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• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings: Week of January 7th, 2011

  7 January 11 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman Another week and another round of Rumors about pro ’crossers around the world. With this week being the National Championship week for most of the major cyclocross hotbed countries, many are looking towards the big days in Belgium and the Netherlands. But there is some non-National Championship news also. The win leaderboard [...]

• Belgian Championships: Expected Battle Between Nys and Albert Hinges on Course Conditions – UPDATED: Pre-Ride Video

  7 January 11 • 3 comments

  by Christine Vardaros The most highly-anticpated battle on Belgian soil is to take place in Antwerp this Sunday at the Belgian National Championships. The two favorites are current national champion Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) and former world champ Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus). But depending on the course conditions, pre-race predictions can easily change – especially in a [...]

• Ask a Pro: Reader’s Questions Answered by Sven Nys, King of ’Cross

  5 January 11 • 3 comments

  

  At 34 years of age, Sven Nys only has one elite World title among his palmares, but with seven Belgian Championships, nine Superprestige titles, seven GvA Trofee titles and six World Cup overall wins, he’s the undisputed king of ’cross in Belgium. And as a member of the UCI’s Cyclocross Commission and an athlete with [...]

• 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 [...]

• Who Else? Sven Nys Defends Title at Gran Prix Sven Nys – GVA Trofee #6 – Updated: Full Report, Video

  1 January 11 • 0 comment

  by Dan Seaton BAAL, Belgium – Racing nearly in his back yard, Sven Nys claimed his tenth win in his namesake race by pulling away from World Champion Zdenek Stybar in the final few hundred meters of a cold, muddy contest. On the first dreary winter day of 2011 in this tiny village northeast of [...]

• Euro Cross Camp in Photos: Campers Race with Nys and Albert in Bredene, Brian Matter Steals Stybar’s Start Position

  31 December 10 • 0 comment

  Tom Robertson continues to bring us words and images covering the Euro Cross Campers’ experience, this time from the Loenhout Azencross. Missed his previous post? Check out his photos from the GVA Trofee Azencross race at Loenhout. by Tom Robertson Thursday was a “smaller” race in the coastal town of Bredene, Belgium. Dubbed the Sylvester [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings: Week of December 31st, 2010

  31 December 10 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman As the Christmas cyclocross week craziness slowly winds down with the GvA Trofee Grote Prijs Sven Nys on New Year’s Day and the Fidea Cyclocross Tervurven on Sunday, we have some good New Year cheer and exciting rumors and rumblings to talk about. Sven Nys has been plagued by “mechanics” problems almost [...]

• Albert, Vos Tops in Loenhout – UPDATED: Photos

  29 December 10 • 1 comment

  by Dan Seaton LOENHOUT, BELGIUM – Though it might have been a gloomy, winter day, the stars of cyclocross shone brightly on the 27th edition of Azencross, delivering – almost – two down-to-the-wire duels to the huge crowds that waded through the snow and mud here in northern Belgium. In the women’s race, world champion [...]

• Albert Outduels Nys, Stybar Returns to Take Third in Superprestige Diegem – Updated: Photos, Report

  28 December 10 • 0 comment

  DIEGEM, BELGIUM – Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) and Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) distanced the rest of the field in the Diegem Superprestige night race, but couldn’t create separation from one another. It wasn’t until Nys dropped his chain in the final 300 meters of the race that Albert was able to create some breathing room, and the [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of December 24th, 2010

  24 December 10 • 3 comments

  by Kat Statman With the build up to the Christmas ’Cross Week, one would think that we would have a lot of noise from the pro ’crossers in Europe. It seems everyone is keeping quiet and focusing on the week ahead and doing last-minute homework to get their Cyclocross Magazine fantasy team done before Christmas. [...]