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• Telenet-Fidea Cycling Team Aims to Match 2009/2010 Performance

  17 September 10 • 0 comment

  Last year, the Telenet-Fidea team owned the cyclocross scene, with Zdenek Stybar leading the charge and taking the World Championships. Can they repeat their success this year? The line-up looks impressive, and with Bart Wellens back in good health, this may just be the team to beat. Cyclocross Magazine correspondent Bart Hazen was on site for [...]

• Stybar Wins Prologue, 4th in Stage 1 of Tour of Slovakia

  1 September 10 • 1 comment

  Zdeněk Štybar is showing great form as the cyclocross season nears. Yesterday the reigning cyclocross world champion won the 1.3km prologue, with the rest of his Telenet-Fidea teammates all crammed into the top 11. Tom Meeusen was three seconds back in the hilly effort, good enough for second place. Robert Gavenda was fifth, Petr Dlask [...]

• Nys, Wellens out of Contention for Belgium MTB Title

  21 July 10 • 0 comment

  

  We reported recently on Sven Nys and Bart Wellens (Telenet-Fidea) pounding their mountain bike pedals into podium spots in Belgium’s National Cup series, but are sad to say that neither was able to crown himself the MTB King of Belgium.

• Kevin Pauwels Takes Stage Win, Misses GC at Tour de Serbia

  24 June 10 • 0 comment

  

  by Robbie Carver Some of our favorite ’cross riders showed strong form at the Tour de Serbia, which took place from June 14th to 19th in temperatures ranging as high as 97 degrees. Most notably, Kevin Pauwels out-sprinted his competitors for a Stage 4 win, a move which put him into second place in GC, [...]

• Nys, Albert, Plenty of Crossers at Tour of Belgium

  1 June 10 • 0 comment

  

  by Robbie Carver Wrapping up our coverage of the five day Tour of Belgium, Sven Nys showed his class by coming out on top among the cyclocrossers. Nys finished in 22nd place, 3:11 down from Quick Step’s overall winner Stijn Devolder and twenty-five seconds ahead of 23rd placed (and Italian national cyclocross champion) Enrico Franzoi.

• Big-Name ’Crossers at 2010 Tour of Belgium

  28 May 10 • 0 comment

  

  by Robbie Carver Three days ago, the cyclocross capitol of the world began hosting the 80th edition of the Tour of Belgium, a five day stage race whose first start gun went off in 1908. Why should you care? Well, because, being placed where it is, the event draws a large number of big name European [...]

• Breaking News – Szczepaniaks Receive Doping Suspensions, U23 Podium Resolved

  21 May 10 • 3 comments

  

  by Josh Liberles While Floyd Landis’ leaked emails are creating quite the firestorm within the ProTour regarding athletes and officials involved with the US Postal Service, Discovery and Phonak teams, the UCI is just now resolving the biggest doping bust ever to hit cyclocross. Brothers Pawel and Kacper Szczepaniak tested positive for using the banned [...]

• Reactions to Szczepaniak Brothers’ Positive Doping Tests

  13 March 10 • 1 comment

  by Josh Liberles Cyclocross continues to be at the center of lots of hub-bub in cycling news outlets, and is the focus of a good deal of online chatter. Unfortunately the story that’s creating all the stir continues to be the positive EPO test readings for Polish brothers Pawel and Kacper Szczepaniak, the top two [...]

• Nys Sprints Ahead Again in Superprestige Zonhoven – UPDATED: Photo Galleries, Full Results, Report

  7 February 10 • 1 comment

  by Dan Seaton Zonhoven, Belgium – The Superprestige series, on hiatus since a muddy meeting in Diegem just after Christmas, resumed today on sandy, windblown hills in eastern Belgium. On a course dominated by a gigantic—and for several riders, dangerous— 15 meter deep sand pit, Sven Nys took his second victory of the weekend with [...]

• Polish Rule the U23s in Tabor – Updated: Final Lap VIDEO, More Photos, Full Results

  30 January 10 • 0 comment

  

  by Dan Seaton Tábor, Czech Republic – The Szczepaniak brothers, Pawel and Kacper, rode away with gold and silver in the Under-23 World Championship as their Polish U23 team stamped its mark on a dramatic race for the rainbow jersey, taking three of the top five slots. The two emerged at the front of the race [...]