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• Stybar Outsprints Nys, van den Brand Beats Compton at Azencross

  30 December 08 • 1 comment

  The pro racers got in one last race of 2008 at the famous Azencross course beforeriders change teams and bikes with the new year. Americans had a good showing in Loenhout, highlighted by Compton’s silver and Powers’ 13th. Full report and results below. Gazet van Antwerpen Trofee #5 in Loenhout: Azencross Race Report by Bart [...]

• Stybar Grabs First Win at Diegem Superprestige

  29 December 08 • 0 comment

  by Bart Hazen of The Daily Peloton The sixth round of the Superprestige under the flood lights in Diegem was won by the champion of the Czech Republic Zdenek Stybar (Fidea Cycling Team). Stybar attacked early in the race and held off a chasing group of three riders for his first win of the season, [...]

• De Bie Wins Juniors at Zolder, U.S. National Champ McDonald in Sixth – Full Report

  28 December 08 • 0 comment

  Belgian Sean de Bie has won the third race of the Junior World Cup in Zolder on second Christmas Day. The young Belgian animated the race together with Dutch riders Lars van der Haar and World Cup leader Tijmen Eising. In the final lap Eising made some little mistakes and wasn’t able to sprint for [...]

• Walsleben Outkicks U23 Pack in Zolder – Full Report and Photo Gallery

  28 December 08 • 0 comment

  by Bart Hazen of The Daily Peloton German Philipp Walsleben continued his dominant year by winning the third race of the U23 World Cup in Zolder on the day after Christmas (December 26). The German was the best in a six-man sprint ahead of the surprising Italian Champion Cristian Cominelli and France’s Aurelien Duval. Kenneth [...]

• Vos Sprints to Zolder World Cup Win – Full Report and Photo Gallery

  28 December 08 • 1 comment

  by Bart Hazen of The Daily Peloton Multiple World Champion, Dutch Champion and current points race Olympic Champion Marianne Vos is back09 to winning ways in the cyclocross field. The 21-year-old, riding her fourth ‘cross race of the season, won the sixth World Cup of the season in Zolder by beating World Champion Hanka Kupfernagel, [...]

• Zolder Elite Men: Thijs Al Escapes Favorites, Descends to Victory – Full Report and Photo Gallery

  28 December 08 • 1 comment

  Dutch rider Thijs Al lives in the shadow of Lars Boom, but after winning his first World Cup and taking two of his last three starts, the muscular rider has shown he can’t be forgotten going into the world championship in his home country. by Bart Hazen of The Daily Peloton After the victory of [...]

• Slow Starts, Fast Finishes and Drinking in the Showers – A Column by Christine Vardaros

  26 December 08 • 2 comments

  Race reports from Scheldecross and Nommay World Cup by Christine Vardaros After a much appreciated weekend off from racing, I was back at it last Friday at Scheldecross in Antwerp, Belgium and followed it up two days later with a World Cup in Nommay, France. The actual racing went a little better this time around [...]

• Happy Holidays! Brief Report

  25 December 08 • 0 comment

  Did this guy make it to your house? Did you make his list? If you celebrate Christmas, we hope you’ve been good enough for him to have stopped by and cram lots of silk tubulars, spicy embrocation, fancy skinsuits and blingy carbon wheels into your stockings. If he didn’t? It’s okay, a short winter ‘cross [...]

• Lars Boom Nips Nys in Nommay – Full Report and Results

  21 December 08 • 0 comment

  World Champ Lars Boom and Sven Nys battled til the end in Nommay and settled the hour-long fight with a two-man sprint with Boom taking the win. Bart Wellens came in third, 22 seconds back. Three Americans (Ryan Trebon, Jamey Driscoll, and Molly Cameron) and three Canadians (St John, Schooler, Sutton) made the start,

• Compton Wins Nommay World Cup, Gould Third – Full Report & Results

  21 December 08 • 2 comments

  Five-time national champion Katie Compton (Spike Shooter) has continued her winning streak in Europe, winning the Nommay World Cup in France with a dominating late race attack. Georgia Gould, racing her first World Cup of the season, finished an impressive third. After Dutch rider Saskia Elemans got the holeshot, Compton wasted no time in getting [...]

• North Carolina: One Series Down, One to Go

  20 December 08 • 0 comment

  by Dennis Pike Salisbury, North Carolina – Another successful North Carolina Cyclo-Cross (NCCX) Series has drawn to a close with the final race of the year on Sunday, December 7th, 2008 in Salisbury. The NCCX Series has been going for over a decade and this year nine races were held at eight different locations and [...]

• The Return of a Child Prodigy and Yellow Clown Faces – A Column by Christine Vardaros

  17 December 08 • 1 comment

  Frankfurter Rad-Cross (UCI C2) – Frankfurt a/ Main, Germany, December 7, 2008 Two Sundays ago I raced at Frankfurter Rad-Cross in Frankfurt, Germany. Even with its UCI ranking, an event so far from Belgium should theoretically produce a low-key turnout, but instead I lined up alongside superstars like Hanka Kupfernagel, Pavla Havlikova, Sanne Van Passen, [...]

• Pauwels Upsets Nys and Boom at Vlaamse Druivenveldrit Overijse

  16 December 08 • 1 comment

  by Bart Hazen of The Daily Peloton The day after the fourth race of the Gazet van Antwerpen Trofee in Essen the cyclocross scene gathered together for the mother of all cyclocross races, the Vlaamse Druivenveldrit in Overijse. The surprise victory went to Fidea’s Belgian Kevin Pauwels.

• Trebon Triumphant! – New Photos Added

  16 December 08 • 7 comments

  

  by Jacob Sisson, photos by Joe Sales and Larry Rosa Kansas City, MO – Coming into Sunday, Kona’s Ryan Trebon had the longest odds he’s ever faced going into the national championships. Without an in-form Barry Wicks, facing a team of three powerhouse riders from CyclocrossWorld / Cannondale in Johnson, Powers, and Driscoll, and then [...]

• Compton Wins Record Fifth National Championship – Updated Photo Gallery

  16 December 08 • 4 comments

  

  by Jacob Sisson, photos by Joe Sales and Larry Rosa The elite women’s field had a shot at victory for all of 45 seconds, before Katie Compton (Spike Shooter) took over and crushed all of those hopes. For Compton, it marked her fifth elite national championship in a row, tying American legend Alyson Dunlap for [...]