Cycling
2015 Iron Horse champion adds a national title
The summer of 2015 may end up being the summer of Keegan Swirbul.
The 19-year-old from El Jebel followed up his win in the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic road race by claiming the 2015 USA Cycling Amateur Road National Championships U23 road race title Wednesday in Lake Tahoe, California.
Swirbul outsprinted a 10-man pack in the final 100 yards after Greg Daniel of Denver led for most of the race.
The 104-mile course traced the Sierraville Loop west of Reno, Nevada.
Kelly Catlin from Arden Hills, Minnesota won the women’s U23 title.
The championships will continue with junior road races Thursday, time trials Friday and Saturday and criteriums Sunday.
Durango Herald
Police protest threatens to disturb Tour de France
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Dutch police campaigning for better working conditions said they plan to interrupt the Tour de France as it passes through the port city of Rotterdam.
Police unions said Wednesday they will carry out a symbolic traffic check of the convoy of advertising vehicles that moves along the route ahead of the riders.
The unions say in a statement that the protest will stop only when live television coverage “has made clear that the riders in the Tour de France are standing still because police are campaigning for better conditions.”
The three-week Tour will start July 4 with an individual time trial in the Dutch city of Utrecht and will pass through Rotterdam the following day.
Hotel policy forced Froome to miss a drug test
PARIS – Former Tour de France champion Chris Froome revealed Wednesday he missed a drug test this year while taking a couple of days off in Italy with his wife.
Froome said he missed the test while staying at an exclusive hotel during a recovery period.
“Yes, I have missed a drug test,” he said in a phone interview. “The first morning we were down there, the authorities showed up at seven o’clock in the morning and the hotel wouldn’t give them access to our room. They also refused to let them call up to the room.”
The 2013 Tour champion has never failed a doping test and last year criticized the lack of out-of-competition tests before cycling’s biggest race.
College Baseball
Virginia doesn’t allow a repeat for Vanderbilt
OMAHA, Neb. – Pavin Smith homered and drove in three runs, and Brandon Waddell turned in another strong College World Series pitching performance, leading Virginia over Vanderbilt 4-2 for the school’s first baseball national championship.
The Cavaliers (44-24) prevailed in the CWS finals rematch against the defending champion Commodores and brought the Atlantic Coast Conference its first title in baseball since Wake Forest in 1955.
NHL
The Price was right for league’s best goalie
LAS VEGAS – Carey Price came away from the NHL Awards show with a hat trick.
The Montreal Canadiens’ record-setting goalie claimed the Hart Trophy, the Vezina Trophy and the Ted Lindsay Award.
Price also shared the already-announced Jennings Trophy with Chicago goalie Corey Crawford, but his hefty haul of hardware capped one of the greatest regular seasons for a goalie in NHL history.
Price led the league with 44 victories, a 1.96 goals-against average and a .933 save percentage, becoming the first goalie to take all three top spots since Chicago’s Ed Belfour in 1991.
Associated Press
