JKOMRacer
07-11-2007, 08:07 PM
Whether you’re a veteran cycling fan or just looking to take in the jaw dropping spectacle of professional mountain bike racing, with its big air, high speeds, tight passes and colorful crashes, The Canyons Resort is the place to be on Sat., Aug. 4.
The Jeep® King of the Mountain Series (www.jeepsports.com), will kick off the 2007 Mountain Biking World Professional Championships in high style, with 16 of the world’s elite athletes battling shoulder-to-shoulder in mountain-cross format for a share of the richest cash payout in the sport, topping $100,000, and the keys to a new 2008 Jeep Liberty.
The event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 3 p.m. and includes action-packed racing and an interactive expo village. Paul Mitchell will host a cut-a-thon to accompany numerous giveaways throughout the race by various sponsors. The post-race awards ceremony starts at 5:30 p.m. at the Canyons Plaza with a live concert by the Supersuckers and Bonepony following at 6 p.m.
World Professional Champions are crowned based on a system of cumulative points earned throughout the Jeep King of the Mountain Series, which will include three races to be held from August to September 2007. In addition to the race at The Canyons, the season includes Sat., Aug. 18 at the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, Calif., and Sat., Sept. 1 at Beaver Creek Resort in Beaver Creek, Colo.
Converging at the Canyons Resort will be the biggest names in the sport, including two-time defending World Professional Champions and reigning World Cup Champions Michal Prokop of the Czech Republic and Jill Kintner of Seattle, Wash. They will be joined by a bevy of contenders, including standouts Brian Lopes and Wade Bootes on the men’s side and Tara Llanes and Melissa Buhl on the women’s side.
In addition to an elite field of pre-qualified national and international professional racers, each event will add two local racers as well as two wildcard participants based on UCI and NORBA standings. Information regarding local and wild-card entry into the Jeep King of the Mountain Series will be available at www.jeepsports.com prior to each race.
This year’s event will again be staged on the innovative Y-Cross racecourse, which combines the two most dramatic and popular forms of mountain bike racing into one unique discipline. Competitors begin the race on separate sides of the course (the prongs of the Y) before converging midway into a single course (the crux of the Y). In the bottom section, racers must navigate a series of banked turns, tabletops, step-down jumps and rollers before the track climaxes with an all-out sprint to the finish. The daredevil racecourse has been described as the ultimate format for mountain bike racing, as the overall winners must have a diverse set of skills to win the coveted title of World Professional Champion.
Each race of the 2007 Mountain Biking World Professional Championships will be televised to a national broadcast audience on CBS Sports, representing the most expansive coverage of professional mountain bike racing in recent history.
About the Jeep King of the Mountain Series
The Jeep King of the Mountain was established in 1993. Jeep is the title sponsor for the Jeep King of the Mountain Series. The Mountain Biking World Professional Championships are the sister competition to wintertime’s Skiing & Snowboarding World Professional Championships, now celebrating its 15th season. Other marketing partners for the Jeep King of the Mountain include Bike Magazine, Columbia Sportswear Company, Edge Advanced Shave Gel, John Paul Mitchell Systems, Madonna Inn, Nalgene, San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce, San Luis Obispo County Visitors Bureau, Utah Sports Commission and Voler. During each race of the World Professional Championships, the athletes will be competing for the right to don the coveted John Paul Mitchell Systems black leader’s jersey, while also accruing points toward a cash bonus at season’s end.
The Jeep® King of the Mountain Series (www.jeepsports.com), will kick off the 2007 Mountain Biking World Professional Championships in high style, with 16 of the world’s elite athletes battling shoulder-to-shoulder in mountain-cross format for a share of the richest cash payout in the sport, topping $100,000, and the keys to a new 2008 Jeep Liberty.
The event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 3 p.m. and includes action-packed racing and an interactive expo village. Paul Mitchell will host a cut-a-thon to accompany numerous giveaways throughout the race by various sponsors. The post-race awards ceremony starts at 5:30 p.m. at the Canyons Plaza with a live concert by the Supersuckers and Bonepony following at 6 p.m.
World Professional Champions are crowned based on a system of cumulative points earned throughout the Jeep King of the Mountain Series, which will include three races to be held from August to September 2007. In addition to the race at The Canyons, the season includes Sat., Aug. 18 at the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, Calif., and Sat., Sept. 1 at Beaver Creek Resort in Beaver Creek, Colo.
Converging at the Canyons Resort will be the biggest names in the sport, including two-time defending World Professional Champions and reigning World Cup Champions Michal Prokop of the Czech Republic and Jill Kintner of Seattle, Wash. They will be joined by a bevy of contenders, including standouts Brian Lopes and Wade Bootes on the men’s side and Tara Llanes and Melissa Buhl on the women’s side.
In addition to an elite field of pre-qualified national and international professional racers, each event will add two local racers as well as two wildcard participants based on UCI and NORBA standings. Information regarding local and wild-card entry into the Jeep King of the Mountain Series will be available at www.jeepsports.com prior to each race.
This year’s event will again be staged on the innovative Y-Cross racecourse, which combines the two most dramatic and popular forms of mountain bike racing into one unique discipline. Competitors begin the race on separate sides of the course (the prongs of the Y) before converging midway into a single course (the crux of the Y). In the bottom section, racers must navigate a series of banked turns, tabletops, step-down jumps and rollers before the track climaxes with an all-out sprint to the finish. The daredevil racecourse has been described as the ultimate format for mountain bike racing, as the overall winners must have a diverse set of skills to win the coveted title of World Professional Champion.
Each race of the 2007 Mountain Biking World Professional Championships will be televised to a national broadcast audience on CBS Sports, representing the most expansive coverage of professional mountain bike racing in recent history.
About the Jeep King of the Mountain Series
The Jeep King of the Mountain was established in 1993. Jeep is the title sponsor for the Jeep King of the Mountain Series. The Mountain Biking World Professional Championships are the sister competition to wintertime’s Skiing & Snowboarding World Professional Championships, now celebrating its 15th season. Other marketing partners for the Jeep King of the Mountain include Bike Magazine, Columbia Sportswear Company, Edge Advanced Shave Gel, John Paul Mitchell Systems, Madonna Inn, Nalgene, San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce, San Luis Obispo County Visitors Bureau, Utah Sports Commission and Voler. During each race of the World Professional Championships, the athletes will be competing for the right to don the coveted John Paul Mitchell Systems black leader’s jersey, while also accruing points toward a cash bonus at season’s end.