July 2008
BMX RAD NATIONALS, TRACK CALLED 'PREMIER'
More than a thousand BMX racers turned out for the ABA's Great Salt Lake Nationals at the RAD Canyon Track. Winners, plus what an ABA official said about the track's newly paved corners and news about indoor BMX training and racing...
ADVENTURE SPORTS BY WINA STURGEON 7/29
Find out what happened when Governor Arnold visited the Olympic Training Center near San Diego...China accused of trying to sneak ineligible athletes onto their Olympic team...Tara Llanes takes to commentating at the U. S. Surfing Open, and has some other surprises in store, including a meet-up with Steve Murray...Paul Hamm is off Olympic team...
NOT TRAINING FOR SNOW? YOU'RE LATE!
If you ski or snowboard, especially if you race or do the pipe, you should have started training a month ago! A personal trainer who specializes in ski racers tells how to make up time and get in shape for the season...
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR 7/22: THE ANTS ARE COMING
I have lived in a Utah ant-free zone for the past 20 years, unlike my former California home, where ants were an ungodly plague. But now the dry, empty lots around my home are filled in with new houses, and that has changed the local environment. Now the ants are coming...
WIN PRIZES! VOTE FOR 'BIGGEST BUTTHOLE'
Action sports stars are usually pretty cool. But there are a few buttholes out there. Vote for the biggest butthole, and win big. Best part: lotsa prizes!...
BIKES---FREE FOR A RIDE
It's big in Europe; now it's catching on in America. Bikes, free for anyone who wants to use them. Here's how to start a free bike exchange in your home town!...
ROLLER DERBY: REF HELPS BOMBERS WIN
The Bomber Babes took a big step toward defending their 2007 Salt City Derby Girls league championship on Saturday night, topping the Death Dealers 105-89 in a hard-fought battle. But a referee's mistake helped determine the final score...
SETS AND REPS: DESIGN YOUR OWN WORKOUT
Do you want big, bulging muscles? Or do you want the lean body of a runner? Or are you cross training for a sport? Here's how to design your workout to give you the body, and/or athletic performance, that you desire...
TROUBLE LOOMING FOR BEIJING OLYMPICS
Broken promises to international media; rising domestic citizen unrest; challenges to an authoritarian, dictatorial government---the 2008 Olympics may be less about athletes and more about outright violence between Chinese officials and the rest of the world. Read the latest details...
ADVENTURE SPORTS BY WINA STURGEON 7/15
Riders in the Tour de France just finished the hardest mountain climb of the race, but the hard part for organizers is that fans don't seem to care...Which player just got an 85 million dollar contract? Hint: you wouldn't think his sport has that much money...Charges of rape and kidnapping at Deer Valley resort...The only female Olympian on the Afghanistan team disappears...Speedo's LZR swimsuit called "technological doping," another company suing Speedo...Amazing way to find out anything about any city or town in the U. S...
PARKOUR: THE HUGE SPORT/NOT SPORT
You'll see them moving like ninjas or gymnasts and wonder, what's that about? It's called Parkour, and it's spreading all over the world. Is it a sport? Or is it just a way of making the planet your own personal obstacle course?...
YOU ARE WHAT YOU TELL YOURSELF
Are you aware of what you tell yourself in a race---or even in a workout? Are those faint, nearly subliminal messages, keeping you from reaching your goal or keeping you from winning?...
SALT CITY ALL STARS SMASH COLORADO
The all-star Salt City Shakers team, made up of skaters from SCDG league, earned their first win of the season June 12, topping the Colorado FOCO league's all-star team, the Kung-fu Donnas of Girls Gone Derby from Fort Collins, 135-91. It was a very hard-hitting game...
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR 7/9: TRIUMPH, HEARTBREAK, THE DRAMA GOES ON
It's been six years since the Olympics were in America; a hard to believe time span that now seems like another dimension. For me, that time began in 1995, with the momentous announcement by the IOC that the 2002 Winter Games would go to Salt Lake City and I became, again, an Olympic reporter. Oh, the stories I could tell!...
THE BASIN'S FIRECRACKER A SLIPPERY SUCCESS
"Look out, look out! Incoming!" The call echoed around Middle Bowl Cirque. The skier doing the slide-for-life on his back was laughing too hard to dig his boots into the snow to self-arrest. Snowbasin's second ever 4th of July "Firecracker" race was that kind of event. Hand timed, with ad hoc style points determined by the announcer, and hardly any recognition afterwards that the resort had pulled off something akin to a miracle...
TOP CYCLING COACH TELLS HOW TO TRAIN
Right now, Max Testa is training Levi Leipheimer for the Olympics. Another of his athletes, George Hincapie, is riding in the Tour de France. Testa, an MD who describes himself as a Sports Medicine Specialist, is considered one of the top cycling coaches in the world. But his advice is good for anyone on two wheels...
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