The USA Pro Cycling Challenge will be back in Colorado in 2012 for seven days of cycling from Aug. 20-26. Race organizers have already begun planning for the 2012 race, although host cities have not been announced.
Cities interested in becoming a host city must apply through an official Request for Proposals process beginning next month. [...] [...]
Cycling fans will be allowed to camp along roadsides of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge route up to 24 hours in advance in order to get a good view of the cycling competition.
The Colorado Department of Transportation added this one-time exception for those who wish to camp along the route, which mimics the spirit of [...] [...]
The 2011 Rocky Mountain State Games attracted a record 7,067 athletes — the highest number of athletes in the 10-year-history of the event — over two weekends in July and August.
About half of the athletes came in from outside El Paso County and represented 28 states. An estimated 10,500 spectators watched the events at 22 [...] [...]
The discs will be flying next July when Colorado Springs hosts the first U.S. Open, a major international competition and Ultimate disc convention.
USA Ultimate, the Boulder-based national governing body for Ultimate disc, and Colorado Springs Sports Corp will host the inaugural international contest July 4-8, 2012 at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
“We are thrilled to be in Colorado [...] [...]
Andy Bohlmann cancelled a Cycling Pro cross country mountain bike race this year because he couldn’t find enough business sponsors to back it. [...]
During the next two weeks an estimated 7,000 athletes are expected in Colorado Springs for the 2011 Rocky Mountain State Games, a multi-sport festival for Colorado and Wyoming citizens.
The games, in its 10th year in Colorado Springs and hosted by the Colorado Springs Sports Corporation, begin July 21 with tennis, but the opening ceremony will [...] [...]
The U.S. Women’s Open just missed its target goal in attendance to the seven-day event at The Broadmoor.
The final tally shows attendance at this year’s open at 130,485.
“We were trying to beat the record, which was set in 2005 and was 131,407 and we came in just shy of that,” said Becky Petro, 2011 U.S. [...] [...]
The Colorado Springs Sky Sox are nearly one-third of the way into their season, and so far it’s shaping up to be another home run — as far as attendance goes.
Despite playing a losing season so far, the organization is expected to break attendance records again this year.
Last year, the team saw a record 328,000 [...] [...]
The International University Sports Federation, the International Softball Federation and the Colorado Springs Sports Corp. have announced that Colorado Springs will host the 2012 World University Championships in Softball Aug. 2-11 at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.
The event is part of a schedule of 33 winter and summer World University Championships to be conducted [...] [...]
The rest of the nation knows Colorado Springs as a sports mecca, from the Olympics to mountain biking to ice hockey. Locals, however, may be unaware of the full extent of the city’s sports connection, from youth soccer to annual championships involving teams from around the world. This story gauges the economic impact of the [...] [...]
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