Midland’s Erin Wood is pumped to compete in the 2008 Ontario Provincial Mountain Bike Championships, which will take place next Sunday at Mountainview Ski Area.
Source: Midland Free Press. For the full story, click here.

At 17 years of age Caroline Buchanan isn’t even old enough to drive at the sign-posted speed limit on most highways in Australia. But that hasn’t stopped the Canberra rider from speeding down the four cross, downhill, and BMX tracks of the world, learned Cyclingnews’ Greg Johnson.
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Imagine riding down a ski hill on a mountain bike at full speed, getting big air, with nothing between you and the trees, other than your wits and pure adrenaline.
Source: Barrie Advance. For the full story, click here.

Experience may be the most fitting descriptor to explain the path Kathy Pruitt of Santa Cruz, Calif., took in snaring her title at the first leg of the Jeep 48STRAIGHT Mountain Bike Series today at Diablo Freeride Park in Vernon, N.J. Click here to read the rest of the article →

With a healthy cash payout and exposure in front of thousands of race fans in person and on national broadcast television at stake, it was little surprise that Diablo Freeride Park in Vernon, N.J. was a hotbed of activity for professional and semi-professional mountain bike racers on Friday. Click here to read the rest of the article →

Catharine Pendrel was just a couple of deep breaths away from a surprise podium finish. Medal favourite Marie-Helene Premont couldn’t catch her breath, causing her Olympic hopes to vanish.
Source: Daily Gleaner. For the full story, click here.

If Marie-Hélène Prémont’s Olympic mountain-biking career ended yesterday - not with a gold medal but with an abandonment owing to a racing pulse rate and hyperventilation - she was philosophical and realistic about it.
Source: Canada.com. For the full story, click here.

Sabine Spitz of Germany took the gold medal in the Olympic women’s mountain bike race on Saturday, adding it to the bronze she won at the Athens Games four years ago.
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Mountain bikers battled extreme obstacles, as well as the heat and the mud, on a steep, boulder-strewn course made tougher by the sport’s officials this year for Saturday’s Olympic finals.
Source: The Guardian. For the full story, click here.

A missed shift on one of the last climbs of a challenging course on a brutally hot day cost Catharine Pendrel of Kamloops a legitimate shot at an Olympic bronze medal Saturday in women’s mountain biking.
Source: Canada.com. For the full story, click here.