The Nissan UCI Mountain Bike World Cup concluded this weekend in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Quebec, Canada. Coming just one month after the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Val di Sol, Italy and weeks before the Beijing Olympics, the world championship event in Mont-Sainte-Anne is a stepping stone for some of the world’s top racers on road to the Summer Games.

The world came to Val di Sole, Italy, for a week of racing that crowned the World Champions in mountain bike and trials disciplines. Though touted as a popular summer (as well as winter) tourist destination in Italy’s Dolomite mountains, Val di Sole was anything but sunny as racers, fans and the media descended June 17-22.

Oakley’s Gee Atherton Wins DH. June 1st, 2008 will go down in mountain biking history as the day when one team, one family completely dominated a World Cup weekend. They’re a remarkable family of mountain bikers, but even in their wildest dreams the Atherton’s probably never thought they would have a weekend of collective success to match the one they’ve just put together in Vallnord, Andorra.

Matti wins arguable the hardest World Cup DH