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Article Courtesy of Oregon Cycling Action. PORTLAND — Fellow racers, friends and family of David Oliphant remembered the longtime OBRA member who died June 8 with a silent lap in his honor Tuesday night at PIR. Oliphant’s brother Duncan rode at the front of the procession, which started the circuit in pouring rain and finished under [...]

Wenatchee, Washington native Tyler Farrar won the three day Delta Zeeland Tour in the Netherlands this past weekend. He left the race without a stage win, but was consistent enough to take the overall. Farrar has already won two stages of this year’s Tour of Italy and is on track to start the Tour de [...]

Trevor Kosa (Olympia Orthopedic Associates) and Jen Wheeler (Hagens Berman) took wins at the Tacoma Twilight Criterium Saturday night. It was the final stop on the Cascadia Criterium Series. Grant Boursaw (Gregg’s Trek) and Kele Murdin (Keller Rohrback) took home overall victories in the series.

From Oregon Cycling Action OBRA racer David Oliphant died late Tuesday evening after collapsing just past the finish line at the tradional PIR Tuesday Nighter races in North Portland. On-site medics attended Oliphant until paramedics arrived and rushed him to a local hospital, where emergency room doctors were unable to revive him. David Oliphant (right) [...]

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Jason Allen (Orbea-Rubicon) and Jadine Rolcik (Group Health) won the Brad Lewis Criterium on Sunday, the fifth race in the Cascadia Crit Series. Allen made a lead trio in the concluding laps with Mike Hone (Lenovo) and Russell Stevenson (Cucina Fresca) and outfoxed the others for the win. Grant Boursaw (Gregg’s) maintains his overall series [...]

Ian Crane (Hagens Berman) and Jadine Rolcik (Group Health) won the Ballard Criterium Saturday night. Overall series leaders Grant Boursaw (Gregg’s) and Jessica Cutler (Cucina Fresca) held onto their leads.

Jamie Sparling and Leah Guloien (Total Restoration) took victories in the final stage of the Mt. Hood Classic on Sunday, while race leaders Marc De Maar (United Healthcare) and Molly Van Houweling (Metromint) secured their overall titles. Behind De Maar, Michael Creed (Team Type 1) was 44 seconds back in second and Nathan English (Echelon [...]

Patrick McCarty (Matrix/Richardson/Bike Mart) won Stage 4 of the Mt. Hood Classic, finishing at the base of the Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Area. Race leader Marc De Maar (UHC) cushioned his overall lead going into the final day’s downtown criterium in Hood River. On the women’s side, Tayler Wiles (Primal/Rocky Mountain Colavita) won the stage [...]

Race leader Marc De Maar (UHC) and Holly Van Houweling (Metro Mint) won the 18 mile time trials at the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic today. De Maar increased his lead on the overall classification, with Bissell’s Paul Mach taking second and Team Type 1′s Michael Creed taking third. On the women’s side, Van Houweling also [...]