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.
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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.
White won the 2021 Junior 17-18 Cyclocross National Championships before going on to compete with the USA Cycling National Team for a full season of European Cyclocross racing. He finished out the 2022 season at the 2022 UCI Cyclocross World Championship in Fayetteville, Arkansas and represented the United States at another Cyclocross World Championships event in Jan. 2023.
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