What Is The Most Important Olympic Sport In The 2000's

One of the most important Olympic sports in the 2000’s was cycling. The reason why cycling was popular became because of the Lance Armstrong and his battle with cancer, yet continued to ride his way to many cycling medal’s and trophies. Before Lance, the history of cycling in the USA started in 1920 with an organization called Amateur Bicycling League of America. The organization changed to United States Cycling Federation, which merged with USA Cycling in 1995 to become one. Cycling has always been in the Olympics since the modern games in 1896. During the first Olympic, John Henry Lake was the first American to win a medal in the 1900 Paris games where he took bronze. From there, cycling took a huge leap and was considered America’s second favorite sport behind baseball. Many bicycling athletes were getting paid big money before World War II, but it behind to see a decline in the 50’s and 60’s.
One of the athletes that compete for the USA is Taylor Phinney, who is the youngest member of team USA at the age of 26. He has a long career ahead of his and he has an expressive resume to begin with. 2014 was the year of Taylor Phinney, where he won 1st in the Dubai Tour and Volkswagen USA Cycling Professional Road and won 3rd at the Amgen Tour of California. Taylor is on his
way to being one of the most memorable cyclists in the history of the USA and maybe in the history of cycling.
Like NASCAR or golf, cycling is a sport that relies heavily on sponsorships and athletes pick and find who they would like to have a label on them. The sponsorship is more like golf than NASCAR because they don’t necessarily have each part of their bike or outfit filled in sponsors. But bikers can pick a sponsor on their clothing and bike. The money of biking comes and goes from all the participants and sponsors.
Cycling is popular in many warm places, and usually with beautiful scenery.
Oregon and Colorado are one of the better states in the United States. But around the world without including the USA, many people suggest that Europe would be one of the better places to go for a bicycle ride. The country that I would pick to biking in would be a mix between France and Belgium because of the variety of environment to experience. France and Belgium are neighbor countries, so the area is very familiar between the two. The reason why I picked France first is because they have the international attendance, but if you drive away from the large French cities, they are filled with beautiful hills and
mountains.