The life of 17-year-old US rising star Magnus White, who died in July when struck by a driver of a car as he trained for the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, will be honoured in the first film of a series launched by the non-profit The White Line Foundation.
The non-profit, started by White’s family and funded by donations to Magnus’ GoFundMe, which raised $145,190 as of this posting, announced they would launch a new film series called ‘Lives Worth Remembering,’ which will “pay tribute to fallen riders, celebrating the vibrant and dynamic lives they lived”. The first film in that series features the life, cycling career and impact on the community of White.
Magnus White was on a training ride near his home in Boulder, Colorado on July 31, preparing for the junior men’s cross-country competition at the Glasgow Worlds 10 days later, when he was struck by a driver of a car and killed.
A 10-minute teaser for the first film, ‘Lives Worth Remembering: Magnus White’ was made available this week on the YouTube channel for The White Line. The teaser begins with video footage of White as a small child riding a bike on a dirt path with his parents.
“Magnus loved to ride his bike. He always did. As soon as he could walk, he was basically straddling two wheels,” his mother Jill White is heard to say in the opening.
His father Michael White recounted that when their son was asked by a teacher ‘what do you want to be when you grow up, and you can’t be a professional athlete because everybody wants to be a professional athlete’, and he said that Magnus replied ‘you don’t understand, I’m going to be a professional cyclist’.
Magnus is seen accepting his US national championship jersey for men’s junior cyclocross in DuPage County, Illinois in December 2021. He would go on to compete at two UCI Cyclocross World Championships as a junior, finishing top 20 both times, and was selected to Team USA in 2023 to compete at the Mountain Bike World Championships.
“He’s forever a national champion,” said Michael White in the film about his son’s achievements.
A poignant clip in the film is from an outdoor camera at the White home in Boulder, Colorado, looking out to a short driveway and a street as Magnus rides off on his bicycle wearing a USA Cycling national team jersey. The screen caption reads, “July 29th 9:15 am, Magnus leaves the house for the last time”.
Magnus White did not return home. The 17-year-old high school…
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