An up-and-coming teen American cyclist who was a member of the U.S. National Team was struck and killed by a car while he was training for a race over the weekend, his team said. Magnus White, a 17-year-old U.S. athlete from Boulder, Colorado, was making his final training preparations over the weekend before his next race competing in the Junior Men’s Mountain Bike Cross-Country World Championships beginning on Aug. 10 in Glasgow, Scotland when he was struck by a car on a bike ride on Sunday, USA Cycling said in a statement confirming his death. “It is with an extremely heavy heart that we share the news that 17-year-old Magnus White has passed away in a training accident,” USA Cycling said.
It would be an understatement to say that Brendan Quick took over an organization in turmoil when he moved from his spot as USA Cycling's chairman of the board to the office of the chief executive in December 2021. Quirk wants all of that to happen, of course, but more as a byproduct of a sharpened focus on Team USA's elite athletes, the ones that will be competing over the next 10 days at the world championships in Scotland and the Paris Olympics next summer. “There was a period where I think the leadership here tried to become the signature cycling organization across America and the truth is that's not our mission,” said Quirk, who has held a USA Cycling license since the 1980s.