For the primary time within the 31-year historical past of Leadville Trail 100 MTB, reside streaming protection will probably be offered for the legendary mountain bike race. Life Time Occasions, which owns the 100-mile mountain bike endurance check, confirmed that assist by Orange Seal will present 12 hours of protection, starting at 5:45 a.m. MDT on Saturday, June 9.
The reside broadcast might be seen on the official Life Time Grand Prix YouTube channel and Life Time Digital app, which begins quarter-hour earlier than the elite males begin at 6:00 a.m. MDT. The elite girls depart at 6:10 a.m. and different newbie fields between 6:30-6:50 a.m.
Life Time additionally confirmed that a number of cameras on the course and within the sky will proceed the stream uninterrupted for each elite males’s and girls’s divisions and post-race interviews.
“Leadville is exclusive in that it is an out and again race, so we’ve got to be very delicate to our automobile plan differently than we strategy Unbound [Gravel 200],” Michelle Duffy of Life Time Occasions advised media on a digital press convention Tuesday.
There will probably be 4 devoted motos heading in the right direction, two for the elite males and two for the elite girls, one helicopter, a drone and two stationary reporters heading in the right direction – Lauren Corridor at outward certain Powerline and Nat Ross at Twin Lakes/Misplaced Canyon.
“We face numerous totally different restrictions right here, from connectivity to tree protection. There’s two-way site visitors for women and men, so we need to be delicate to that. We have scaled again the digicam [operations] a bit right here, and are nonetheless assured in that plan.”
Meredith Miller and Invoice Ellison will present commentary from a studio for the race.
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Following the elite protection, a set end line digicam will proceed the printed via the 12-hour mark to seize pictures of amateurs finishing the occasion.
SBT GRVL professional races return to Steamboat Springs in 2026
SBT GRVL presented by Wahoo organisers confirmed that the favored Colorado gravel occasion will return to downtown Steamboat Springs for all three days of actions in 2026, together with a mix of rides and races on June 28.
Permits had been accredited final week by native officers with Routt County, the place Steamboat Springs is situated, after a contentious 2025 when the normal ‘Black Route’ for professional racing was changed by a circuit course 25 miles away in Hayden, Colorado.
Even with a modified course that was separated from leisure rides the day earlier than, a solid pro field took part in 2025 for a $22,000 shared prize purse, and a brand new $3,000 purse for an SBT GRVL Femmes group competitors. Melisa Rollins (Liv Racing Collective) out-sprinted two-time SBT winner Lauren De Crescenzo (Issue Racing Wahoo) for the elite girls’s win. Brennan Wertz (Scott Sport) used a late solo assault to win the elite males’s race, three-time SBT winner Keegan Swenson (Santa Cruz Bicycles) taking second.
Final week, county commissioners accredited a return to downtown Steamboat Springs on the ultimate weekend of June for a two-day expo, adopted by rides and races ending on Yampa Road on a Sunday.
“The tide has modified right here in Steamboat and we’re again to the muse that SBT GRVL® is understood for with a multi-day celebration in downtown Steamboat Springs,” SBT GRVL co-founder Amy Charity advised Cyclingnews.
“The area people has rallied behind us and we’re pleased with the collective efforts with the agricultural residents, metropolis, and county to discover a answer that creates a terrific expertise for our riders, companions, and permits us to maximise our optimistic influence in Routt County.”
Registration for SBT GRVL opens from October 14-31 this fall, with all rider confirmations despatched on November 5. Prior to now, SBT GRVL has bought out.
The 2026 occasion allow additionally allowed for a rise of rider registrations to 2,750, in line with studies in The Steamboat Pilot & At the moment. In 2025, participant numbers had been minimize to 1,800 for the rides held on June 28 in Steamboat Springs, whereas a separate allow was secured for races in Hayden. The modifications for 2025 had been made by organisers in response to considerations from native farmers and residents about public security.
Olivia Cummins and Lucas Bourgoyne dash to wins at Littleton Twilight Criterium
Grace Arlandson (Automated Racing) and Jim Brown (Golden State Blazers) received total titles on the new Gold Rush Omnium, a brand new one-week assortment of one-day races in numerous Colorado cities from July 29-August 3.
The signature occasion on August 2 was the Audi Denver Littleton Twilight Criterium, the elite titles received by Olivia Cummins (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY28) and Lucas Bourgoyne (Workforce Cadence Cyclery pb Encore Wire).
Cummings was a part of a seven-rider breakaway within the ultimate LIttleton circuits to journey throughout the end forward of Laurel Rathbuyn (L39ION of Los Angeles) in second and Kaia Schmid (Liv AlUla Jayco) in third, with Arlandson in fourth within the small group. Arlandson received two of her omnium races for the ladies’s GC.
“Profitable Littleton Twilight in a dash from a break of seven was tremendous particular. My teammate Anna Hicks set issues up completely, doing superb work early on to maintain the tempo excessive and canopy key strikes,” Cummins stated in a group assertion. I’ve had my eye on this race for a very long time – arising brief with second place the final time I used to be right here in 2021 – so to lastly take the win feels actually rewarding.”
The lads’s race additionally noticed an in depth dash of 4 riders, with the USPro elite males’s criterium champion edging Justin Williams (L39ION of Los Angeles) for the win. Brown, who had podiums in three different omnium races, edged Danny Summerhill (L39ION of Los Angeles) for third.
Twilight had turned to darkness for the boys’s race, with solely the ending straight below brilliant streetlights. 5 L39ION riders massed on the entrance of the race for the ultimate lap, and Bourgoyne managed to surge via for the victory.
“What an unimaginable time in Denver final week. Enormous shoutout to the Gold Rush Omnium for placing on an incredible collection. Racing at altitude? No joke,” Williams stated on social media in regards to the 4 days of races.
Elite girls’s race takes on extra distance and climbing at Bucks County Traditional
The professional girls’s race on the 2025 Bucks County Traditional has been lengthened for 2025, racing 50 kilometres as an alternative of 40km for the primary time in 17 years. Professional and newbie races happen on September 7 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Whereas 4 additional laps for the ladies could not sound vital, it provides greater than 106 metres (350 ft) of elevation acquire to carry the climbing within the criterium to 600 metres (2,000 ft). The identical eight-turn, 2.2km course will probably be used for the professional males.
The whole prize purse is $10,000, paid 20 deep throughout elite fields. Penn Medication Doylestown Well being professional girls’s race will start at 11:30 a.m. at Courtroom Road and Printer’s Alley, with the boys’s professional race scheduled at 1:50 p.m.
“As a hospital based by visionary girls and dedicated to advancing well being and wellness in our neighborhood, we’re proud to proceed our assist of the Bucks County Traditional’s Ladies’s Professional Race,” stated Jim Brexler, CEO of Penn Medication Doylestown Well being.
The Bucks County Traditional, based in 2004 as a males’s pro-am race alongside the Univest Grand Prix, added the ladies’s contest in 2014, with assist by Doylestown Well being, which offered the assist this 12 months to increase the ladies’s professional race. The races sign the unofficial finish to the summer time criterium season within the US, with the conclusion of the American Criterium Cup happening in St. Louis the weekend earlier than.
Final 12 months Marlies Mejías Garcia (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24) won the women’s event and Marcos Mendez (Rockland Growth) received the boys’s occasion. Skylar Schneider (now with SD Worx-Protime) has received the ladies’s race twice, whereas Eric Marcotte has essentially the most wins on the boys’s facet with three between 2012-2016.
