japan ties itself in knots; and Thorpey struggles to keep pace with suit wars
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Germany's athletics association has restored a 1936 high jump record to Gretel Bergmann who was stripped of the recognition and banned from that year's Berlin Olympic Games by the Nazis because she was Jewish. The association said in a statement that the gesture to restore Bergmann's 1.60-meter jump to the record books "can in no way make up" for the past but was "an act...
A week ago, I wrote an open letter to the Union Cycliste Internationale and International Olympic Committee regarding potential changes in the track-racing schedule at the 2012 Olympic Games in London — especially the proposed elimination of the individual pursuit. An Internet petition has since been set in motion, but what else can be done to change the UCI’s mind? Time is at a premium because ...
For 11-year-old fraternal twins Allayna and Gillian Gagnard of Clarendon Hills, climbing the 103 stories of the Willis Tower was a piece of cake.
After years of borrowing designs from around the world, China is returning to its architectural roots and hopes to pump up domestic tourism.
