Cathy Fegan-Kim and Alex Kim, the founders and operators of the DNA Professional Biking, confirmed that when a 12-year run with the Utah-based ladies’s crew ends in December they’ll transfer into roles as advisors and sponsors for the Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24 ladies’s crew.
Earlier this summer time the Kim household introduced that they might shut the doorways to the profitable DNA Professional Biking crew, however would search for alternatives to remain engaged with ladies’s skilled biking. When the brand new calendar rolls over into 2025, the Kim’s transfer into assist roles for the ladies’s crew based and managed by Nicola Cranmer.
“It’s a extremely good match. Nicola’s programme is strong and we will keep concerned in ladies’s biking,” Alex Kim advised Cyclingnews. “Yeah, we met in Paris [to confirm the deal], each there to look at monitor competitions. We’ve got thrilling plans.”
The Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24 programme plans to replace the crew’s title within the new 12 months, to TWENTY28, a nod to the Olympiad interval constructing to the Los Angeles Olympic Video games. The crew will proceed to function beneath the administration of Cranmer and the nonprofit organisation Tam Biking. The Kim’s don’t plan to leap again into administration roles, however present monetary assist and seek the advice of behind the scenes.
“I’ve identified Alex and Cathy for over a decade, and their unwavering assist for his or her crew has been actually exceptional. Working a ladies’s biking crew is extremely difficult, and I deeply admire their dedication and accomplishments,” stated Cranmer, common supervisor of Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24, in a press launch.
“Each our packages share a robust imaginative and prescient of supporting multi-disciplined athletes with high-performance objectives, and this dedication will proceed shifting ahead.”
Since 2005 Cranmer’s crew has centered on elevating ladies within the sport of biking and has supplied a pathway for athletes to the Olympic Video games. The crew’s most notable athlete in Paris was Jennifer Valente, who gained two gold medals on the monitor for Staff USA.
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“During the last 19 years, and particularly within the current successes of VBR Twenty24’s multidisciplinary athletes on gravel, MTB, street, and monitor—most notably Jennifer Valente’s double gold medal haul in Paris 2024—we’ve seen the unimaginable influence of Nicola’s program. We’re assured that persevering with our funding within the sport with VBR Twenty24 will yield optimistic outcomes for girls’s biking, notably as we strategy the 2028 LA Olympics.”
Unbound Gravel units lottery dates for November
Life Time, the proprietor and producer of vastly widespread Unbound Gravel occasions in Emporia, Kansas, introduced the lottery for entries into subsequent 12 months’s occasion will transfer to November 1-15, 2024. That is two months sooner than earlier years, and can embrace all 5 race distances – 25, 50, 100, 200 and 350 miles.
Those that secured an entry can be introduced on November 21, 2024. Organisers stated they hoped this would offer extra time for coaching for any athlete. The 2025 Life Time Unbound Gravel occasion will happen Could 29-June 1, with 4,000 registered spots anticipated to be stuffed by the lottery course of.
Assured entries are provided by a first-come, first-serve foundation within the Unbound Gravel Coaching Camp, beginning October 15, 2024. As well as, some spots could be earned by fundraising for an official charity social gathering, out there by the Life Time Basis, or a qualifying race, together with The Life Time Rad Filth Fest in Trinidad, Colorado on September 28.
Minnesota hosts US Gravel Nationwide Championships in 2025-2026
USA Biking introduced that the 2025 and 2026 editions of the US Gravel Nationwide Championships can be held in La Crescent, Minnesota. The areas of southeast Minnesota and western Wisconsin are first-time hosts for a biking championship.
The 2024 US Gravel Nationals will happen in three weeks in Nebraska, beginner and elite races happening on Sunday, September 8.
In 2025, the occasion will transfer to the third week of September, coinciding with the annual Apple Pageant in La Crescent.
“We’re excited to convey our Gravel Nationwide Championships to La Crescent/La Crosse for 2025-2026. The area’s numerous panorama gives a number of choices for growing distinctive programs with difficult climbs, creating a brand new and completely different expertise for riders out on the course. Combining our occasion with their famend annual Apple Pageant gives one other distinctive expertise that our riders and their households can get pleasure from off the course,” stated Kyle Knott, USA Biking’s Director of Nationwide Occasions.
Experience for Magnus attracts 4,000 members to honour Magnus White
The White Line Basis, based a 12 months in the past to honor the legacy of former US bicycle owner Magnus White, hosted the Experience for Magnus on August 11 in his hometown of Boulder, Colorado. Greater than 4,000 members turned out to participate within the free occasion, anchored by a 13.5-mile bike journey that handed the placement the place 17-year-old White was struck and killed by a motorist on July 29, 2023.
“This occasion not solely honors Magnus, a promising 17-year-old bicycle owner, but in addition serves as a robust advocacy rally for the protection of all susceptible street customers,” his father Michael White stated in a pre-ride message.
Starting on the campus of College of Colorado Boulder, free occasions included strolling and biking occasions, with registrations from all 50 states and greater than 20 international locations. Organisers famous the turnout would make it one of many largest commemorative advocacy rides in U.S. historical past.
The inspiration hoped to make roads safer for susceptible customers with adjustments on the native, state and nationwide ranges, together with elevated penalties for vehicular murder in Colorado, acceleration in planning and development of bicycle and pedestrian initiatives, and a brand new federal rule that requires U.S. vehicles to have Automated Emergency Braking, which can detect and stop collisions with cyclists, in addition to motorcyclists.
White was a member of the US Nationwide Biking Staff and was US Junior Cyclocross Nationwide Champion. He was killed on a coaching journey, simply days earlier than competing within the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Scotland.
