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• A Pre-Olympics Chat with Belgian Cyclocross Star Sven Nys

  22 August 08 • 5 comments

  Multiple UCI Cyclocross World Cup Winner and former World Champion Sven Nys is lining up for Belgium to race the best mountain bikers in the world in the Olympic mountain bike race on Saturday. With newly added technical features and the inevitable mud promised by Thursday’s rains, Nys, like skilled American mountain bike and cyclocross [...]

• A Date With Sven Nys

  16 July 08 • 0 comment

  Sven Nys, the most dominant ‘cross racer of his generation, is having a go at the mountain bike event at the Beijing Olympics next month. As part of his preparation and focus, he’s refusing all interviews before the Olympics. That means refusing all interviews from any publication, with the one exception of Cyclocross Magazine, of [...]

• Euro-File: Nys Accelerates His Hop to Landbouwkrediet, Boom Leading Olympia Tour

  22 May 08 • 0 comment

  As we reported earlier two weeks ago, Sven Nys is switching from Rabobank to the Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner team. His original transfer date was to be on January 1, 2009, but he has negotiated that the move happen earlier, and if approved by the UCI, he will be wearing the new colors on May 28 for the [...]

• Sven Nys Receives World Cup in Carboard Box via Mail

  4 May 08 • 1 comment

  Win the World Cup overall? You’ll get your cup in the mail, in a cardboard box a few months later, if you’re lucky. Belgian paper Het Nieuwsblad reports that ’07-08 UCI World Cup winners Nys and Daphny van den Brand just recently received their prestigious World Cup trophies in the mail. Win the biggest and [...]