The junior race in the Cyclo-cross World Champsionships in Tabor, Czech Republic, was won by home rider Tomas Paprstka. He beat Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe in a tight two-up sprint. Nine seconds later Dutch rider Emiel Dolfsma secured bronze. Places six […]
After news of a positive doping control for the third generation form of EPO, CERA, double Italian cyclo-cross champion Vania Rossi has claimed that she is innocent. The control was taken at the National Cyclo-cross Championships on January 20th, where […]
Cyclocross may be a little but smaller than road racing, but nothing is left to chance when it comes to the World Championships, which take place on Sunday, January 31, 2010, in Tabor, Czech Republic. The top rivals faced an […]
Tom Meeusen had dominated the U23 cyclocross racing in the winter and anything but a victory by the Belgian would have to be considered a surprise. And a surprise it was, as Meeusen ended in fourth place, behind the Szczepaniak […]
Universal Sports will be broadcasting the Cyclo-cross World Championships from Tabor, Czech Republic online January 31. The broadcast will be featuring the elite men’s and women’s races at 12 noon (ET), while the rest of the races will be offered on […]
With just two days before the Cyclocross World Championships, Belgian champion Sven Nys has made his predictions for the race, according to Het Nieuwsblad. At a press conference in a café in the Czech town of Sobeslav, Nys expressed hopes […]
The Cyclocross World Championships will take place in Louisville, Kentucky in 2013, the UCI confirmed today. The venue of the Derby City Cup round of the USGP of Cyclocross is to play host to the first time the championships have been […]
A cursory look at the final World Cup standings of the year would lead you to one conclusion: the winner of the women’s World Cyclocross Championships in Tabor, Czech Republic this weekend will be wearing the orange of the Netherlands. […]
The final World Cup race of the 2009/10 season was the last rendezvous before the coming weekend’s World Championships in Tabor, Czech Republic. Three, or possibly four, names identify themselves as the outstanding favourites for the men’s race; names that have […]
One year after Niels Albert won the Cyclocross World Championships in Hoogerheide he returned to the Dutch site to win the final round of the World Cup, his fourth victory in the competition. After an exciting hour-long battle, he left Fidea […]
Sven Nys dominated the Kasteelcross in Zonnebeke and won ahead of Dieter Vanthourenhout and Bart Wellens. Some of his toughest rivals skipped the race, including Niels Albert, who is still suffering from his rib injury that he received after he […]
According to Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws, the International Cycling Union’s (UCI) cyclo-cross coordinator Peter Van den Abeele has confirmed the possibility of the Cyclo-cross World Championships being held in the United States in 2013. The decision on a venue […]
Belgian national cyclocross coach Rudy De Bie is hopeful that World Champion Niels Albert can recover from his broken rib in time to defend his rainbow jersey in Tabor, Czech Republic on January 31st. De Bie, in an interview with […]
Having won the World Cup race in Roubaix last season, in almost identically muddy conditions, Katie Compton (Planet Bike) was a surprise non-starter in Sunday’s race. Instead of racing to a win in the conditions she loves the US champion […]
The seven-man Belgian team for the World Championships in Tabor, Czech Republic at the end of the month has been announced by head coach Rudy De Bie, and – as usual – it is not without controversy. Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) […]
The accident that brought down Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) in the previous weekend’s Belgian Championships is still being felt, as the World Champion was forced to resort to painkillers in order to ride yesterday’s World Cup race in Roubaix, France. “After […]
Zdenek Stybar rode a brilliant race to win the penultimate round of the cyclocross World Cup in Roubaix, France. Klaas Vantornout finished second, ahead of Sven Nys. With his win, Stybar took over the World Cup lead from Niels Albert, […]
Niels Albert will be riding in the cyclocross World Cup race on Sunday in Roubaix, France. An injection into the skin near his broken rib has relieved some of the pain. Albert was initially reluctant to such treatment. “He reacted […]
