Author: John Meyer
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Bolder Boulder’s new start is all uphill for runners
BOULDER — The Bolder Boulder has had three finish lines in its 33-year history as one of America’s biggest and most celebrated road races, but it has had only one starting line — until this year.In a major departure from the course that had remained essentially unchanged since the first Folsom Field finish in 1981,…
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Lindsey Vonn escapes serious injury after scary crash
Vail’s Lindsey Vonn has had a number of close calls in downhill races this season, but she had a spectacular crash Wednesday while training in giant slalom at Hintereit, Austria. “I hit my head pretty hard and had to go to the hospital to get a CT scan,” Vonn said in a Facebook post. “Luckily…
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Armstrong returns pro cycling to Colorado
DENVER – Cycling icon Lance Armstrong and Gov. Bill Ritter officially announced plans today for an elite, seven-stage international cycling race to take place next summer. The Quiznos Pro Challenge will be the first pro cycling event of significance in the state since the Coors Classic, which ran from 1979-88 and gave a huge boost…
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outtherecolorado.com: Boulder seventh-grader summits 50 states’ highest points
Matt Moniz hiked to Mount Everest base camp in Asia and climbed the highest peaks in Europe, Africa and South America before he did his first Colorado fourteener last year — at age 11. So the Boulder seventh-grader established his reputation for precocity well before he and his father, Mike, tackled this summer’s project: reaching…