Mountain Biking

Tough luck found Howard Grotts at the Olympics. The 23-year-old from Durango finished 38th out of 49 competitors in the cross-country mountain bike race Sunday on the final day of the 2016 Summer...

RIO DE JANEIRO Jenny Rissveds found another gear going up the first long hill of the last lap of the women’s Olympic mountain bike race. By the time she started her descent, the Swedish cyclist had...

One day after winning one of the biggest ultra-endurance mountain bike races in the world, Todd Wells added on six more stages. Wells, 40, backed up his third-career win at the Leadville Trail 100...

Fifty men will pull up in the starting gate for the Olympic cross-country mountain bike race Sunday. Only one will be from the United States, and he is from Durango. Howard Grotts, 23, is the only...

RIO DE JANEIRO World road race champion Peter Sagan is switching gears at the Olympics. He’s also realistic about his chances on the mountain bike. “Technically, I am not bad. I am not here to...

Howard Grotts is used to juggling complex equations. But to reach the Olympics, the only number that mattered was one. One spot. That’s all the United States had for it’s men’s mountain biking team...

More than 1,000 mountain bikers set out to conquer 100 miles at the 2016 Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike race. For the third time, nobody was as fast as Durango’s Todd Wells. Wells, 40, rode in...

For 30 years, Gudrun “Gudy” Gaskill worked to make the Colorado Trail a reality, raising money, recruiting volunteers and cutting some trail herself. Her work led to the nickname “Mother of the...

With the Olympics in sight, Durango’s Howard Grotts got a warmup to the big event by taking 30th in the UCI Cross-Country Mountain Bike World Cup at Mont-Sante-Anne, Quebec, Canada. Grotts finished...

Durango Devo has given many children their first taste of cycling, and Olympian Howard Grotts was no different. Grotts, 23, is the only American men’s mountain biker on the Olympic team for the...

Howard Grotts is not a typical Olympian. He’s Durango’s Olympian. Grotts was born and raised in Durango, the perfect playground to produce a world-class mountain biker. But the 2010 Durango High...