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Christian Vande Veld Wins USA Pro Challenge

The finale of the USA Pro Challenge came down to the wire in Denver on Sunday. In the end American cyclist Christian Vande Veld won the seven day stage race beating out two other Americans by just 21 seconds.

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KUNC’s Bente Birkeland has more on the race.

Bente Birkeland is an award-winning journalist who joined Colorado Public Radio in August 2018 after a decade of reporting on the Colorado state capitol for the Rocky Mountain Community Radio collaborative and KUNC. In 2017, Bente was named Colorado Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and she was awarded with a National Investigative Reporting Award by SPJ a year later.
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