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• Amy Dombroski Reflects on Her Zolder World Cup and Euro Racing

  11 January 10 • 1 comment

  by Amy Dombroski “World Cup”…the two words bring about those same butterflies as that angry  “Boy Sets Fire” song, the same fizziness of a hard espresso shot, the similar uneasiness of the scent of warming gel. It sounds like a big deal, eh, but it’s just another gun shot, whistle blown or red light changing [...]

• Belgian National Championships Elite Men Preview & Sven Nys Interview

  9 January 10 • 2 comments

  by Christine Vardaros Nys is Pre-Race Favorite With a Little Help from Mother Nature Back in October, when Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet-Colnago) placed ninth in his first race of the season and DNF’d a week later at round one of the World Cup Circuit in Treviso, it caused a ripple of concern throughout the cyclo-cross community.  [...]

• The Euro Experience – A Conversation with Zach McDonald

  5 January 10 • 0 comment

  by Jamie Mack Cyclocross Magazine has had the pleasure of talking to a few of the younger racers that attended EuroCrossCamp this year. As the camp winds down, I spoke with one of the camp veteran’s, Zach McDonald, almost a year after we last interviewed him after his break-out performance at the 2009 Roubaix World [...]

• Grand Prix Groenendaal – Bosman Takes Junior Win- Results, Brief Report, Photos

  3 January 10 • 0 comment

  by Bart Hazen Sint Michielsgestal, Netherlands – Danny van Poppel, son of (road) sprint legend Jean-Paul van Poppel, took the hole shot followed by Mike Teunissen and Yannick Eckmann. Gert-Jan Bosman had a worse start but in the second lap he made the jump to the front. A group of seven riders was formed with [...]

• EuroCrossCamp VII Diary Series – EuroCrossCamp Is in the Books, My Last Night in Izegem

  3 January 10 • 0 comment

  by Nathan Phillips “He was fairly happy, except that, like many people living in Europe, he would rather have been in America.” – Ernest Hemingway At the GP Sven Nys in Baal, I witnessed a new look in the eyes of a couple of random riders as they finished their pre-ride of the course. Defeat. [...]

• EuroCrossCamp VII Diary Series – Writing on the Wall and Breakfast with Els

  31 December 09 • 0 comment

  Montana State Junior Nathan Phillips has embedded himself in EuroCrossCamp to document the inner workings of the camp that has had a pivotal role in developing American cyclocross talent. Nathan’s second entry, explores the chaos of a cyclocross-race-laden week in Belgium and gives a taste of life in the pits. Missed day four? Read about [...]

• EuroCrossCamp VII Diary Series: Protected Riders

  30 December 09 • 1 comment

  by Nathan Phillips “Protected riders” is usually a term reserved for road racing and rarely ever mentioned in the same sentence as cyclocross. Today in Loenhout, however, I witnessed a prime example of how the members of the Camp here in Belgium truly are “protected riders.” Daylight hours are very short here in Belgium, so [...]

• The Euro Experience: A Conversation with Matt Spinks

  29 December 09 • 0 comment

  by Jamie Mack When the attendees of the latest Euro Cross Camp and the first list of riders nominated to the US Worlds team were announced there were, as should be expected, a lot of familiar names. From Compton to Van Gilder there were a lot of noted riders who would be representing US ‘cross [...]

• EuroCrossCamp VII Diary Series: Rest Day and Q&A with Josh Berry

  28 December 09 • 2 comments

  Montana State Junior Nathan Phillips has embedded himself in EuroCrossCamp to document the inner workings of the camp that has had a pivotal role in developing American cyclocross talent. Nathan’s second entry, explores the chaos of a cyclocross-race-laden week in Belgium and gives a taste of life in the pits. Missed day two? Read about [...]

• EuroCrossCamp VII Diary Series: Time for Little but Racing

  27 December 09 • 1 comment

  Montana State Junior Nathan Phillips has embedded himself in EuroCrossCamp to document the inner workings of the camp that has had a pivotal role in developing American cyclocross talent. Nathan’s second entry, explores the chaos of a cyclocross-race-laden week in Belgium and gives a taste of life in the pits. Missed day one? Read about [...]

• Killer B’s Swarm Nationals in Bend – UPDATED: Full Results

  11 December 09 • 0 comment

  

  There were four B races scattered throughout the day: three men’s and one women’s. The women got off to an early A.M. start and broke in the course for the slew of riders still to come. They definitely faced some firmly-packed but consistent course conditions and, relative to preceding days, a tolerable temperature hovering in [...]

• Štybar Makes it Two in a Row at Hamme-Zogge Superprestige – Updated: MORE Photos, Rider Reactions

  23 November 09 • 0 comment

  by Dan Seaton Hamme, Belgium – Buoyed by his first trip to the top step of the podium yesterday in Hasselt, Zdeněk Štybar once again grabbed victory at the finish line today in Hamme-Zogge.  On an uncharacteristically warm and sunny day for November in Belgium, the blustery winds that raked the open fields of the course [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors and Rumblings – November 11, 2009

  11 November 09 • 1 comment

  A couple important health updates came forward this week, as Sunweb-Projob loses another rider for next weekend and the swine flu hits the cyclocross peloton. Over in the states, a bit of a sponsorship mix up turns some heads, and Neils Albert gets into a bit of spat with fans in Niel. Neils Albert Draws [...]

• European Cyclocross Power Rankings – October 29, 2009

  29 October 09 • 1 comment

  Sure, the UCI has their own cyclocross rankings. And with the Superprestige, GvA and World Cup series with UCI points up for grabs and Europeans hitting all of these series, it’s hard to figure out who’s the best in Europe. Enter Cyclocross Magazine’s European Cyclocross Rankings, the first of its sort, determined by complex mathematical [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors and Rumblings – October 29, 2009

  29 October 09 • 1 comment

  Today, here a Pro Cyclocross Rumors and Rumblings Headquarters, we’re rolling out a new feature in the column, a mini-interview with some of cyclocross’ emerging stars and little known protagonists. First up on the agenda is RGM Watches – Richard Sachs – Radix’s own Dan Timmerman who’s made quite an impression in New England so [...]