Stories by Steve Frothingham

• Posted: Thu, May 15th
  BMC's Lill and Tibco's Kiesanowski win Mt. Hood's circuit race and take the overall leads.
  BMC's South African, Darren Lill, won Thursday's second stage of the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic by peeling away from the remnants of the peloton on the final climb a bit less than a kilometer to go. Lill, who won the fifth stage at Mt. ...
• Posted: Wed, May 14th
  Colavita's Tina Pic and Toyota's Hilton Clarke take crit wins and the overall lead in Portland.
  The Mt. Hood Cycling Classic ventured into new territory Wednesday with a new venue for the sixth year of the event: a hilly criterium held in a verdant city park wrapping around a long-extinct volcano. The new event delivered large crowds and down-to-the-wire racing action ...
• Posted: Tue, May 13th
  Kiwi trackies clean up at Mt. Hood opener
  A pair of New Zealander track riders — in the States for some summer road racing to tune up before the Olympics — took the first two spots in the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic women's prologue on Tuesday. Joanne Kiesanowski of the Tibco team, a four-time national points race ...
• Posted: Tue, May 13th
  Mt. Hood: the prologue to the Prologue
  There are few active racers who can be described as a legend with no dispute. Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli, who has won 51 French and world championships, is at the top of the list. When Longo, a last-minute entrant at the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic, arrived at race headquarters ...
• Posted: Mon, May 12th
  2008 Mt. Hood Cycling Classic boasts top lineup
  Lingering snows in the high country have forced organizers to re-route a key stage of Mt. Hood Cycling Classic, but they promise the improvised route for stage 5 is just as challenging — maybe even more so. The six-day stage race gets underway Tuesday with a 1.7-mile ...
• Posted: Sun, May 11th
  Blue Cycles' Ryan Barnett is recovering from a serious accident in Atlanta.
  Category 1 racer Ryan Barnett is recovering in an Atlanta hospital from a collision with a car on May 3. Barnett, who is the marketing manager for Blue Competition Cycles, was out for a quick spin prior to Sunday's Sandy Springs Classic criterium when the accident occurred, ...
• Posted: Tue, May 6th
  Fausto Esparza Munoz, who crashed in the Tour of the Gila, remains partly paralyzed.
  Fausto Esparza Munoz, the Tecos-Trek rider who crashed Sunday at New Mexico's Tour of the Gila, remains in an El Paso hospital paralyzed below his midsection. Doctors say the likelihood of a full recovery of movement is "discouraging," according to a source familiar with ...
• Posted: Sun, May 4th
  Ladino and Goldstein win Tour of the Gila overall titles
  Team Tecos-Trek's Colombian climber, Gregorio Ladino Vega, used the Tour of the Gila's mountainous final stage on Sunday to regain the race lead he lost in the stage 3 time trial. [nid:75825]Bissell's Burke Swindlehurst, a three-time winner of ...
• Posted: Sat, May 3rd
  Vogels and Heal are heroes in Gila crit
  The last turn of the Tour of the Gila's criterium is key for daredevil sprinters with the nerve to attack into the narrow left-hander and charge to the finish less than 300 meters away. The riders enter the turn at top speed thanks to a wide-open descent, and a mistake means ...
• Posted: Fri, May 2nd
  Bissell's big boys take control of the Gila time trial
  On another blustery day in southwestern New Mexico, Bissell's big men Tom Zirbel and Ben Jacques-Maynes hammered on the GC contenders to take the first two spots in the 16.4-mile Tyrone time trial. Zirbel turned ...
• Posted: Thu, May 1st
  Stage 2: Wren takes stage at Gila; Vega leads
  Tyler Wren (Colavita-Sutter Home) won Thursday's second stage of the Tour of the Gila with a final kilometer solo attack, while overall leader Gregorio Ladino Vega's Team Tecos-Trek put on another powerful show, setting a blistering pace over 80 miles of wind and hills. The ...
• Posted: Wed, Apr 30th
  The Mexican Team Tecos-Trek takes two podium spots at the Tour of the Gila's opening stage.
  Team Tecos-Trek continued its domination of Southwestern road cycling Wednesday by taking two of the top three spots on the first stage of the Tour of the Gila, a 94.1-mile stage that ended with a brutal climb to Mogollon, New Mexico. Colombian Gregorio Ladino Vega won the ...