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• The Unintentional Striptease – A Column by Christine Vardaros

  8 January 10 • 2 comments

  by Christine Vardaros How many people can say they showered with Tom Vannoppen, Belgium’s favorite comeback kid? Ok, so technically we didn’t shower together, but we did share the ladies shower room at the GP Hotel Threeland race site in Pétange, Luxembourg. Directly after my event I had no time to get properly cleaned up [...]

• Surviving Zolder World Cup and GVA Trofee’s Azencross – A Column by Christine Vardaros

  1 January 10 • 1 comment

  by Christine Vardaros Have you ever felt the sensation of having a small fire burning deep inside your soul?  Every time I get so frustrated that I feel like giving up on this sport, that small fire shines bright.   It’s what tells me that I am not done yet with the fight. If I never [...]

• Scheldecross and Kalmthout World Cup 2009, A Column by Christine Vardaros

  27 December 09 • 0 comment

  By Christine Vardaros It’s been absolutely unreal to see how much snow has fallen in Belgium the last few days. People always talk about the crap winters here, but in reality it’s rarely ever cold enough to warrant snow. Thanks to about two feet of it, the whole country has been temporarily shut down and [...]

• Van Den Brand, Nys Pull the Pin on the Banks of the Schelde, Dombroski Earns Top Ten

  18 December 09 • 3 comments

  by Dan Seaton Antwerp, Belgium – Forty-five minutes standing around in the coldest conditions Belgium has seen in nearly a year is probably not the ideal preparation for a tough ‘cross race featuring several long, challenging sections of sand. But that’s how the elite men warmed up for Scheldecross, just across the Schelde River from [...]

• Koksijde: Sharing the Sandbox with Mother Nature, A Column by Christine Vardaros

  3 December 09 • 1 comment

  by Christine Vardaros Koksijde, Belgium – The Koksijde World Cup can be summed up in two words – rain and sand. As the course literally wound through the Belgian coast’s dunes, almost half the track was in sand. While the rain turned some of the sand sections into single-file highways, all of the races were [...]

• Superprestige Asper-Gavere: Great Legs, Broken Bike , A Column by Christine Vardaros

  16 November 09 • 3 comments

  by Christine Vardaros GAVERE, BELGIUM – Passing through the start/finish pavement going into the second lap of five, I was on the wheel of Pavla Havlikova and Belgian National Champ Joyce Vanderbeken (who eventually finished 7th and 10th, respectively).  My first thought was, “Holy Toledo. I’m racing my bike!”  The next thought, as I held [...]

• Nommay and Jaarmaarktcross – Focusing on the Positive, A Column by Christine Vardaros

  15 November 09 • 1 comment

  By Christine Vardaros “It’s always best to keep positive, things can change in a minute,” I continuously repeated to myself after last weekend’s disastrous World Cup race in Nommay, France. And I kept repeating it straight up to the start of the next race three days later at Fidea’s Jaarmaarktcross in Belgium. Nommay was easily [...]

• Time Flies – Vicki Thomas Checks in From Belgium

  12 November 09 • 1 comment

  

  Vicki Thomas checks in with another installment of her adventures chasing the ‘cross dream on the courses of Europe.  Vicki’s previous report from the Treviso World Cup can be seen here. The old adage is that time flies when you’re having fun. This is definitely ringing true for me. It is hard for me to [...]

• Koppenbergcross – Racing Is Only Half the Fun! – A Column by Christine Vardaros

  28 October 09 • 0 comment

  by Christine Vardaros If I were allowed to put only one race on my “to-do list”, Koppenbergcross would be the one!  It has all the elements of my theoretically perfect cross event. The course contains a climb on the world’s most famous cobbles, plows down a technical switchback descent, and comes lined with 20,000 screaming, [...]

• Night Racing in Holland – a Report by Christine Vardaros

  22 October 09 • 0 comment

  by Christine Vardaros If I could describe racing at night in one word, it would be WOOO-HOOO! OK, well maybe that is technically two words but it just can’t be summed up in one. I suppose unreal or surreal can cover it too. According to the TomTom GPS, which almost every single Belgian uses to [...]