Watching the women’s race at the 2013 Cyclocross World Championships showcased both the agony of defeat and the surprise joy of an unexpected podium as Lucie Chainel-Lefevre sped to third place and a bronze medal while Katerina Nash struggled with a mechanical in the final meters of the race. While it was a devastating defeat [...]
On Saturday, the biggest cyclocross race the US has ever seen happened in Louisville, Kentucky. Reports announced that 9700 people in total swarmed on Eva Bandman Park and Cyclocross Venue to witness history in the making: the first ever non-European World Championships of Cyclocross was here. We spent the races running around cheering for our [...]
If you were out watching Worlds in person yesterday, you may have missed some of the key moves and race action that happened at different spots on the course. And if you already watched the livestream, maybe you just want to watch it again! The full race footage from yesterday’s UCI livestream is available now, [...]
by David Evans LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – In front of a raucous, cheering international crowd that thundered and roared, 36-year-old Sven Nys (Belgium) cemented his position as a living legend of cyclocross by winning his second World Championship title on a Kentucky flood plain. A second rainbow jersey has long frustrated the Belgian hero, to the [...]
by David Evans LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – You can have a World Champion in any color, so long as it’s orange. At least that’s what it felt like through the first three races of the day at the 2013 Cyclocross World Championships in Louisville, KY, as the Dutch racers made it three for three, winning the [...]
On Thursday night, in the middle of the 2013 Cyclocross World Championships week in Louisville, KY, over one hundred singlespeeders gathered to celebrate the spirit of cyclocross in a fashion that strayed far away from any USA Cycling or UCI regulations or last-minute flood-related changes and embraced the unpredictable and dangerous. The event? The Raleigh Singlespeed [...]
With the 2013 Cyclocross World Championships just a week away, the cyclocross geeks at Cyclocross Magazine thought we’d take a look at the UCI cyclocross rankings, starting with the men. These rankings matter in terms of Worlds in two main ways: Starting position for each rider, and number of riders per country. The nation’s UCI [...]
The last time we saw Geoff Kabush out racing, it was at the USGP in Bend back in early December. And since Canadian Nationals were already over by then (with Kabush taking the win), he didn’t have any races to look forward to, except for the big one: Worlds Championships in Kentucky, two months after his last cyclocross race of the season. Yesterday, we caught up with him to find out what he’s been up to for the past few weeks, and find out a bit about his goals for Worlds and the upcoming MTB season.
Louisville’s hold on the 2013 Cyclocross World Championships may be in jeopardy, according to Belgian newspapers. The race, which would be the first cyclocross world championship to be held in the US, is to take place in February of 2013 in Louisville, Kentucky, but according to Belgian newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen, the organizers are having [...]
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