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• Two for One? Compton Seeks Title Sponsor, Pledges Double Exposure by Racing with Men

  1 April 10 • 4 comments

  For the second off-season in a row, six-time Cyclocross National Champion Katie Compton is in another long search for a title sponsor for this upcoming cyclocross season. Her one-year contract with Planet Bike expired this winter and the company pulled out of sponsoring its Elite cyclocross team. After a much drawn-out sponsor search last year, [...]

• Fighting Leg and Financial Cramps – Katie Compton Renews Her Off-Season Battles

  18 February 10 • 0 comment

  Katie Compton had perhaps the best season ever for an American cyclocross racer, dominating Elite Women’s fields both in the U.S. and Europe until her leg cramps put the brakes on her hopes for winning the World Championships and the UCI World Cup overall. The possible upcoming sale of Planet Bike leaves one of the [...]

• Planet Bike to End Elite Team Sponsorship

  16 February 10 • 2 comments

  

  A quick look around at the US National Championships in Bend, or through the results, and you would have been bound to find Planet Bike racers with impressive performances. The team brought home four National titles as well as several podiums in Junior, Elite and Masters categories. Katie Compton and Jonathan Page have both led [...]

• Vos Wins Third World Title, Compton Sidelined By Leg Cramps in Tabor – UPDATED

  31 January 10 • 1 comment

  

  Tabor, Czech Republic – Joyce Vanderbeken, former Belgian champion, perhaps summed up the day in Tabor for a lot of riders, “I was afraid. I lost a lot of places because of it.” But Marianne Vos was clearly able to put fear aside as she won her third Cyclocross World Championship, her sixth title in [...]

• Breaking Story: UCI Confirms Louisville World Champs in 2013, Masters Worlds in 2012 & 2013

  29 January 10 • 1 comment

  

  by Dan Seaton Tábor, Czech Republic – The UCI Management Committee confirmed this afternoon that the 2013 Cyclocross World Championships and 2012/13 Cyclocross Masters World Championships would be held in Louisville, Kentucky in the United States.  As Cyclocross Magazine previously reported, the possibility has been brewing for a while, and received the support of ‘cross [...]

• Possibility of U.S. World Championships Makes Waves in Europe

  28 January 10 • 0 comment

  by Dan Seaton Vienna, Austria – When the news broke last week that ‘cross Worlds may come to the United States in 2013, fans weren’t the only ones surprised and excited. Athletes, officials, and organizers also lined up in support of the idea of bringing cyclocross’ biggest race to the other side of the Atlantic. [Update: [...]

• 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 [...]

• An Interview with Katie Compton: A Lead Up to Worlds Part II

  13 January 10 • 1 comment

  by Matt Haughey Katie Compton is the six-time US Elite Women’s National Cyclocross Champion and current UCI World Cup Cyclocross points leader. With the two remaining World Cup events and the elusive World Championships taking place over the next three weeks, Compton stands poised to not only take a World Cup series but finally best [...]

• An Interview with Katie Compton: A Lead Up to Worlds Part I

  12 January 10 • 2 comments

  by Matt Haughey Katie Compton is the six-time US Elite Women’s National Cyclocross Champion and current UCI World Cup Cyclocross points leader. With the two remaining World Cup events and the elusive World Championships taking place over the next three weeks, Compton stands poised to not only take a World Cup series but finally best [...]

• Vos Takes Solo Win in Zolder – Updated: Rider Reactions, Photo Gallery

  27 December 09 • 3 comments

  by Dan Seaton Zolder, Belgium – Under crystal blue December skies, as the remainder of last weekend’s snow melted away leaving the course on the track in Zolder a fast mix of wet pavement, mud, and ice, Marianne Vos rode to a dominant solo victory over Katie Compton and Daphny Van Den Brand.