2nd PLACE SPORTS FEATURE: Doug Graham, Loudon Now—Artist paints bicycle racers as they zoom past at the Air Force Association Cycling ClassicÕs Clarendon Cup. The pro race is part of USA Cycling’s National Criterium Calendar, and has been the Washington DC region’s premier Pro/Am race since 1998. The Clarendon Cup is known as one of the most difficult criterium races in the USA, due to technical demands of the course and the quality of the participants.