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• Houffalize MTB World Cup – from a Crosser’s Eye

  13 May 10 • 1 comment

  Christine Vardaros continues to deliver cyclocross reports straight from Europe. Here she tracks the cyclocrossers’ impressive performances in the recent Houffalize MTB World Cup and gets exclusive interviews and updates along the way. If you missed her last article about her stage race win in Cyprus, check it out here. by Christine Vardaros “What the [...]

• A Flying Start to the Off-Season – Part II – A Column By Christine Vardaros

  6 April 10 • 5 comments

  by Christine Vardaros Collecting More Than Just a Suntan in Cyprus – Christine Vardaros wraps up her report from the Tour of Cyprus. If you missed Part One, check it out! I am checking in from the Stoumont region of The Ardennes – the hilly part of Belgium next to some of the famous Liege-Bastogne-Liege [...]

• A Flying Start to the Offseason – A Column By Christine Vardaros

  30 March 10 • 3 comments

  by Christine Vardaros While most of the Belgian cyclocross racers are spending part of their first post-season month skiing or on some warm sunny beach sipping umbrella drinks by the seaside to unwind, I chose to spend mine suffering on the bike – but at least it’s under sunny skies with the most magnificent views [...]

• Erwin Vervecken Bolt Uit – Retirement Ride and Party

  1 March 10 • 0 comment

  Erwin Finally Hangs the Bike up for Good in his Hometown of Herentals by Christine Vardaros It was the third but last time this week that three-time world champion Erwin Vervecken hung up his bike for good. But first he went for a “Sunday stroll” around the park with 750 of his friends.

• Vardaros Finds Cyclocross Masters Indoor Race the Perfect Ending to a Long European Season

  26 February 10 • 2 comments

  Cyclocross Masters Indoor Race – Hasselt, February 24, 2010 by Christine Vardaros With all the official races here in Europe finally behind us, the indoor Cyclocross Masters event last night was the most spectacular way to end the season. Since it was a stress and pressure-free evening, the racers all had their guards down and [...]

• Masters of the (Cyclocross) Universe – UPDATED: More Photos

  25 February 10 • 1 comment

  by Dan Seaton Hasselt, Belgium – Let’s be honest here: cyclocross is a circus. Sure, the thousands of fans who turn out every week come to see a bike race, but they also come to rub shoulders with their heroes, eat frites, drink and dance in the beer tents, collect the freebies that the sponsors [...]

• GVA Trofee’s Oostmalle: The Day of Parties – A Column by Christine Vardaros

  23 February 10 • 0 comment

  by Christine Vardaros The last official race of the season may have been like any other, but when combined with a touch of senioritis (think back to the last couple of weeks of high school or university) everything felt different. For this reason, Jonas and I showed up a little later than our normal three [...]

• From Bike to Podium – A Column by Christine Vardaros – UPDATED: Photos

  14 February 10 • 0 comment

  

  by Christine Vardaros From bike to podum – that is, from the Krawatencross race in Lille, Belgium last weekend to the podium at the ECOPOP fair for a speaking engagement the following day. Krawatencross is one of the few races I look forward to every year – or at least for the past three years [...]

• Pre-Worlds Comments from Some Favorites

  30 January 10 • 0 comment

  World Cup competitor Christine Vardaros checks in with four of the top favorites for tomorrow’s Elite World Championship races. Sven Nys, Marianne Vos, Daphny van den Brand and Sanne van Paassen give their last minute updates and predictions for the races.  Find complete coverage, photos, reports and replay our live coverage from Saturday and Sunday [...]

• 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 [...]