As of February 8, 2012. Ben King had attacked in the first mile of the professional road championship to spring the day’s long breakaway and was coming through the start/finish solo to start his second of three short finish circuits. As you might imagine, there's about a million iterations of every team name out there. The field, battered by heavy winds over the first half of the day, arrived to the lower reaches of the nine-mile, 2,800 vertical-foot Alpine Loop climb less than a minute behind an 18-rider breakaway. Winning the award was perhaps the easiest thing he did all year.“He’s a young kid and he’s not afraid to put everything out there on the line.”“He seems for a young kid to have a great aerobic ability to stay out there and keep pushing away. It’s a great result.”For every yin there is a yang and this year wasn’t free of trouble. Mairie de Rabou.JPG 1,180 × 835; 235 KB Maison piloti Brésil.JPG 2,048 × 1,536; 1.38 MB Marjal de la Safor, barana d'un camí de l'ullal de l'Estany.jpg 4,206 × 3,071; 2.25 MB The remnants of a late breakaway were erased 10km from the finish and David Tanner (Fly V Australia) set out on a suicide attack on the long climb to the finish at the Three Lakes Sno-Park.As Tanner faded in the steep final kilometer, Rory Sutherland jumped out of an elite chase group, drawing Tanner’s teammate Darren Lill and his own man, Marc de Maar. When the gap shrank to less than 30 seconds, Crawford jumped across to the leaders with Marc de Maar.Yellow jersey Levi Leipheimer (Mellow Johnny’s) didn’t react and the break held off the chase to the base of the finish climb of Little Cottonwood Canyon. I had to work a little harder on the climbs, but I stayed with them and that’s where I’m going to win.”“(Sagan)’s a super talented guy … He’s a neo-professional and already doing things in races like Paris-Nice”“He’s just a very, very talented bike rider and we’re going to hear more and more about him in the future. “I think the bottom line is that he deserved the stage win more than anybody,” said Leipheimer.The win – his first in the U.S. – came on Crawford’s last day of U.S. racing in 2010 and was a major breakthrough for the 27-year-old.“There are a lot of talented bike riders out there that for whatever reason aren’t able to shine as much as their talent portrays. Caleb Fairly broke through with a win at the Tour of the Battenkill in horrendous conditions. The easy tongued, hard as nails southerner became the youngest U.S. professional champion in the event’s 26-year history.King’s ride was one of those seminal moments that journalists look back to decades later. Cramps stung the 21-year-old’s legs on the sharp rollers in town, but he stood on the pedals, gritting his teeth in the 90-plus-degree heat.After 115 miles – 40 of them solo – King turned onto the finish straight for the tenth and final time and pumped his fist as he crossed the line for his third national title in as many months. Paragliding Simulator Online for PC, ANDROID, MAC. If you're currently looking at the His team was confident that the breakout rider of 2010 could deliver on the race’s biggest stage.When the break was caught 25km from the finish, Marc de Maar (UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis) and Matt Wilson (Gamin-Transitions) struck out on their own. The pair wound around Big Bear Lake and only a hard chase from the HTC-Columbia team of overall leader Michael Rogers could bring them back inside 1km to go. “I knew Levi was coming,” said Crawford at the finish. Resides: El Tiemblo, Avila, Spain. © 2020 Pocket Outdoor Media Inc. All Rights Reserved.An all-access membership to VeloNews for less than $2/week.Mark De Maar led Crawford on the lower reaches of the final climb.The women’s national championship road race — particularly the final 25km — was the most brutal of the domestic season in 2010. De Maar played the pursuit perfectly, countering Lill just before catching Sutherland, and freed himself 500 meters from the finish. Add to that day his solo wins in the U23 nationals criterium and road race, two U23 Pan-American titles and another long, lonely day on the front of the worlds road race in October, and King was an easy pick for U23 Rider of the Year. High realism of the flight dynamics and weather conditions, thermals and mountain dynamic, choose your take off all over the world! On the north, the terrain is arid and rocky. There were little known domestics like Andrew Talansky battling top international pros at the Tour of the Gila.