The 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games kick off on Friday with the opening ceremony. Shortly after that, former Fort Lewis cycling star and current Durango resident Savilia Blunk will race for gold in ...

French and Swiss athletes regularly medal at the Olympics. In Tokyo, Switzerland swept the women’s event, but that can’t happen in Paris as there are new quota allocations limiting the number of ...

ELANCOURT, France (AP) — French mountain biker Pauline Ferrand-Prevot carries a pair of tattoos — the Olympic rings under her left wrist and the phrase “Life is a joke” on the back of her neck — that ...

KNWU's technical director explains how 'a combination is possible' with five days separating men's XCO and road race, only ...

Tom Pidcock, the reigning Olympic mountain bike champion, has criticised the state of the course in Paris, describing it as “bland” and “just gravel”. The 24-year-old from Yorkshire, who had to pull ...

Mountain biking is one of the newer Olympic sports, debuting in 1996. The cross-country rough cycling event tests riders technique and stamina during the one- to two-hour race across 10 kilometers of ...

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Tough luck found Howard Grotts at the Olympics. The 23-year-old from Durango finished 38th out of 49 competitors in the cross-country mountain bike race Sunday on the final day of the 2016 Summer ...

ELANCOURT, France — French mountain biker Pauline Ferrand-Prevot finally won the Olympic gold medal that she had been chasing for more than a decade on Sunday, while Haley Batten pounced when ...