SCHWEITZER, Idaho (transcendmagazine.com) -- Preliminary Results are now in from Idaho. Look for writeup and photos coming shortly. Congratulations to Needles on his first NCS win, as well as Transcend contributor Berny Pizarro on another victory as well. Men 1- Andrew neethling 4:19.8 2- Greg Minnaar 4:19.9 3- Jared Graves 4:20.1 4- Joel Panozzo 4:20.5... ...[more]
SCHWEITZER, Idaho (transcendmagazine.com) -- Women's favorite Jill Kintner crashed out of qualifying on Friday, in her words it was a "TKO", leaving the first step on the podium up for grabs in Idaho. The women's finals were decided in a last corner crash, which took out Katrina Miller who was leading at the time. Tara... ...[more]
SCHWEITZER, Idaho (transcendmagazine.com) -- 4x finals start in a few hours in Idaho on a much improved course. Jill Kintner was kind enough to send us over a couple of pictures of the new course. Click Thumb velow for full size.... ...[more]
SCHWEITZER, Idaho (transcendmagazine.com) -- Mountain Cross qualifying took place this afternoon in Idaho. No word yet on how the course rode, but preliminary results are coming in now. Look for a full writeup this evening when our correspondents check in. Thanks to Scott over at Farkin.net for the preliminary men's results. Men 1- Rich Houseman... ...[more]
SCHWEITZER, Idaho (transcendmagazine.com) -- Not much news to report out of Idaho so far. The downhill is on the same course as last year, and conditions are dusty and dry (no surprise there for those who have raced it before). The 4x course is reportedly better then in years past, but still not spectacular. We... ...[more]
ANGEL FIRE, New Mexico (transcendmagazine.com) -- 4x finals took place tonight at the final North America world cup of the season. Win tonight's win, Jill Kintner (220 points) comes to within 30 points of points leader Anneke Beerten (250 Points) as the riders all prepare to head off to europe for the second to last... ...[more]
ANGEL FIRE, New Mexico (transcendmagazine.com) -- Sabrina Jonnier continued her domination of the women's DH class by absolutely crushing the rest of her class this afternoon in New Mexico. Her winning margin of 12.79 secs is the largest so far this season. Greg Minnaar also picked up where he left off, winning yet another round... ...[more]
It was sunny, dry and calm this morning for DH qualifiers in New Mexico. Hopefully the conditions stay optimal for the finals. Jared Graves has a fairly fat 2.88 second lead on Greg Minnaar going into final runs in a few hours. Women 1- Sabrina Jonnier 5:13.52 36.97km/h 2- Tracy Moseley 3- Vanessa Quinn 4-... ...[more]
ANGEL FIRE, New Mexico (transcendmagazine.com) -- Berny Pizarro checked in again with us today following downhill practice, here is what she had to say. Good luck tomorrow Berny. ------ There is nothing really interesting to tell today in the Downhill, just that the course is beat up, I think most of the riders were relaxing... ...[more]
ANGEL FIRE, New Mexico (transcendmagazine.com) -- The thunderstorms that were threatening rolled out and the qualifiers went ahead as planned. Kintner continued her domination of the women's division, well lopes scored par for the course again in the men's. Women 1- Jill Kintner 50.90 2- Anneke Beerten 3- Tara Llannes 4- Vanessa Quinn Men 1-... ...[more]
ANGEL FIRE, New Mexico (transcendmagazine.com) -- Timed training runs are in from the Angel Fire world cup Downhill. These are usually a pretty good judge of race times for the finals (as long as the fast guys elected to do runs).Just shave off 5-10 secs for estimated finals runs. We definetly have an interesting list... ...[more]
ANGEL FIRE, New Mexico (transcendmagazine.com) -- Just got this weekend's first update in from Berny Pizarro (Cannondale/Redbull). They should be coming in regularly now all weekend. --- I am up here in Angel Fire, in the World Cup ! Today we had training, it's a pretty cool course, the first half is really techical, like... ...[more]
BALNEARIO CAMBORIU, Brazil (transcendmagazine.com) 4x results are in. Not sure exactly what happened with the men's race, which saw Lopes head to the consolation round. We will find this out tomorrow as the reports roll in. The women finished as they qualified - at least all 4 riders started the finals. Men 1-RINDERKNECHT R 2-GRACIA... ...[more]
BALNEARIO CAMBORIU, Brazil (transcendmagazine.com) -- DH qualifying reults are in. The race is set to start in just over an hour. Men 1-Greg Minaar 2:26.23 34.71 km/h 2-Fabien Barel +1.63 3-Nathan Rennie +1.89 4-Markolf Bertchold 5-David Vasquez 6-Mickael Pascal 7-Gee Atherton 8-Cedric Gracia 9-Julien Camelini 10-Antionio Leiva +4.98 Women 1-Tracy Moseley 2:49.04 30.03 km/h 2-Marielle... ...[more]
CAMBORIU, Brazil (transcendmagazine.com) -- The 4x qualifying results are in. Won't be much of a 4x for the women, only 4 are entered, and Kintner has a sizeable lead of 1.5 secs. The men have a full field of 36 (44 took to the gate for qualifying), and Lopes was first with the slimmest of... ...[more]
CAMBORIU, Brazil (transcendmagazine.com) -- We just received word in from the world cup in Brazil that Mickael Pascal was the fastest today in timed training runs with a time of 2:30. Markolf Bertchold was #2 with a 2:31 and Greg Minaar in 3rd with a time of 2:34. 4x training starts in a little while.... ...[more]
CAMBORIU, Brazil (transcendmagazine.com) -- American 4x Queen Jill Kintner hooked us up with a mini writeup and some bitchin' photos from South America to share with everyone. Thanks Jill! -- Brazil is paradise. We could not have asked for a better place to race, the people here have done an amazing job. Not only did... ...[more]
CAMBORIU, Brazil (transcendmagazine.com) -- Just got this quick update in from Berny Pizarro who is in touch with numerous riders at the venue. We will keep you up to date on the proceedings as fast as Berny can Translate for us. "The course is not very technical, most of it is kind of open and... ...[more]
About a dozen photos from the 4 cross finals last night are now up. Sorry for the delay, but I wasn't feeling up to par last night and went to bed almost immediatley following dinner.... ...[more]
MONT STE ANNE' Canada (transcendmagazine.com) -- Full story and photos coming - results in. Minaar says he lost a pedal in the woods and couldn`t get back in..went slowly through the technical sections at the top. Kovarik: This is a real man`s course. Men 1- Fabien Barel 5:02.27 41.68 kmh 2- Greg Minaar 3- Marc... ...[more]
MONT STE ANNE, Canada (transcendmagazine.com) -- The rainstorms predicted are now here in sight. The course is only getting faster by the minute. Minaar is the top qualifier unofficially at this time, he put down a ridiculously fast 5:05....sitting up through the last 1000m - an average of about 40kmh...on a course that is half... ...[more]
MONT STE ANNE, Canada (transcendmagazine.com) -- 4x Qualifying just ended. Here is how it`ll look at 7pm Est. Men 1-Brian Lopes 2-Michael Prokop 3-Mick Hannah 4-Gee Atherton Women 1-Anneke Beerten 2-Jill Kintner 3-Tara llanes 4-Melissa Buhl... ...[more]
MONT STE ANNE, Canada (transcendmagazine.com) -- The heat has arrived, 39 degrees celsius and climbing today with the humidex. The downhill course was fast and rough this morning int he last practice session before race day. 8am, and almost everyone was on course ripping off some blazing fast runs. Kovarik, Barel and MInaar are still... ...[more]
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