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by Bart Hazen of the Daily Peloton Photos by Joe Sales Veteran Erwin Vervecken (Revor Cycling Team) showed he is back in top form for the upcoming World Championships in Hoogerheide on February 1. The multiple World Champion, winner of the Koksijde World Cup earlier this year, won with a slight advantage over Zdenek Stybar. [...]
by Bart Hazen of the Daily Peloton, Photos by Joe Sales American Katherine Compton impressed with an stellar one-woman show in Roubaix. Compton, who took her third World Cup victory of the season, won with a lead of nine seconds on World Champion and German Champion Hanka Kupfernagel. At 42 seconds Dutch Champion Daphny van [...]
By Bart Hazen of the Daily Peloton, Photos by Joe Sales World Cup winner Tijmen Eising (Revor Cycling Team) has won the final Junior World Cup race of the season in Roubaix. Belgian Champion Wietse Bosmans finished as second and American Zach McDonald as third. Eising was already winner of the World Cup after the [...]
We’ve got a blow-by-blow report of the men’s race at the 2009 Cyclocross World Cup Race in Roubaix, France. If you enjoy seeing the action lap-by-lap, be sure to tune into our live world championship coverage on January 31st and Febuary 1st, sponsored by Cyclocross World. By Jake Sisson 7:51 Good morning and welcome to [...]
Large fields and crowds were present today at the penultimate World Cup today in Roubaix, and in the end, two Americans stood on the podium. Erwin Vervecken (Revor) took home a big win for his new team by holding off a huge effort by Fidea’s Zdenek Stybar. Sven Nys rounded out the podium, finishing shortly [...]
Colorado Springs, Colo. – USA Cycling announced today the five athletes that were nominated to represent the United States in the elite men’s category at the 2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships on Feb. 1 in Hoogerheide, Netherlands. Ryan Trebon (Bend, Ore.), Tim Johnson (Middleton, Mass.) and Jeremy Powers (Hadley, Mass.) all earned automatic nominations to [...]
by Jake Sisson It is too early to say that panic has set in in the Belgian cyclocross camp, but already, members are starting to show their concern over the strength of their team, according to an ANP report. While it arguable that the Belgians have the best team going away on paper, their commitments [...]
By Jake Sisson EDIT: EXPLANATION OF NATIONALS SCORING It’s that wonderful time of the year where the cyclocross peloton splits off to it’s respective home nations and riders try to bring home what many feel is the most important win of their season. That’s right folks, it’s time for Nationals. For many nationals winners, they’re [...]
Day 2 of the National Championships in the European powerhouses presented fast, frozen racing, with major favorites prevailing with a few upsets along the way. The Netherlands Day 2: Lars Boom would be ashamed if he was not racing Worlds in his homeland without the national championship jersey already in the bag, but he wasn’t [...]
Day 1 of the European countries’ national championships saw many favorites reign supreme, with defending champs like Kupfernagel and Stybar retaining their colors and van den Brand winning hers back. See brief reports below, and stay tuned for more coverage on Sunday. Germany Day 1: Reigning National Champion Hanka Kupfernagel (Itera – Stevens) fought off [...]
By Jake Sisson So as I was trolling through results from this weekend, I originally intended for there to just be the two C1 races from this weekend that would count. As I looked closer at the results, I noticed that the majority of the world’s top talent headed to Tervuren for the Vlaamse Witloof [...]
By Jake Sisson As we gear up for the biggest week of the season for Fantasy Cyclocross, let’s reflect on the big week that just passed. If you happened to have this week’s all-star team (Nys, Stybar, Vantornout, Al, Pauwels, Walsleben, Kupfernagel, Ferrier-Bruneau, Compton, Vos and Lloyd), you’d have set a game record 538 points [...]
This is part of an ongoing series of national championships-related articles to get you ready for KC as a racer or spectator. You can view the rest of the series articles here. by Jake Sisson In an effort to most accurately predict who is going to win the shootout that will be the 2008 US [...]
Despite the fact that there were only two races to score points on this weekend, just about every record set in Fantasy Cyclocross was brushed aside. Alright, granted there are only 10 weeks worth of records set to date, but still, it was an impressive weekend considering how few races actually counted. Here are the [...]
Part II of our Weekend Preview. Part I is here. Sunday’s prestige promises tired legs and minds after the power-sucking sand of Koksijde, Belgium. After driving four hours to Gieten, the Netherlands, who will be at his best? You can count on some Belgian for sure. Superprestige Men The Superprestige will no doubt feature the [...]
fter weeks of having a busy weekend schedule, international cyclocross is taking a bit of an after-thanksgiving break, only offering up one major race this weekend. While those of us in America are recovering from too much turkey and stuffing, rather than racing in major UCI ranked races, the Europeans have a World Cup event [...]
by Jacob Sisson, Photo by Michael Franken Unfortunately for Todd Wells (GT Bicycles), his win on the second day of the Whitmores Landscaping Supercross Cup was overshadowed by the bad luck by two of his colleagues. Wells, however, performed masterfully in handily winning day two, despite having to work very hard to take the top [...]
by Jacob Sisson, Photos by Michael Franken Sunday at the Whitmores Landscaping Supercross Cup brought about slightly warmer temperatures than the day before, and the wind that had made spectating (let along typing live updates…) almost impossible, had disappeared. One thing that didn’t change was the hierarchy of the elite women’s race. Repeating an impressive [...]
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