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• Mo Bruno-Roy Checks In After Worlds

  9 February 10 • 0 comment

  First off, Matt and I would like to thank each and every one of our friends, fans, families and sponsors for all of the support during our European racing campaign this January. We couldn’t have done it without you. Also, there are still tickets available for the MMRacing raffle! If you want to win a [...]

• Louisville World Championship Promoter Bruce Fina Talks about 2013

  8 February 10 • 1 comment

  Bruce Fina, who, along with Joan Hanscom, has worked to bring the Elite World Cyclocross Championships to Louisville, Kentucky, in 2013, as well as the Masters World Championships to Louisville for 2012 and 2013, recently gave an interview on the Belgian cyclocross.info website. “We’ve been working on this plan for a few years, and we [...]

• Two Months in Europe – A Recap by Amy Dombroski

  1 February 10 • 0 comment

  Amy Dombroski wraps up here ever-extending cyclocross season in style at the World Championships in Tabor, taking 14th. Read her Euro recap below and, if you missed them, her reports on the Hoogerheide, Roubaix, and Zolder World Cups.  You can replay our live coverage from Saturday and Sunday and find all of our reports and [...]

• Kevin Hines Shows the Belgians that Americans Can ‘Cross: Report from Masters Worlds

  1 February 10 • 1 comment

  Reigning US Masters 55+ National champion Kevin Hines wasn’t ready to hang up his cyclocross bike after Nationals in Bend, Oregon. Instead, he and Corner Cycle teammate Jonny Bold (current 45+ National champ) took off for Mol, Belgium to try their luck at going one bigger – they lined up for the Masters Worlds. To [...]

• Marilyn Ruseckas Recounts Her Worlds-Winning Day

  30 January 10 • 0 comment

  

  Marilyn Ruseckas led the US charge at Masters Cyclocross Worlds in Mol, Belgium. Americans brought home three medals, with Ruseckas claiming the top step and the World Championship rainbow jersey (Kevin Hines took a silver and his teammate Jonny Bold a bronze). Here’s her recap of the experience and the race.  And in case you [...]

• Skyler Trujillo – Ready To Take On The World

  29 January 10 • 0 comment

  by Jamie Mack Skyler Trujillo has been riding and racing his bike since the age of four, when he was introduced to the competitive side of cycling. Trujillo took a break for a couple of years, after racing six seasons before the age of 10, but renewed his interest as a teenager and started racing [...]

• A Pre-Worlds Interview with U23 National Champ Danny Summerhill

  28 January 10 • 0 comment

  by Josh Liberles Newly-crowned American U23 national cyclocross champion Danny Summerhill (Felt-Holowesko Partners-Garmin) has been racing straight through after winning his Stars n’ Stripes jersey. “After Nationals, I went home after a long stint on the road,” said Summerhill. “I’d been doing a bunch of racing, then was in Oregon from before the USGPs all [...]

• Meredith Miller Recaps Her First-Ever World Cups: Roubaix and Hoogerheide

  27 January 10 • 0 comment

  Meredith Miller (California Giant Berry Farms) followed up her 2009 National Road Championship in Bend, Oregon, with a silver medal at Cyclocross Nationals in the same town five months later–in only her second year of cyclocross competition. That result gained her a spot on the US Worlds team, and she now finds herself battling against [...]

• Czech Worlds Primer: ‘Cross, Beer and History from Tabor

  26 January 10 • 0 comment

  by Stephanie Chase With the upcoming World Championship races in Tábor, American fans will be sure to have a lot of questions, such as: is it still called Czechoslovakia? How the heck do you pronounce “Zdeněk Štybar?” And most importantly how do you say “beer” in Czech? (the answers are no, the Czech Republic and [...]

• Dombroski Battles to a Top-Ten in Hoogerheide

  26 January 10 • 0 comment

  Amy Dombroski reports after the Hoogerheide World Cup, her much improved acceleration out of the gates and her stellar, top-ten result. She continues her ramp-up to the World Championships in Tabor next weekend and looks to be getting progressively more comfortable in the intense Euro ‘cross ranks. In case you missed it, check out her [...]

• One to Go: Vicki Thomas Readies for Worlds

  25 January 10 • 0 comment

  

  Vicki Thomas checks in with another journal entry about chasing her ‘cross dream on the courses of Europe. Check out her last update about the huge transition from racing Masters Worlds last year to qualifying for the 2010 Canadian national team for Elite Worlds. One more to go. Nothing like the one-to-go sign for a [...]

• A Check-In With Ryan Trebon: Thoughts on the 2010 Worlds

  23 January 10 • 0 comment

  by Jason Elhardt It’s been six weeks since the crowning of a new National Champion in Bend, OR. While that means the end of the season for many, a few select riders have continued on toward the World Championships in Tabor, Czech Republic next weekend. With the entire US team lining up to test their [...]

• Jeremy Powers Ready For Worlds

  23 January 10 • 0 comment

  by Christine Vardaros While most cyclocross racers hung up their bikes directly after Nationals, Jeremy Powers (Cannondale/Cyclocrossworld.com) took his to Belgium to start the second half of his cross season.  After successfully completing two weeks of an intense racing period during Belgium’s infamous holiday block of events, he still didn’t hang the bike up.  Instead [...]

• A Late Season Southeast Cyclocross Tour – Journal Entry by Adam Myerson

  23 January 10 • 0 comment

  Elite cyclocrosser Adam Myerson (Cycle-Smart) has refused to say “die” to his cyclocross season after Nationals in Bend. Instead, he’s packed the car and headed to the southeast for several last hurrahs. This is his first post, about the GG Events ‘Cross Classic weekend in Samsula, Florida. by Adam Myerson I’m in Athens, Georgia finally [...]

• Compton Working Through the Cramps, Still Looking to Tabor – Updated: Hoogerheide Status

  22 January 10 • 0 comment

  by Jamie Mack [Update: Katie Compton, after pre-riding the course, has decided to skip the race and rest her legs for Worlds] Katie Compton has had the most successful season of her, or any American racer’s, ‘cross career. Compton won her sixth consecutive U.S. Cyclocross National Championship and has a pair of World Cup victories [...]