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• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumbling Week of April 22, 2011

  22 April 11 • 2 comments

  by Kat Statman Yes, it’s still the off-season. How do we know that? Well, if you look at many cycling publications the front page headlines are all concerned with the Ardennes Classics, Andy Schleck’s Trek Madone and the fact that Ivan Basso is not racing the Giro d’Italia. Even though road racing has some similarities [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of April 15th, 2011

  15 April 11 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman Week in, week out, there’s racing to be had around the world where we can catch up on what ’crossers do in their spare time. So here it is this week. Marianne Vos continues to show that she is the best of the best. Lars Boom puts his stamp on Paris-Roubaix, will he [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of April 8th, 2011

  8 April 11 • 2 comments

  by Kat Statman It’s the thick of classics season and all we can think about is the smell of embrocation, rain soaked fields, 32 millimeter tubulars and practicing our dismounts and remounts. But we still have a few months before we start pedaling a bit harder and really preparing for the weekly battles. Until then, [...]

• 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 [...]

• Sven Nys Commits to Race 2011-12 Cyclocross Season in U.S.

  31 March 11 • 3 comments

  

  by Benjamin Kirsch Sven Nys, who, with seven Belgian national titles, a World Championship, and almost uncountable Superprestige, World Cup, and GVA Trofee wins, might be the most successful European cyclocross racer of his generation, has announced he will spend next season racing exclusively in the United States.

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of February 25th, 2011

  25 February 11 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman The 2010–2011 cyclocross season is over. The general classifications have been decided and many of the rider–team agreements have been made for the 2011-2012 season. So what is there to talk about in the realm of pro cyclcoross? Well, we still have pro cyclocross to talk about. Just because the season is [...]

• Stybar and Vos Prove Masters of Cross Yet Again: Photo Gallery

  25 February 11 • 0 comment

  Wednesday’s Masters of Cross brought the 2010/2011 season to a fitting end with our two Elite World Champions taking top honors for the night. It was perhaps fitting that Zdenek Stybar and Marianne Vos, who both repeated their World Titles this year, also repeated their victories here in the Ethias Arena in Hasselt, Belgium. The [...]

• Albert Wins GvA Trofee Oostmalle, Nys Takes Overall Honors UPDATED: Photos, Rider Responses and Results

  20 February 11 • 0 comment

  In an exciting race today at Oostmalle, Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) and Kevin Pauwels (Telenet-Fidea) – who entered the race only separated by two points – gave us the fireworks we were hoping for as the two GvA leaders traded blows back and forth for the whole of the race. But for those two it was mostly [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of February 18th, 2011

  18 February 11 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman With one big weekend left in the season, things have noticeably slowed down on the rumors and rumblings side of pro ’cross racing. Most riders already have their contracts worked out. There are only a few riders really looking to grab wins or strong rides over the final weekend (I’m looking at [...]

• Klaas Vantournout Wins Superprestige Middelkerke Ahead of Pauwels UPDATED: Full Results and Photos

  12 February 11 • 0 comment

  by Robbie Carver Taking his first win of the season at the final Superprestige race in Middelkerke, Klaas Vantournout (Sunweb-Revor) established a dominating solo lead ahead of the world’s best riders. Though Zdenek Stybar, Sven Nys and Kevin Pauwels would all try to reel the Sunweb-Revor rider in, the Belgian proved uncatchable and crossed the [...]