photo from corynrivera.com
Coryn Rivera continues to show American cycling fans just what she can do on two wheels.
Her latest victory, considered the biggest win in her young cycling career, is topping stage five of the Cascade Cycling Classic in Bend, Oregon. How big is her win? She just outsprinted five-time US national criterium champion Tina Pic and Australian Kristy Broun.
In her article on First Edition Cycling News at cyclingnews.com, Kirsten Robbins writes:
Coryn, from California, is a 23-time US junior national champion in a multitude of disciplines; road, time trial, track and cyclo-cross. She began racing when she was six years old, encouraged by her father, Wally, and mother, Lina, both Filipinos, who started her riding tandem with them, together, until she was big enough to rider her own bike.
Robbins also quotes Coryn thus:
“Cycling, to me, isn’t a sport, it isn’t a hobby, it isn’t an interest. Cycling, to me, is a passion… And where passion comes from, there is no pain, there is no suffering, but only the love of pain and suffering. And a passion is something you never quit, you never forget, and something you will always love. A passion is forever, cycling is forever.”
Coryn will be part of the US national team that will compete in the junior world championships time trial and road race on August 7-9 in Moscow, Russia.
Will she ever don the colors of her parents’ native land in an international cycling competition? Perhaps that is a question for local cycling authorities to think seriously about.
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