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• Pro Cyclocross Rumors and Rumblings – January 27, 2010

  27 January 10 • 0 comment

  In the lead up to the World Championships this weekend in Tabor, Czech Republic, there have been some technology changes that the UCI has imposed to make riders’ lives a bit more difficult, Americans head to the World Championships a week early, but still come home with some medals, and some late-season transfer rumors begin [...]

• Albert Bounces Back in Hoogerheide, Štybar Holds Overall Title – UPDATED – Full Results, Photos

  24 January 10 • 1 comment

  by Dan Seaton Hoogerheide, Belgium – Niels Albert, whose season appeared to be in shambles after several recent missteps and one hard fall in the Belgian Championships, roared back to life today with a comeback win in the final World Cup race of the season, just a week before the World Championships. Albert, who told [...]

• Albert’s Rib Fractured by Spectator, Roubaix World Cup Start in Doubt

  13 January 10 • 1 comment

  by Josh Liberles The snowy course may have been the key element in the Belgian National Championship this past weekend, but it wasn’t the conditions that sent reigning world champion Niels Albert (BKCP – Powerplus) sprawling. A drunk spectator, whom Albert believes to be a Sven Nys supporter, yanked Albert off of his bike in [...]

• Nys Claims Seventh Belgian National Title – Updated: Videos

  10 January 10 • 1 comment

  

  by Dan Seaton Oostmalle, Belgium – Sven Nys, whose 2009-10 season has been punctuated by some of the highest and lowest notes of his storied career, managed to hit a very high note today, claiming his seventh national title on a slippery, snowy track in northern Belgium. Nys’ trademark this season has been the late-race [...]

• Live Coverage of the Belgian National Championships

  10 January 10 • 4 comments

  Cyclocross Magazine’s Live Coverage is back! It’s arguably the second most important jersey in cyclocross, and often has fields just as deep as Worlds because there’s no limit on the Belgian riders. Tune in tomorrow morning as we bring you the race for the tricolore jeresey. Will Niels Albert continue his impressive season and achieve [...]

• Belgian National Championships Elite Men Preview & Sven Nys Interview

  9 January 10 • 2 comments

  by Christine Vardaros Nys is Pre-Race Favorite With a Little Help from Mother Nature Back in October, when Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet-Colnago) placed ninth in his first race of the season and DNF’d a week later at round one of the World Cup Circuit in Treviso, it caused a ripple of concern throughout the cyclo-cross community.  [...]

• Nys Wins At Home Again – Updated: Video, Photo Gallery, Full Results, Reactions

  1 January 10 • 1 comment

  by Dan Seaton with reporting by Mindi Wisman Baal, Belgium – For Sven Nys, the celebration tonight may go on just a bit longer than usual, and not just because he’ll be celebrating a hot start to a New Year. Nys’ victory today before a huge and highly partisan crowd comes in his home town in [...]

• Van Den Brand, Nys Bounce Back in Loenhout – Updated: Rider Reactions, Photo Gallery, Video

  29 December 09 • 4 comments

  by Dan Seaton with reporting by Mindi Wisman Loenhout, Belgium – On a cold and dreary day—though one made warmer by a crowd still feeling the holiday spirit—two riders bounced back from disappointing weekends to take victories on the famous whoop-dees of Azencross. In the women’s race, Daphny Van Den Brand attacked out of a [...]

• Pauwels Takes His First World Cup Victory in Zolder – Updated: Rider Reactions, Photo Gallery

  27 December 09 • 2 comments

  

  by Dan Seaton with reporting by Mindi Wisman Zolder, Belgium – On a perfect December day and a course that started icy and became progressively muddy as the day unfolded, Kevin Pauwels emerged from a group of four to take his second victory as a professional in this seventh round of the UCI World Cup. [...]

• Nys On Top Again in Belgium, Wins Noordzeecross

  23 December 09 • 0 comment

  Noordzeecross Middelkerke, BEL – Sven Nys continued his winning ways in Belgium this week, besting Tom Meeusen.  Eariler this week, Nys took his first World Cup win of the season in Kalmthout, Belgium.  The pair of wins and his budding form are certain to make Saturday’s Zolder World Cup an epic battle. Jonathan Page (Planet [...]