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Laura Van Gilder Won't Stop Winning
She's one of the most successful cyclists in U.S. history. And she's done it her way.
Laura Van Gilder didn’t know what she was getting into when she bought her first mountain bike 30 years ago. Fresh out of college, she was working in her family’s restaurant and just wanted to get fit and maybe raise some money for charity. She started riding the roads around her Pennsylvania hometown. A few months later, she signed up for a charity ride for multiple-sclerosis research to honor her mother. She loved it. She tried a local mountain-bike race and was hooked.
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