DIEGEM, BELGIUM – In the early morning women’s race, Marianne Vos (Nederland Bloeit) took the win at SuperPrestige Diegem today with a gap of over two minutes, followed by Lucie Chanel-Lefevre (Boxx-Veldritacademie), Sanne Cant (Boxx-Veldritacademie) and Gabby Day (Renner Custom-Raleigh). Vos’ technical skills and ability to ride where no other racer was capable of staying [...]
by Kat Statman Every year, cyclocross and women get a little closer to equality and Rabobank has helped making that transition again. So I hear that disc brakes are the next thing in cross, but where are they? Niels Albert has taken the plunge as the first Euro to really think that disc braking performance [...]
by Dan Seaton Gieten, Netherlands – On the first really cold weekends of the 2010-11 season, the world of European cyclocross headed to a snowy Gieten, in the far northern Netherlands, for the fifth round of the Nissan Superprestige Series. Coming a day after a tough race through the sand at the Koksijde World Cup, [...]
by Bart Hazen Zdenek Stybar (Telenet-Fidea) continued his sensational run this season, claiming his eighth win out of nine starts today in Zonhoven, Belgium. After a thrilling battle he proved too strong for his teammate Kevin Pauwels and Belgian champion Sven Nys. Bart Aernouts and Niels Albert finished fourth and fifth, respectively. Jonathan Page abandoned [...]
It was an uncharacteristically busy week in the world of cyclocross considering the time of year, so sit back and soak up a lot of interesting off-season movement. The Sczcepaniaks are back in the news, for less dastardly reasons. Lots of contract talk was flying about despite the calendars saying March, and a French Woman [...]
After a busy few weeks, both for your moderator and the cyclocross peloton, things are starting to settle out for the upcoming push for the World Championships. The big favorites are beginning to get their games in order, and, barring a few outliers (see: Neils Albert and his fractured ribs), the big names you’d expect [...]
While the American cyclocross calendar is drawing nearer and nearer to its close, the European calendar is just heating up. The Portland Cup was the final major two race weekend in America, and it provided the fireworks that it had promised. Thousands of miles away, the top end of Europe’s talent was in Igorre, Spain, [...]
by Dan Seaton Koksijde, Belgium – Saturday brought classic weather — sun, clouds, rain and sun again — to the Belgian coast as the UCI World Cup made the first of three visits to the heartland of ‘cross. It was a rare race where course conditions may have benefited from some wet weather, as the [...]
A couple important health updates came forward this week, as Sunweb-Projob loses another rider for next weekend and the swine flu hits the cyclocross peloton. Over in the states, a bit of a sponsorship mix up turns some heads, and Neils Albert gets into a bit of spat with fans in Niel. Neils Albert Draws [...]
Well, it’s been a while in coming, and we’re three weeks in, and I do apologize for taking so long, but at long last, the first three weeks’ results have been calculated! Not playing yet? We may be close to securing an awesome grand prize, and last year’s winner missed the first few weeks of [...]
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