Vancouver’s Alison Sydor edged American Susan Haywood by seven seconds for to win silver in women’s cross-country at a World Cup mountain bike race held at Grouse Mountain. It was the beginning of a silver streak that continued with a second-place finish at the Tour de Gastown nine days later and another six weeks later at the cross-country world championship.
Sydor officially retired from competition in 2010, ending a career that included: four Olympic appearances, including 1992 as a road cyclist; three world championships; 11 total world championship medals, including a bronze in road cycling in 1991; 17 mountain bike World Cup victories; three medals total, including two golds, at Pan-American Games; two Commonwealth Games medals; two Velma Sprinstead Trophy victories as Canada's female athlete of the year; induction into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame and the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame.
