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Gastown Grand Prix
The Global Relay Gastown Grand Prix is a criterium cycling race held in Gastown, the oldest neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The race is part of BC Superweek, a series of nine races held over 10 days in July in the greater Vancouver area. Founded by a local dentist and bike racer, Roger Sumner, in 1973, the Gastown Grand Prix regularly attracted professional riders from across the continent along with crowds of 20,000 to 30,000 spectators. Following an eight-year hiatus from 1994 to 2001, the race returned in 2002 as the Tour de Gastown, running until 2008 before once again stopping due to lack of sponsorship. On January 27, 2012, Global Relay, a Gastown-based technology services firm announced that it would be Title Sponsor and Operator of the race for five years through 2016. The 29th edition of the race took place on July 11, 2012. It featured the largest winning prizes of any criterium in North America, with $40,000 in total prizes, including $15,000 to ...
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Kirk O'Bee
Kirk O'Bee (born April 9, 1977, in Ada, Michigan) is a former professional road racing cyclist from the United States. He won two national championships – in 1997 the USPRO pursuit championship, and in 2001 the USPRO criterium championship. Doping In 2002, O'Bee was suspended for a year after testing at the 2001 US championship showed an elevated testosterone-to-epitestosterone ratio. O'Bee said the positive drug test "resulted from a special training regimen recommended by his coach, which involved dietary supplements and exercise." O'Bee was fired by the Bissell team on July 31, 2009, for a doping violation. On October 7, 2010, the United States Anti-Doping Agency handed O'Bee a lifetime ban for EPO usage. All results he obtained after October 3, 2005, were vacated. Major results ; 1997 : 1st – track pursuit,( National Pursuit Champion) ; 1999 Mapei - Quick Step : 1st – Hasselt-Spa-Hasselt : 1st – Lys Lez Lannoy : 1st – Dunquerke-Wacuhal (Espoir) : 1st – two ...
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Brian Walton (cyclist)
Brian Clifford Walton (born December 18, 1965) is a Canadian cycling coach and former professional road and track cyclist. His racing career spanned 18 years, racing professionally for North American pro teams 7-Eleven, Motorola, and Saturn. He represented Canada at the Pan American Games, Commonwealth Games, and the Olympic Games in 1988, 1996 and 2000. He won a silver medal in the points race at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Walton was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 2006. Walton is a former partner at Cadence Performance Cycling Center in Philadelphia. He now is the president of Walton Endurance. Major results Road ;1988 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Gastown Grand Prix ;1989 : 1st Overall Milk Race ::1st Stage 9b : 6th Overall Tour of Ireland ;1990 : 1st Stage 5b ( ITT) Tour of the Basque Country : 1st Stage 4 International Cycling Classic : 2nd Cholet-Pays de Loire : 3rd GP Eddy Merckx : 8th Overall Tour Méditerranéen ;19 ...
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Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the county seat, seat and largest city of Travis County, Texas, Travis County, with portions extending into Hays County, Texas, Hays and Williamson County, Texas, Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the List of United States cities by population, 11th-most-populous city in the United States, the List of cities in Texas by population, fourth-most-populous city in Texas, the List of capitals in the United States, second-most-populous state capital city, and the most populous state capital that is not also the most populous city in its state. It has been one of the fastest growing large cities in the United States since 2010. Downtown Austin and Downtown San Antonio are approximately apart, and both fall along the Interstate 35 corridor. Some observers believe that the two regions may some day form a new "metroplex" similar to Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Dallas and Fort Worth. Austin i ...
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Lance Armstrong
Lance Edward Armstrong (''né'' Gunderson; born September 18, 1971) is an American former professional road bicycle racing, road racing cyclist. Regarded as a sports icon for winning the Tour de France seven consecutive times from 1999 Tour de France, 1999 to 2005 Tour de France, 2005 after recovering from testicular cancer, he was later stripped of all his titles when an investigation found that he Lance Armstrong doping case, had used performance-enhancing drugs over his career. At age 16, Armstrong began competing as a triathlon, triathlete and was a national sprint-course triathlon champion in 1989 and 1990. In 1992, he began his career as a professional cyclist with the Motorola Cycling Team, Motorola team. He had success between 1993 and 1996 with the UCI Road World Championships, World Championship in 1993 UCI Road World Championships, 1993, the Clásica de San Sebastián in 1995, Tour DuPont in 1995 and 1996, and a handful of stage victories in Europe, including stage 8 ...
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Sacramento, California
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John McKinley
John McKinley (May 1, 1780 – July 19, 1852) was a United States Senate, United States Senator from the U.S. state, state of Alabama and an Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Early life McKinley was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, Culpeper County, Virginia, on May 1, 1780, to Andrew McKinley and Mary (Logan) McKinley (sister of Benjamin Logan). His family moved to Kentucky in 1783. There, he read law and was Admission to the bar in the United States, admitted to the bar in 1800, practicing in Frankfort, Kentucky, Frankfort and in Louisville, Kentucky, Louisville. In 1818, he moved to Alabama. He established legal practice in Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville, and also actively engaged in land speculation. Political career McKinley was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in August 1820. the next year he moved his family from Huntsville to Florence, Alabama, Florence, and so w ...
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Plymouth, Maine
Plymouth is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,325 at the 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 1,380 people, 537 households, and 366 families living in the town. The population density was . There were 615 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 96.4% White, 0.2% African American, 1.0% Native American, 0.2% Asian, and 2.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.6% of the population. There were 537 households, of which 33.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.1% were married couples living together, 9.9% had a female householder with no husband present, 6.1% had a male householder with no wife present, and 31.8% were non-families. 22.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.9% had someone liv ...
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Mark McCormack
Mark Hume McCormack (November 6, 1930 – May 16, 2003) was an American lawyer, sports agent and writer. He was the founder and chairman of International Management Group, now IMG, an international management organization serving sports figures and celebrities. Early life, education McCormack was the only son of Chicago publisher Ned McCormack. He graduated from the College of William & Mary in 1951. He earned his law degree from Yale Law School, and served in the United States Army. He played varsity golf at William & Mary, and qualified for the 1958 U.S. Open, but missed the cut. Business career After his Army discharge, McCormack worked as an attorney at the Cleveland law firm, Arter & Hadden. In the 1950s he helped organize one-day golf exhibitions for professionals around the United States. In 1960, McCormack founded IMG and signed golfer Arnold Palmer as the company's first client and later signed Formula 1 drivers Jackie Stewart, Peter Revson, and golfers Jack N ...
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee ( ), officially the City of Milwaukee, is both the most populous and most densely populated city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County. With a population of 577,222 at the 2020 census, Milwaukee is the 31st largest city in the United States, the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States, and the second largest city on Lake Michigan's shore behind Chicago. It is the main cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee metropolitan area, the fourth-most densely populated metropolitan area in the Midwest. Milwaukee is considered a global city, categorized as "Gamma minus" by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, with a regional GDP of over $102 billion in 2020. Today, Milwaukee is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse cities in the U.S. However, it continues to be one of the most racially segregated, largely as a result of early-20th-century redlining. Its history was heavily influenced ...
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Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Australia (28 per km2). Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west, and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Great Australian Bight portion of the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid north-west. The majority of the Victorian population is concentrated in the central-south area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, and in particular within the metropolit ...
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Hilton Clarke
Hilton Clarke (born 7 November 1979) is an Australian former professional cyclist. Born in Ormond, Clarke became a professional in 2001. He was introduced to the sport by his father Hilton Clarke, an Olympic cyclist, at the age of 9. Major results ;2000 :1st Stage 3 Tour of Tasmania :1st Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic ;2001 :1st La Mirada Circuit Race :1st Warner Center Grand Prix ;2003 :Tour of Egypt ::1st Stages 1 & 2 :1st Stage 2 Herald Sun Tour :1st Ronde van Zuid-Beijerland ;2004 :1st Carnegie Caulfield Criterium ;2005 :Herald Sun Tour ::1st Stage 7 ::1st Sprints classification :1st Stage 2 Tour de White Rock :1st Beverly Hills Cycling Classic :1st Round 5 Jayco Bay Series ;2006 :1st USPRO Criterium Championship :8th Overall NRC Individual Points Standings ;2007 :1st Saturn Rochester Twilight Criterium :1st Tour of Somerville :1st Kelly Cup ;2008 :1st Martin Luther King Criterium :1st, Del Mar Criterium :1st, LA Circuit Race :1st, Overall Del Mar Series Criterium :1st, ...
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