Rabobank is planning to add an off-road team to its current road operation. The plan is to have a mountain bike team as well as a cyclocross section. Richard Groenendaal is the natural choice to be a directeur sportif, along […]
Two riders from the Milram ProTour team will be taking the start in the 35th Frankfurt cyclo-cross race this Sunday. For Paul Voß, who last year was second on the Bornheimer Hang, he will be making the race his first of the […]
They are more accustomed to slugging it out on roads around Europe, but this Saturday some of the top sprinters and Classic riders will fight against each other in a cyclo-cross race to be held in Mol in Belgium. Tom […]
Jan Verstraeten missed the cross World Cup race in Koksijde due to the return of Bart Wellens, after the latter had recovered from a long viral infection. Now Verstraeten was nominated for the next round of the World Cup in […]
A disastrous first lap could have cost US champion Katie Compton (Planet Bike) dearly in Saturday’s cyclocross World Cup race in Koksijde, Belgium. Her strength and determination came into play though, and she managed to salvage a fighting third place […]
Belgian Champion Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet-Colnago) took a historical 50th career Superprestige victory today’s in Gieten. Northern Holland’s muddy fields created a difficult race that saw a strong Kevin Pauwels (Telenet-Fidea) claim second after passing a fading Niels Albert (BKCP-powerplus) who […]
Bart Wellens (Fidea) made a successful return yesterday in Koksijde, Belgium during the fourth World Cup after cytomegalovirus forced him out of competition for several months. “This leaves me with a satisfied feeling,” he told Sporza. The former World Champion […]
Czeck Zdenek Štybar (Telenet-Fidea) continued his string of success today in the season’s fourth World Cup event in Koksijde, Belgium, beating Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet-Colnago) in a sprint with Klaas Vantornout (Sunweb Pro Job) rounding out the podium just behind. The […]
As her road race rivals know well, the sight of a finish line prompts a turn of speed in Marianne Vos that is very, very hard to deal with. Dutch compatriot Daphy Van de Brand got to see this firsthand […]
Zdenek Stybar (Telenet-Fidea) has won this afternoon’s Superprestige in Hamme-Zogge, capping off a successful weekend that also included a win in yesterday’s GP Hasselt. The young Czech proved to be too strong in the final sprint against Belgian champion Sven […]
Bart Wellens had hoped to make his return in Saturday’s World Cup at Koksijde after suffering with cytomegalovirus, a viral infection that kept him off the bike for months. Several of his colleagues aren’t as thrilled about his return and […]
Dutch National cyclo cross champion Lars Boom wants to defend his title on January 10 in Heerlen. The race in Sint-Michielsgestel on January 3 should warm him up for that. Boom, riding for Rabobank, is focusing his efforts on the […]
Zdenek Stybar finished on the podium no less than 12 times in 13 races this season, but today in Hasselt, Belgium, he finally came out on top. Stybar beat his Telenet-Fidea teammate Kevin Pauwels and dominator Niels Albert in the […]
Bart Wellens and Sven Vanthourenhout are ready to return to the Belgian cross scene. Wellens will return to the World Cup race in Koksijde on November 28, while Vanthourenhout starts already this weekend in Hasselt and Hamme-Zogge. Wellens suffered from […]
The third Superpresitge in Aspere-Gavere was marked by cold rains and thick mud, but there was an absence of the jeering that had caused Niels Albert to threaten to leave cyclo-cross following last Wednesday’s Jaarmarkt Cross in Niel, Belgium. “In […]
According to Sporza, Enrico Franzoi has signed with World Champion Niels Albert’s BKCP-Power Plus team. The 27-year-old Italian who was third behind Albert in the Grand Prix de la Region Wallon over the weekend closed the deal Monday. Team manager […]
Niels Albert won the Superprestige in Asper-Gavere on a very tough parcours. Albert profited from the bad luck of Sven Nys, who caught Albert with less than three laps to go, but almost immediately suffered from a flat tire. The […]
Enrico Franzoi is close to signing a contract with Belgium’s BKCP Powerplus, the team of World Champion Niels Albert. The Italian had been in negotiations with rival Belgian cyclo-cross squad Sunweb-Projob, but the deal failed to materialize. “Franzoi is going […]
