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http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_7566275:
Shock over death of pro mountain biker Janelle
By Scott Willoughby
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 11/27/2007 12:05:47 AM MST
Mike Janelle was a three-time Race Across America
team champion and just a month ago won the 24
Hours of Moab with his teammate Nat Ross. (Scott
Willoughby, The Denver Post )Three-time Race
Across America team champion and all-around
Colorado cycling marvel Mike Janelle died
abruptly of an apparent heart attack at his home
in Avon early Friday morning. An autopsy is
underway to determine the exact cause of death to
the 40-year-old pro mountain bike racer and Tokyo
Joe's/Gary Fisher team rider.
"Everyone is completely shocked," said longtime
friend and riding companion Kelli Anthony Rohrig.
Only a month earlier, Janelle and teammate Nat
Ross had won the two-man team division of the
grueling 24 Hours of Moab endurance mountain bike
race.
A professional mountain bike racer since 1996 and
elite road cyclist since 1988, Janelle focused
primarily on endurance mountain bike events,
representing the U.S. at
the UCI world marathon championships in 2005, the
same year he won his first 24 Hours of Moab event
with teammate Jay Henry of Vail. He finished
fifth at the USA Cycling marathon national
championships won by Henry in Breckenridge on
July 4 and was an equally strong competitor on a
road bike.
Janelle was considered a driving force behind
Team Beaver Creek-Catlin, racing alongside
friends Ross, Jimi Mortensen and Zach Bingham to
a third consecutive victory in the four-man team
category of the 3,000-mile Race Across America in
June.
Known for his wide smile, charisma and dedication
to cycling, Janelle worked as a ski instructor at
Beaver Creek Resort in the winter, regularly
riding his bike to work.
"He just loved to be on a bike," Rohrig said.
Born of Native American descent in Chickasha,
Okla., Janelle spent most of his life in
Colorado, living in Eagle County for 23 years.
His wife, Mirabel, is currently pregnant with the
couple's first child.
Friends and family held a memorial service in
Janelle's honor at the Vilar Center at Beaver
Creek on Monday night.
Scott Willoughby: 303-954-1993 or
[email protected]
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Mike
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_7566275:
Shock over death of pro mountain biker Janelle
By Scott Willoughby
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 11/27/2007 12:05:47 AM MST
Mike Janelle was a three-time Race Across America
team champion and just a month ago won the 24
Hours of Moab with his teammate Nat Ross. (Scott
Willoughby, The Denver Post )Three-time Race
Across America team champion and all-around
Colorado cycling marvel Mike Janelle died
abruptly of an apparent heart attack at his home
in Avon early Friday morning. An autopsy is
underway to determine the exact cause of death to
the 40-year-old pro mountain bike racer and Tokyo
Joe's/Gary Fisher team rider.
"Everyone is completely shocked," said longtime
friend and riding companion Kelli Anthony Rohrig.
Only a month earlier, Janelle and teammate Nat
Ross had won the two-man team division of the
grueling 24 Hours of Moab endurance mountain bike
race.
A professional mountain bike racer since 1996 and
elite road cyclist since 1988, Janelle focused
primarily on endurance mountain bike events,
representing the U.S. at
the UCI world marathon championships in 2005, the
same year he won his first 24 Hours of Moab event
with teammate Jay Henry of Vail. He finished
fifth at the USA Cycling marathon national
championships won by Henry in Breckenridge on
July 4 and was an equally strong competitor on a
road bike.
Janelle was considered a driving force behind
Team Beaver Creek-Catlin, racing alongside
friends Ross, Jimi Mortensen and Zach Bingham to
a third consecutive victory in the four-man team
category of the 3,000-mile Race Across America in
June.
Known for his wide smile, charisma and dedication
to cycling, Janelle worked as a ski instructor at
Beaver Creek Resort in the winter, regularly
riding his bike to work.
"He just loved to be on a bike," Rohrig said.
Born of Native American descent in Chickasha,
Okla., Janelle spent most of his life in
Colorado, living in Eagle County for 23 years.
His wife, Mirabel, is currently pregnant with the
couple's first child.
Friends and family held a memorial service in
Janelle's honor at the Vilar Center at Beaver
Creek on Monday night.
Scott Willoughby: 303-954-1993 or
[email protected]
--
I am working on creating wildlife habitat that is off-limits to
humans ("pure habitat"). Want to help? (I spent the previous 8
years fighting auto dependence and road construction.)
Please don't put a cell phone next to any part of your body that you are fond of!
http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande