Stories by Fred Dreier

• Posted: Sat, Jul 5th
  Jeremiah Bishop and Sari Anderson win national marathon titles in Breckenridge
  Jeremiah Bishop wore a face of bewilderment and agitation as his Trek-Volkswagen teammates doused him in beer at the finish line of Breckenridge, Colorado’s Firecracker 50 on Friday. Bishop, 32, had no idea he’d just won the race and taken the marathon national championship, ...
• Posted: Thu, Jul 3rd
  National marathon cross-country championship awarded at Breckenridge's Firecracker 50
  The Firecracker 50 cross-country mountain bike race will rumble through the streets of Breckenridge, Colorado, Friday as the nation’s best battle for the U.S. national marathon title. The grueling 50-mile race, known for its 10,800 feet of total elevation gain, kicks off at 11 ...
• Posted: Sat, Jun 28th
  Olympic-bound: A conversation with Todd Wells
  Todd Wells is heading to China. With his impressive World Cup results this year, Wells grabbed the first of the United States’ two men’s spots for the Beijing Olympics. For the second-straight Games, the Durango, Colorado, resident is donning the stars and stripes to ...
• Posted: Sun, Jun 22nd
  Margarita Fullana, Christoph Sauser win 2008 Mountain Bike World Championships cross-country titles
  Christoph Sauser finally has his rainbow stripes. After four years of riding in the shadow of Frenchman Julien Absalon, Sauser took an emotional cross-country win at Val di Sole, Italy. The rail-thin Swiss star crushed the men’s field, soloing to a 2:54 margin of victory ...
• Posted: Sat, Jun 21st
  Rule Britannia: Athertons own Downhill worlds
  “God Save the Queen” received plenty of airtime on Saturday at the 2008 UCI world mountain-bike championships in Val di Sole, Italy, as British riders took three of the four downhill races. Brother-sister duo Gee and Rachel Atherton (Animal-Commençal) dethroned the once ...
• Posted: Sat, Jun 21st
  Buhl earns U.S. Gold in Four Cross
  Exhausted, sunburned but smiling in her new rainbow jersey — that’s how Melissa Buhl spent her Saturday evening. The Arizona native had a jam-packed schedule on the sun-baked penultimate day of the 2008 UCI world mountain bike championships in Val di Sole, Italy. First ...
• Posted: Sat, Jun 21st
  Buhl earns U.S. Gold in Four Cross
  Exhausted, sunburned but smiling in her new rainbow jersey — that’s how Melissa Buhl spent her Saturday evening. The Arizona native had a jam-packed schedule on the sun-baked penultimate day of the 2008 UCI world mountain-bike championships in Val di Sole, Italy. First ...
• Posted: Fri, Jun 20th
  Nino Schurter wins his third cross-country U23 world medal
  In his final year of espoir eligibility, Swiss phenom Nino Schurter stormed to his second world U23 cross-country title in three years. The 2006 U23 champ, who took silver last year, rode on the heels of South Africa’s Burry Stander for the first five or six laps in Val di ...
• Posted: Fri, Jun 20th
  Talking Olympic selection with USA Cycing's mountain bike coordinator, Marc Gullickson
  Less than five years since he last took the line as an elite bike racer, Marc Gullickson faces a new cycling challenge. As USA Cycling’s newly hired mountain-bike coordinator, “Gully” is charged with helping select the United States’ four-person cross-country team for ...
• Posted: Fri, Jun 20th
  Mountain Bike World Cup heads to South Africa in '09
  The world’s best mountain bike riders are heading to Greg Minnaar’s backyard for 2009. The UCI World Cup will host its opening round of 2009 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, hometown of Minnaar, the 2003 world downhill champ. It’s the first time since 1998 that South ...
• Posted: Thu, Jun 19th
  World Mountain Bike Championships gravity events preview
  The winner of Saturday’s downhill world championship race might not even have to turn one pedal stroke to victory. That’s because the root-covered, rock strewn course in Val di Sole, Italy, boasts such a constantly steep grade that riders will focus more on controlling their ...
• Posted: Thu, Jun 19th
  Peter Sagan wins junior mens cross-country title at the World Mountain Bike Championships
  The final podium of the 2008 world junior cross-country championship looked eerily similar to that from ’08 cyclocross worlds, held in January in Treviso, Italy. Only this time it was Slovakia’s Peter Sagan on the top rung, with Frenchman Arnaud Jouffroy in second — a ...