by Kat Statman It’s that time of year again, folks! That’s right, my third favorite cycling event of year: the Giro d’Italia. For any cycling fan, of all the grand tours, the Giro is the most interesting, especially because ’crossers or former ’crossers have a tendency to do really well. Even our fat-tired cousins from [...]
The final race of the European cyclocross season, Cyclocross Masters, was more spectacle than race, with World Champion Sven Nys “winning” ahead of Belgian Champion Klaas Vantornout and World Cup Champion Niels Albert on a night course where, according to Cyclocross Magazine’s correspondent and racer Christine Vardaros, “the riders tackled manmade bridges, washboards, ramps, curbs, [...]
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 [...]
Just as mechanics were packing the team’s bikes in the Belgian team hotel, Cyclocross Magazine’s Clifford Lee was able to spend a few minutes with Sven Nys’ 2013 Cyclocross World Championship-winning Colnago Cross Prestige cyclocross bike and snapped a few quick photos of the machine. Nys, a career-long Colnago-sponsored rider rode a black Colnago Cross Prestige [...]
If you were out watching Worlds in person yesterday, you may have missed some of the key moves and race action that happened at different spots on the course. And if you already watched the livestream, maybe you just want to watch it again! The full race footage from yesterday’s UCI livestream is available now, [...]
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 [...]
Sven Nys, Niels Albert, Marianne Vos, Lars van der Haar and Kevin Pauwels all talk about the 2013 Louisville World Championships, coming to the States, and their expectations of the course in this video interview at the bottom of this post. The five Shimano-sponsored racers all have positive things to say about the World Championships [...]
HOOGERHEIDE, NETHERLANDS – As flurries of snow swirled around the racers and frozen ground saw the best riders in the world crashing as their bikes disappeared beneath them, Czech racer Martin Bina (CEZ Cyklo Team Tabor) had the greatest victory of his pro career with a dominating show of riding on the ice. Dutchman Lars van der Haar (Rabobank-Giant), racing [...]
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