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  • Telenet Fidea Makes Plans for CLIF Bar CrossVegas – Wellens Returns in 2013

    Christian Helmig grabs the money at CrossVegas 2012. ©Thomas van Bracht / Cyclocross Magazine

    LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – Telenet Fidea announced tentative plans for what has become an annual September trip to Las Vegas for CrossVegas.  Returning to compete in the largest cyclocross race outside of Europe will be two-time World Champion Bart Wellens.  Joining Wellens will be teammates Wout van Aert and Quinten Hermans.  Van Aert earned a [...]

  • Sven Nys Cements His Legacy with Second World Championship Title – Updated: Full Results, Photo Galleries, Video Interviews

    Sven Nys wins his second Elite World Championship over Klas Vantornout in Louisville, KY. © Nathan Hofferber

    by David Evans LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – In front of a raucous, cheering international crowd that thundered and roared, 36-year-old Sven Nys (Belgium) cemented his position as a living legend of cyclocross by winning his second World Championship title on a Kentucky flood plain. A second rainbow jersey has long frustrated the Belgian hero, to the [...]

  • Belgian Worlds Team Announced – Meeusen Out, Wellens In

    Last year, the Belgians swept the top seven spots ©Cyclocross Magazine

    Unless Kevin Pauwels wrests the World Cup title from Niels Albert, thus opening up an additional slot, there were six spots up for grabs on the Belgian Worlds team, along with Albert’s automatic inclusion as the reigning World Champion. With far more than six of the world’s top cyclocrossers residing in Belgium, there may have [...]

  • Aernouts, van Paassen take Mid-Week Wins at Nacht van Woerden

    by Bart Hazen Bart Aernouts (AA Drink) and Sanne van Paassen (Rabobank) have won the international cyclo cross in Woerden. In the late evening race, Aernouts attacked from the start with Bart Wellens (Telenet-Fidea) and Dieter Vanthourenhout (BKCP-Powerplus). Lars van der Haar (Rabobank) crashed hard and had to chase all the way but finished in [...]

  • Cyclocross Bosduin Kalmthout: Nys Again Bests Albert as Van der Haar Shows He’s Ready to Play

    KALMTHOUT, BELGIUM – In a finishing sprint that almost perfectly mirrored yesterday’s finish at GP Neerpelt, Belgian Champion Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet-Euphony) bested World Champion Niels Albert  (BKCP-Powerplus) at the line. Straying from yesterday’s script was the inclusion of Tom Meeusen (Telenet-Fidea) who, after looking ready to crack from the lead group of six riders, managed [...]

  • Race Preview: Europe’s Best Line up at Kalmthout for Vlaamse Industrieprijs Bosduin

    EuroCross fans rejoice! This weekend, in Kalmthout, Belgium, your favorite old-world racers are back to test their legs at the first classic cyclocross race of the season: the Vlaamse Industrieprijs Bosduin. Nys. Albert. Pauwels. Meeusen. Mourey. Wasleben. They’re back, and ready to give us all some exciting racing in what is sure to be a [...]

  • Series Preview: The USGP of Cyclocross Kicks Off at Sun Prarie’s Planet Bike Cup

    The podium at USGP Sun Prairie: Trebon, Wellens and Powers Amy Dykema

    As the dust settles from the stampede that was CrossVegas, ’cross fans won’t need to wait long for the next battle: the 2012 TREK USGP of Cyclocross kicks off this weekend with the Planet Bike Cup: two days of Elite and amateur racing in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. While those not racing the USGP boogied down in Vegas [...]

  • Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of Friday the 13th (July 2012)

    Todd Wells at the Windham World Cup. Cyclocross Magazine

    by Kat Statman Tour de France is happening, the Olympics are coming up, and it’s Friday the 13th. Is there a better time to address the rumors and rumblings in the world of pro ’crossers? So what’s been going on since the last installment, you ask? Todd Wells has been unseated, in part, while Georgia [...]

  • Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of June 29th, 2012

    Trebon smiling, post-race. © Jonas Bruffaerts

    by Kat Statman While it may have been hard to keep an eye on the wonderful world of bike racing over the past few days with Congress’ contempt vote and the Supreme Court’s health care vote, we did, and have a little bit going for you on the eve of the Tour de France. [Ed. [...]

  • Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of Cinco de Mayo

    Katie Compton wins her eight title in a row at the 2012 Cyclocross National Championships in Madison, WI. © Cyclocross Magazine

    by Kat Statman It’s Spring. The Classics are over, the Giro is starting, and still, all we think about it are 32 mm tubulars with little bits of rubber glued to them, mud, running, snow; and which bikes, wheels and tires we’ll be running next year. Well, to keep you satiated, here’s the run down [...]



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