Hitting the Gravel

Paralympic cyclists Jamie Whitmore and Allison Jones extended their Australia world cup trip by a few days when they also participated in an RADL GRVL gravel racing event in and around Adelaide.

“To me, the appeal of gravel riding and gravel racing and even mountain biking is that you take cars out of the equations,” Whitmore, a two-time Paralympian who won a pair of world cup medals in Australia, told USParacycling.org. “And you get to spread out. When we go do this, we get to ride next to each other and don’t have to worry about moving for another car. We can just ride.”

Jones, an eight-time Paralympian in cycling and alpine skiing, and who won two medals in the Adelaide World Cup, had previously ridden in the original GRVL tour in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Read more about their Australian adventure here.

Aiming for Paris

Gabby Platt, who was still in need of a bike when she attended her first U.S. Paralympics Cycling camp years ago, is ready to make a run at the world cup team and the Paralympic team headed to Paris later this year.

“Right now I feel 100 percent motivated,” Platt told USParaycling.org. “I feel stronger than I’ve ever felt in this sport.”

First up for the Oklahoman is the U.S. Paralympics Road Cycling Open in April.

Read more about Gabby’s journey here.

Paul D. Bowker has been writing about Olympic and Paralympic sports since 1996, when he was an assistant bureau chief in Atlanta. He is a freelance contributor to USParaCycling.org on behalf of Red Line Editorial, Inc.

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