July 2007
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR 7/31/07
A rash of hit-and-runs on cyclists; three in two months---and those are only the ones making headines. Does this connect to Cache County school district deciding to drug test students? Yes, in a very big question kind of way...
WALSHE, NOW WITH RED BULL, ON MENTAL TRAINING
Andy Walsh is at the X-Games, evaluating athletes as the new High Performance Manager for Red Bull. Wait for it; Red Bull sponsored athletes will soon be eating the world. What does the man who turned USSA athletes into winners, have to say about mental training?...
CLIMBERS: TIME TO GO GREEN
Climbing editor Patrick Walsh writes a poetic, almost Zen-like analysis of climbers and their place in the circle that goes round and round...
BLACK OR WHITE---NO GRAY IN TOUR'S FUTURE
Tour de France leader Michael Rasmussen has been kicked out of the race, the third rider in two days to be bounced. Details....
BREAKING NEWS: VINO DQ'D, ASTANA TEAM OUT!
Alexandre Vinokourov has been kicked out of the Tour de France Tuesday after a blood test Saturday showed signs of doping. His entire Astana team has withdrawn from the race. We will keep updating this story. Vino's B sample is still to be tested...
THE BEST ADVENTURE PARK IN THE WORLD---AND IT'S HERE
There's nothing like it anywhere. Ride a bobsled, feel what it's like to be a ski jumper going off the big jump. Sign up to learn how to pilot a skeleton down one of the fastest tracks on earth. See an avalanche. Or try to keep your pride contained when you visit the museum...
ADVENTURE SPORTS by WINA STURGEON 7/23
Prejudice in the Tribune...NASCAR in and out of Utah...The guy who knows Mitt refuses to speak..."Bible of the Sport" moves to Salt Lake...Olympic champ works desk at Olympic Park...Save bucks on buying gas...
FROM THE RIDER'S EYE
Latest updates from the Tour, and an odd perspective---what it looks like when you're the one on the lead bike.
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INTERMOUNTAIN CUP RESULTS: Jackson Hole
The race was called "Taming the Tetons," but the mountains fought back. Full results from the Wyoming race...
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
It's certainly the most exciting---and supposedly the cleanest---Tour in years, even as big hopes for a Utah star (not Levi) fade. The current ins and outs, and why this race is the most compelling athletic event in the world...
USE YOUR BIKE TO TRAIN FOR ANYTHING!
A USA Cycling coach tells how to use a road or mountain bike to become a better athlete in any sport---and how to get into the best shape of your life...
NUTS AND BOLTS OF MODERN PROTECTION
It's called "pro," short for protection. What you can trust your life to, when you're ready to purchase climbing gear...
INTERMOUNTAIN CUP RESULTS: SNOWBIRD
The record heat wave didn't let up in the mountains, it made the 'Bird a sweaty and toasty race. It was the final for Utah; the series now moves outta town...
ADVENTURE SPORTS by WINA STURGEON 7/9
Ski Utah's photo contest winner gets great swag...Godfrey gets vindicated...NASCAR comes to Utah!...Float your boat down the Jordan River...Flying Tomato does it again...Non-sporting thought...
WALL OF THE WEEK
Patrick Welch revisits a classic: Storm Mountain in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Nine bolted routes detailed, bet you never knew their names!...
INTERMOUNTAIN CUP
Two hot weeks, two burn-it-up races. Sherwood was rough-and-tumble from the start as riders pushed to their limits for points.
Solitude was anything but lonely for the large pack of racers. Desire made riders challenge single trails; no one played "follow the leader" Full results for both races...
ALL QUIET FROM THE TOUR
Yes, the Tour de France still makes the news...just not as much. Drug scandals will kill a career and an event. But this year's (hopefully) drug free Tour started off with a bang--from the crashing of bikes and riders in a pileup...
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: TRAINING IS WHERE YOU FIND IT
If you think the only place to work out is in a gym or outdoors on some kind of wheels, think again. If you know how to do it, you can train anywhere...
RAFFERTY'S RETURN
Ski Utah's head honcho went for a jaunt around Iran. He learned two things: it's an easy place to like, and the American media has it all wrong...
THE GREAT INDOORS
Climbing editor Pat Welch tells where to escape the heat with a review of the best climbing gyms around the Wasatch Front...
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