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December 8, 2020
USA Cycling Champions the Programs, Participation, and Performances Essential to Cycling in America with New Board Members
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – USA Cycling announced the approval, by vote, of new organizational bylaws and Board of Director members. In an overwhelming vote of confidence and after working in close alignment, the USA Cycling Board of Directors has given a full endorsement to the next 100 years of championing...
December 8, 2020
Wahoo Announce Official Partnership with Challenge Family
(London – Tuesday, 8th December 2020) – Wahoo- the global leader in smart training - has officially launched a new partnership with CHALLENGE FAMILY, one of the leading global triathlon event organisers. Wahoo joins CHALLENGE FAMILY in a three-year commitment, which will see them as the ‘Official Global Training Partner' and...
December 7, 2020
PeopleForBikes Announces New Coalition Members and Subcommittee Volunteers
BOULDER, COLO (Dec. 7, 2020) — Despite the many challenges our nation faced in 2020, PeopleForBikes was hard at work this year supporting the bike industry and getting more people on bikes. Working to ensure bicycling and local bike shops were considered essential at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
December 7, 2020
Bikes projected to outsell cars in Europe two-to-one by 2030
Three cycling associations this week announced a new forecast for the cycling sector, which showed that Europeans are expected to buy an extra 10 million bikes per year by 2030, a whopping 47% more than in 2019. Cyclingtips
December 4, 2020
New Balance is laying off several dozen employees as it shutters Boston factory
The footwear and apparel brand revealed that 63 employees at its Boston-based factory will be affected. Footwear News
December 4, 2020
A new challenge for professional triathletes: Toppling Ironman Inc.
For decades, the Ironman and other races filled with weekend warriors have dominated triathlon. Now, the elites are trying to take control with a new series. NYT (subscription)
December 4, 2020
Made in the Mitten – A Story of Snowboarding
(Holland, MI) Dec. 5 2020 -- New Holland Brewing of Holland, MI is partnering with Vermont-based iconic snowboard brand, Burton, to support director Zeppelin Zeerip’s new short film, Made in the Mitten. Harkening back to the original days of Snurfing, as popularized by inventor Sherman Poppen in 1965 in Muskegon,...
December 3, 2020
IRONMAN’s Response to False and Misleading Statements Regarding Andrew Starykowicz Anti-Doping Rule Violation
IRONMAN’s Anti-Doping Program IRONMAN has been a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code Signatory since 2005, and as such IRONMAN is obligated to operate its Anti-Doping Program in compliance with the WADA Code like other private and public WADA Code Signatory’s. IRONMAN is committed to complying with its obligations as a...
December 3, 2020
Statement of the PTO on Andrew Starykowicz Case
LONDON, ENGLAND: The Professional Triathletes Organisation today announced that it will be appointing counsel to investigate what appears to be structural irregularities in the anti-doping case against Andrew Starykowicz. The PTO has written to USA Triathlon and World Triathlon, the applicable recognised not-for-profit governing bodies, to communicate its concerns and...
December 1, 2020
Michael Capiraso To Step Down As NYRR President & Chief Executive
Kerin Hempel, a former New York Road Runners executive and consultant, has been named interim CEO. Capiraso’s departure was preceded by a tumultuous time for the 62 year-old NYRR, hit hard by the pandemic, thus forcing a complete halt to in-person running events, and necessitating the reduction of its staff....