SPORTS

Edwards resident Kevin Shields has been riding BMX bikes at a high level for a long time. The 57-year-old qualified to represent the U.S. at the 2023 UCI-sanctioned BMX world championships in Glasgow, Scotland, this August, 41-years after making his world cup debut in 1982. “It is an honor to...

Runner relationships typically percolate slowly over a shared understanding of training and racing, a shared hatred for mile repeats and side aches and a shared love for carbo-loading and team bus rides. How those friendships start? That’s a little less predictable. Chapter one of Sarah Hochtl, Chase Rogowski and...

The great Ricky Bobby once said, “If you ain’t first, you’re last.”. The new-for-2023 Pacifico Gore IV Raft Challenge had a little Talladega Nights feel Thursday in Vail as Cole Bangert and John Anicito’s “Shake N Bake” team took the five-second victory over El Chupacabra (Rob Prechtl and Quintin Cook) on the first day of GoPro Mountain Games action.

The Vail Golf Club is thrilled to announce the Operation 36 program, designed to restructure the way youth golfers learn, practice and play the game. Open to ages 6 to 17, this innovative program aims to provide golfers of all skill levels with an engaging learning experience that fosters growth, improvement and a deeper understanding of the game. Register now at operation36.golf.

Participating in league-play tennis used to require traveling through Glenwood Canyon. Stephanie Bee has changed that. “With the threat of mudslides due to the burn scars in that area and constant concerns over I-70 closures, I had a vision to bring ladies league tennis to the Vail Valley,” the coordinator of the all-new Vail Valley Tennis League stated. “My mission was focused on bringing together some of the exceptional tennis clubs we have right here.”

VAIL — It’s one thing to do a double backflip in front of a huge crowd at Solaris Plaza. It’s another thing to do a backflip and landing on a piece of fabric that is only 2 inches wide. Slacklining competitions are back at the GoPro Mountain Games after a five-year absence.

On Tuesday afternoon U.S. Ski and Snowboard announced its roster of 54 athletes who have been nominated to represent the U.S. snowboard team in halfpipe, slopestyle, big air and snowboardcross for the 2023-24 winter season. Among the hoard of talented riders on the list, seven call Summit County home. Leading...

After 22 athletes qualified for state at the team’s first gymnastic meet of the season, the Silverthorne Storm traveled to the Broomfield Flyers meet on Saturday, June 3, on a mission to get in a few more state qualifiers. The team only needed seven more athletes to qualify for...

If Steve Klehfoth could pick one place for Eagle County to have a permanent disc golf venue, it would be Maloit Park. “It’s got everything you want from a Colorado mountain course — the vistas, the trees, the tunnel fairways, the elevation, a little bit of water in play,” the former event director of the GoPro Mountain Games disc golf tournament said.

It was not that long ago when the only way to get down a mountain was on a pair of skis. Skiers used to dominate snowsports with no other competition and could have a ski day without having to worry about another “strange form” of getting down the slopes.

Ryan Huck found a love for being on the water in his teenage years, but after competing for fun in the GoPro Mountain Games Pacifico Down River R2 Raft Sprint in Vail last year, the 20-year-old is now pushing the sport in more ways than one. “It was really crazy,...

Perhaps the secret to Nicholas Fickling’s multi-decade running career is that his passion has never been anchored to the ethos of achievement inherent to sport. As evidenced by his remarkable 43rd place overall finish at Vail Recreation District’s Boneyard Boogie on May 20, where the 72-year-old finished the 13-kilometer course in 1 hour, 20 minutes and 46 seconds (a time which would have been good for seventh in the 30-39 age-group, by the way) he’d be justified to indulge in a little self-glorification.

On Friday, June 2, whitewater specialists gave the green light for this year’s whitewater competitions — including kayaking, rafting, fishing and SUP competitions — during the GoPro Mountain Games in Vail, Colorado, June 8-11. The stellar snow year in the Rocky Mountains, combined with colder temperatures and...

Vail Mountain School’s Haley Plumley and Logan Nobrega earned all-state first-team honors after top-10 placements at this week’s 3A state golf tournament at Aspen Golf Club. Plumley shot a 181 over the two-day competition on Tuesday and Wednesday to take eighth overall in the 84-athlete field and Nobrega tied for 10th with a 185.

Hitched to Bayli McSpadden’s World Cup mountain bike aspirations are intense, UCI points-chasing races sandwiched by lonely, long, arduous training weeks. Thus, coming home to race the Vail Recreation District’s mountain bike town series is more than just a mid-week speed session. It’s life giving. “This is...

Women’s raft (overall place, rider 1, rider 2, raceTT time) Men’s raft (overall place, rider 1, rider 2, raceTT time) Women’s SUP (overall place, rider, raceTT time) Men’s SUP (overall place, rider, raceTT time) Jeremiah Williams 00:59. Eli Gerstien 1:01. Scott Simpkins 1:07. Jim Callen 1:00.

As cars started to stream into the B&B trailhead parking lot off French Gulch Road in Breckenridge, thunder started to boom and rain started to steadily pour down from the sky. While many people peeled out of the parking lot after a jaunt on their bike, others exited the warmth...

After finishing the season as the 3A Western Slope League girls soccer champions, it’s perhaps no surprise that the Gore Rangers swept the end-of-season awards. Liv Moritz and Brian Sweeney won the league player and coach of the year awards, respectively, and Moritz, Stella Stone and goalie Frankie Marston were named first-team all-conference. Sydney Smith and Annabel Dorf were named to the second team.

Red, White and Blue Fire Protection District has been doing the Bike Rodeo for years, with the aim of giving kids the skills and know-how to ride their bikes safety through Summit County no matter what the wilderness or the neighborhood streets throw at them. Obstacle courses and special challenges await the kids with a deeper message.  It stems from knowing how quickly things can go wrong, and the tragedies that can come in those split seconds. "We have had some kids get hurt on Farmer's Corner, I remember at the 7-Eleven a few years ago," said Jackie Pike, deputy fire marshal...

Numerous current and former Ski and Snowboard Club Vail athletes have been nominated to 2023-24 U.S. Ski and Snowboard squads. Mikaela Shiffrin (Edwards, CO; Burke Mountain Academy/Ski & Snowboard Club Vail) headlines the women’s Alpine A team and is joined again by the up-and-coming Paula Moltzan (Prior Lake, MN; Buck Hill Ski Team/Ski & Snowboard Club Vail/University of Vermont). Shiffrin and Moltzan went 1-2 at the Semmering, Austria slalom in December, the first 1-2 World Cup finish for an American duo since 1971.