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• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of November 4th, 2011

  4 November 11 • 2 comments

  by Kat Statman Two European classic ’cross races have passed this week, Koppenberg and Zonhoven. Sand and big hills were the name of the game, and it became painfully clear that the European courses are much different than our courses here. Did anyone see spirals of death? Did you see that downhill sand chute into [...]

• Video Interview: Helen Wyman Chats About Road Racing, Crashing and Cyclocross

  9 May 11 • 0 comment

  British Cyclocross National Champion Helen Wyman talks with Sarah Connolly about her recent crash in her skinny tire adventures at the GP Elsy Jacobs race. But Wyman admits she’s primarily a cyclocrosser, and also talks about her win at the 2010 Koppenberg Cross and disappointments at  last year’s Pont Chateau Cyclocross World Cup and the [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of April 1st, 2011

  1 April 11 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman Sometimes it’s really hard to remember that we live and die for cyclocross, especially during the spring classics season, but Greg Keller and Molly Cameron do a pretty good job of reminding us on twitter. As we all start buying up our tubulars and thinking about what bikes and wheelsets we are [...]

• Nys Wins Eighth Koppenberg, Adams Takes First U23 Win – UPDATED: Video, Full Results

  3 November 10 • 0 comment

  by Bart Hazen Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) has won the Koppenbergcross in Oudenaarde, Belgium, for the seventh consecutive time and his eighth win in this race in his career. The Belgian champion dominated from start to finish and won with a lead of over one minute on his compatriots Niels Albert and Kevin Pauwels. World champion [...]

• Helen Wyman Queen of the Koppenberg, Dutch Win Youth Races

  1 November 10 • 0 comment

  by Bart Hazen British national champion Helen Wyman (Kona) took the biggest win in her career on the Koppenberg today. The newly crowned “Queen of the Koppenberg” soloed to an impressive win with the native Belgian rider Sanne Cant finishing in second and Dutchwoman Sanne van Paassen in third. Daphny van den Brand and Sophie [...]

• 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, [...]

• Havlikova, Nys Win on the Slopes of the Koppenberg – Updated: Full Results and Photos

  26 October 09 • 0 comment

  by Dan Seaton Oudenaarde, Belgium – If there’s a map of hallowed ground in the world of cycling, the Koppenberg has to be on that map. With its barely rideable, cobbled 22% grade, it’s one of the most difficult ascents of the Ronde van Vlaanderen in the spring, and host to a race that many [...]

• 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 [...]