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• Compton Leads ’Crossers’ Charge at MTB World Cup #5 in Italy

  2 August 10 • 0 comment

  Katie Compton didn’t let a wasp sting on the third lap of the cross country race at the World Cup in Val di Sole, Italy, slow her down as the newly-crowned US national short track champion and reigning cyclocross champ rode to an impressive fourth place in the event. Compton finished just 20 seconds off [...]

• MTB World Cup #4 ’Crosser Roundup

  30 July 10 • 0 comment

  

  Champery, Switzerland, was the site of the fourth round of the MTB World Cup series this past weekend, playing host to some of our favorite ’crossers. The spoils of the XC race went to the pure mountain bikers, with American Todd Wells taking top cyclocross honors with his twelfth place finish, an impressive four places [...]

• Houffalize MTB World Cup – from a Crosser’s Eye

  13 May 10 • 1 comment

  Christine Vardaros continues to deliver cyclocross reports straight from Europe. Here she tracks the cyclocrossers’ impressive performances in the recent Houffalize MTB World Cup and gets exclusive interviews and updates along the way. If you missed her last article about her stage race win in Cyprus, check it out here. by Christine Vardaros “What the [...]

• US Riders Strut Their Dirt-Stuff on World MTB Stage

  2 May 10 • 0 comment

  

  We may be a little late with our mountain biking news here, but last weekend the best in the off-road business were mixing it up at the season’s first World Cup in Yorkshire, UK. Many of the top talent from the U.S. are also names you’ll recognize from the domestic ‘cross scene, including Todd Wells, [...]

• Book Review: Balint Hamvas’ UCI Cyclocross World Cup 2009/2010 Photo Book

  23 March 10 • 0 comment

  by Dan Seaton If you couldn’t make the trip to Kalmthout in December to watch Sven Nys rebound from a disastrous first lap to a dramatic victory in the middle of a blizzard, or Treviso to see Katie Compton and Niels Albert both ride away from two talented fields, leaving nothing but a cloud of [...]

• Meredith Miller Recaps Her First-Ever World Cups: Roubaix and Hoogerheide

  27 January 10 • 0 comment

  Meredith Miller (California Giant Berry Farms) followed up her 2009 National Road Championship in Bend, Oregon, with a silver medal at Cyclocross Nationals in the same town five months later–in only her second year of cyclocross competition. That result gained her a spot on the US Worlds team, and she now finds herself battling against [...]

• Telenet-Fidea Meet the Press: GP Telenet and the World Championships

  26 January 10 • 0 comment

  The Belgian Telenet-Fidea Cycling Team together with the municipality of Zonhoven held a press conference on Monday to announce the details for the GP Telenet, part of the Superprestige Series to be held on February 7th. The discussion was led by Telenet-Fidea Manager Hans van Kasteren and after the course from the upcoming race was [...]

• Dombroski Battles to a Top-Ten in Hoogerheide

  26 January 10 • 0 comment

  Amy Dombroski reports after the Hoogerheide World Cup, her much improved acceleration out of the gates and her stellar, top-ten result. She continues her ramp-up to the World Championships in Tabor next weekend and looks to be getting progressively more comfortable in the intense Euro ‘cross ranks. In case you missed it, check out her [...]

• Six Favorite Photos of Cyclocross Champions in Hoogerheide

  25 January 10 • 0 comment

  Both newly-crowned national champions and reigning world champions were present this past Sunday in Hoogerheide, the Netherlands, for one last battle before the 2010 World Championships in Tabor.  Cyclocross Magazine star photographer Joe Sales has finally started his annual European trip that we always anxious await and was there to capture some of the action [...]

• 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 [...]