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• Compton Signs With Rabobank-Giant Offroad Team

  11 February 11 • 0 comment

  As Katie Compton’s ’cross season came to a close with her silver medal at Worlds, questions abounded about who would replace Planet Bike as her main sponsor. Compton had an impressive season, winning 5 World Cup races on top of her World’s podium, and the results attracted the Rabobank-Giant Offroad Team, which includes Bart Aernouts [...]

• World Champion Vos Misses Out on Track World Championships

  10 February 11 • 0 comment

  Alkmaar, Ned – Newly (re)crowned Cyclocross World Champion Marianne Vos competed today in a bike-off against fellow countrywoman Kirsten Wild for the honor of representing the Netherlands in the 2011 Track World Championships. Due to conflicting winter schedules, the two speedsters never had a chance to compete with each other, and so the decision for a [...]

• Threepeat: Marianne Vos Wins 2011 World Championships, Compton, Nash Complete Podium

  30 January 11 • 0 comment

  

  America’s best chance to win its first-ever Elite Cyclocross World Championship rested on the shoulders of US National Champion Katie Compton. With an incredible international winning record this season, and without the typical late-season leg cramps that have hampered her from training and racing, Compton was the one rider cyclocross fans throughout the world had [...]

• A Pre-Worlds Check-in with Katie Compton

  29 January 11 • 0 comment

  by Christine Vardaros We caught up with Katie Compton, one of the clear favorites for the title in St Wendel, Germany, to see how she’s feeling just before tomorrow’s big race. According to Compton, she’s more prepared this time around than ever before. Her leg cramping issue, which has plagued her for several seasons, is [...]

• Compton Solos to Win at Hoogerheide – UPDATED: Photo Gallery, Video, Full Results

  24 January 11 • 0 comment

  At the final World Cup in Hoogerheide, the Netherlands, today, Katie Compton (Planet Bike) showed she is in form for the World Championships in St. Wendel next weekend. The seven-time US National Champion won in solo fashion after a bobble by Hanka Kupfernagel (Stevens), which also blocked Marianne Vos (Nederland Bloeit), allowed the American to [...]

• Sneak Peak: Dugast Pipistrello-Rhino

  19 January 11 • 7 comments

  If you’ve been watching closely, Marianne Vos has been winning races – Dutch National Championships and the Pont-Chateau World Cup among them – on an odd looking tire with a white center tread and a black side knob. Thanks to our friends over at The Chainstay, we’ve gained some close-up photo’s of these tires.

• Vos Wins World Cup in Pont-Château, Van Paassen Grabs Overall Lead From Compton

  16 January 11 • 0 comment

  With Katie Compton absent from the start line in Pont-Château, France, the race was a little more wide open than usual. Marianne Vos punched it from the start and soon distanced most of the other competitors. Christel Ferrier-Bruneau and Hanka Kupfernagel were able to hang on for a little while, but by the end of [...]

• Dutch Championships: Vos Steals Van Den Brand’s Stripes, Boom Caps Off His ’Cross Season – UPDATED: FULL REPORT, LOTS More Photos

  11 January 11 • 0 comment

  Defending world champ Marianne Vos (Nederland Bloeit) just edged out defending Dutch national champ Daphny van den Brand (ZZPR.nl) by the slimmest of margins, adding her first tricolor jersey to her palmares by a mere two seconds. Van den Brand sought out her 12th national title, but a clearly on-form Vos is tough to match. Sanne van [...]

• Will Vos Prevent Van den Brand’s Dirty Dozen in Dutch National Championships?

  7 January 11 • 0 comment

  Dutch Women’s Nationals by Christine Vardaros If Daphny van den Brand wins the Dutch Championships this Saturday in St. Michielsgestel, it will be her 12th year donning the national stripes. In reality, though, she only wore the jersey for 10 of her 11 times, having traded it in for the rainbow variety the year she [...]

• Albert, Kupfernagel Rule Tervuren Fidea Cyclocross Classic

  2 January 11 • 0 comment

  TERVUREN, BELGIUM – Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) distanced his rivals and showed that he’s on great form coming into next weekend’s Belgian National Championships. Albert’s win wraps up the Christmas week of racing in Belgium, which featured big races and stacked fields almost every day between Christmas and January 2nd, and also marks the end of [...]