OOSTMALLE, BELGIUM – In the final round of the Bpost Bank Trophy series, Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) sealed his overall series lead with a commanding solo performance to take the win. Albert raced in his favorite fashion today, attacking on the second lap, establishing a gap, and then using the rest of the race to time-trial away [...]
MIDDELKERKE, BELGIUM – Belgian National Champion Klaas Vantornout (Sunweb-Napolean Games) played a tactically perfect race today, covering the early moves and then attacking a select group containing Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus), World Champion Sven Nys, and an impassioned Tom Meeusen (Telenet Fidea). Vantornout chose perhaps the best feature of the course to make his move, slotting [...]
HOOGSTRATEN, BELGIUM: On a challenging course lined with snow and thick with leg-sapping mud, Sven Nys (Crelan-Euphony) took his first win in his newly won World Championship jersey, and the 60th Superprestige victory of his career. In fact, the race took shape much like that in Louisville, as Nys traded blows with Klaas Vantornout (Sunweb-Napolean Games) until the [...]
LILLE, BELGIUM – A week after a disappointing ride at the World Championships in Louisville, Niels Albert stormed the shores of Lille today with a commanding solo escape. Looking slightly strange without his World Champions jersey, the BCKP-Powerplus rider used the fast, sandy lakeside course to pull away on the second lap and time trial to an emotional [...]
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 [...]
Cyclocross Magazine got a chance to sit down with the elite men’s team from Belgium to get their thoughts on Louisville, Worlds in the US, travel and timezones, and their thoughts on the course thus far. Our first interviewee was Klaas Vantornout, the current reigning Belgian National Champion. He’s had one of his best seasons [...]
While most spectators are waiting in anticipation of tomorrow’s final World Cup in Hoogerheide, racers today had a job to do at either the C2 Kasteelcross in Zonnebeke, Belgiam or the C2 Internationale Cyclo-Cross in Rucphen, Netherlands. With a nasty cold snap moving over northern Europe, racers had frozen courses – and frozen ground – [...]
ROME, ITALY – Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Napoleon Games) took his third World Cup victory today in Rome, ahead of World Champion Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) and Italian Champion Marco Aurelio Fontana (Cannondale). Fontana, who rode a passionate race in front of his home crowd, raced a disc-equipped Cannondale, making this the first appearance of disc brakes on a [...]
OVERIJSE, BELGIUM: Falling rain, slick mud, near-freezing temperatures – cyclocross fans today got the best of their sport as the Euro Elite headed to the heart of Flanders for the Druienveldrit Overijse. There was no bad luck today for Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet KDL), who took to the mud like, well, mud takes to a cyclocross [...]
This Sunday marks the exciting return of the World Cup series to Roubaix, France and the legendary velodrome that welcomes home road’s closest ’cross cousin, the Paris-Roubaix. Last held in 2010, the brutal race was dominated by Zdenek Stybar, who proved best in the muddy, slippery slog as behind him Klaas Vantornout slipped away from [...]
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