Author: Harold Dalton

REI Co-op announced Sunday night it will close its 162 retail stores nationwide beginning today because of the COVID-19 pandemic, President and CEO Eric Artz said in an email. The outdoor retailer will reopen March 27. “I believe that is the right thing for our community,” Artz said. “In fact, I believe it is our duty — to do all we can to help keep one another safe in this unprecedented moment.” All employees will be paid during the closure, Artz said. All online orders from REI.com will be eligible for free shipping, and customers who have questions about gear are encouraged…

Stage 7 of Paris Nice 2020 was the queen stage of this year’s race with a summit finish up the infamous Valdeblore la Colmiane – a beast of a mountain that climbs for 16.3km at an average gradient of 6.3%. This mountain also featured in the 2018 edition of Paris-Nice where it saw a rain-soaked Simon Yates take a commanding stage win. With a hard parcours straight from the start, and the Col de Vence early in the stage it was always going to be a tough race.

The unfortunate postponement or cancellation of major industry trade shows creates a significant loss for the bike industry, and other events may follow. Brands rely on these annual events to launch and showcase their latest products and innovations, and the media are eager to hear the stories behind them. At the core, industry events are the cultural glue, bringing people together and creating an atmosphere for authentic storytelling. The Global Media Conference is a live streaming event that creates an opportunity for brands to present their products to a worldwide media audience, and offers journalists – located anywhere in the…

With six climbs on the menu stage 6 of Paris Nice 2020, opened the door to the climbers of the peloton and gave them their first real chance to make some inroads in the overall classification. The final 20km had a savage cat 2 climb with some bonus seconds available shortly after. With the GC far from over and Nice looming on the horizon make sure you check out our highlights of the decisive stage of the race.

With the negative results of the third and final block of testing and the quarantine period now at an end, the Emirati team have decided to return to Europe. This observation period was necessary to be sure of non-contagion for negative riders and staff, and also to allow the time to show the positive results of the others. These measures were to protect the health of loved ones at home, fellow teammates and the wider cycling community. The cases that have proved positive in the meantime will remain in the UAE, where they will remain in the best of care in hospital.…

After consultation with the relevant authorities, The Union Cycliste Internationale and the Ville de Nice, the organisers of Paris-Nice have decided that 7th stage, finishing at Valdebore la Colmiane, will be the last of the race. This decision, taken as part of the fight against the spread of the Coronavirus, means that the final stage in Nice is now cancelled.

In response to the spread of the coronavirus the Hungarian government has declared a state of emergency. This prohibits the organization of mass events and makes it impossible to organize international events. As a consequence, the Organising Committee of the Giro d’Italia’s Hungarian stages declared that the Giro’s start could not be held in Hungary at the originally scheduled time. All parties have agreed that they are determined to work together to enable the Giro d’Italia to depart from Hungary at a later time. RCS Sport, having taken note of the international and national situation, announces that the date of the 2020…

This essay is Part Three of the Who Can Play? Race, Gender, and Bodies series. The introduction that follows below is the same for all five essays. One of my great academic mentors, who would almost certainly prefer to remain unnamed in this article, had a fundamental belief in common with me: that sports matter. But while we certainly cycled along the same roads, both metaphorically and literally, it became clear that we were approaching a similar topic from slightly different directions. Over five weeks in 2016, we explored these directions, with research conducted at Tufts and MIT. Here follows…