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• 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 [...]

• Nys Will Not Be Denied in Kalmthout Snow – Updated: Photo Gallery, Video, Full Results

  20 December 09 • 3 comments

  

  by Dan Seaton with reporting by Mindi Wisman (Read reactions from the American riders  here) Kalmthout, Belgium – There are only a handful of races that attain legendary status, races that qualify as career defining efforts. Sven Nys’ ride in Kalmthout today may have been one of those races. After two mishaps in the first [...]

• Van Den Brand, Nys Pull the Pin on the Banks of the Schelde, Dombroski Earns Top Ten

  18 December 09 • 3 comments

  by Dan Seaton Antwerp, Belgium – Forty-five minutes standing around in the coldest conditions Belgium has seen in nearly a year is probably not the ideal preparation for a tough ‘cross race featuring several long, challenging sections of sand. But that’s how the elite men warmed up for Scheldecross, just across the Schelde River from [...]

• Albert Leaves Little Doubt that he’s Back on Top in Overijse

  13 December 09 • 0 comment

  by Dan Seaton Overijse, Belgium – Nine timezones away from frigid, snowy Bend, winter made its presence known in Belgium as well, as temperatures plunged towards the freezing mark for the first time this season. But in Overijse, it wasn’t snow that determined the course conditions, it was the loss of access to a field [...]

• The Return of the King? It’s Albert in Essen – UPDATED

  12 December 09 • 0 comment

  By Dan Seaton Essen, Belgium – On a brisk and windy day—perhaps the coldest racers in Belgium have seen this season—Niels Albert returned to his old form after nearly a month of disappointing results. Riding what has become his trademark race, the World Champion attacked hard from the gun and never looked back.  Although Sven [...]

• Fantasy Cyclocross Update – Week 12

  7 December 09 • 1 comment

  

  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, [...]

• Nys Marks a Milestone with Win in Gieten, van den Brand Wins the Day – UPDATED – Full Results, Photos

  29 November 09 • 0 comment

  by Dan Seaton & Bart Hazen Gieten, Netherlands – On a flat but muddy course in Gieten today, Daphny van den Brand and Marrianne Vos rode away from the field in the women’s race.  Sven Nys bounced back from his near miss in Koksijde to take his 50th Superprestige victory in commanding fashion. After a [...]

• Pro Bike Profile – Sven Nys’ Colnago Cross Prestige

  24 November 09 • 0 comment

  by Jamie Mack Colnago is as synonymous with tradition and quality in bicycles as the name Sven Nys is with winning prestigious cyclocross races.  After a decade of racing in the orange of Rabobank, Nys made a switch and is now riding in the Landbouwkrediet-Colnago kit, but is still perched on the bikes of the [...]

• Štybar Makes it Two in a Row at Hamme-Zogge Superprestige – Updated: MORE Photos, Rider Reactions

  23 November 09 • 0 comment

  by Dan Seaton Hamme, Belgium – Buoyed by his first trip to the top step of the podium yesterday in Hasselt, Zdeněk Štybar once again grabbed victory at the finish line today in Hamme-Zogge.  On an uncharacteristically warm and sunny day for November in Belgium, the blustery winds that raked the open fields of the course [...]

• Stybar Succeeds in Gazet Van Antwerpen Trofee, Albert Retains Overall

  21 November 09 • 0 comment

  by Bart Hazen After many second and third places, Czech Zdenek Stybar (Telenet-Fidea) finally took a big win at the third race of the Gazet van Antwerpen Trofee in Hasselt. In a four-up sprint, “Styby” was the fastest over teammate Kevin Pauwels, World Champion Niels Albert and Sunweb’s Klaas Vantornout. Belgian Champion Sven Nys crashed mid-way through [...]