Category: Racing
Those who like to ride and/or carry their bicycles up and over muddy hills or along grassy tracks are probably rejoicing to hear that the UCI World Cyclocross Championships are coming to Louisville, Kentucky, in 2013.
Historically popular in Belgium, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, cyclocross has been gaining popularity around the world, especially in the US. The interest will probably grow here, as 2013 will be the first time that the World cyclocross championships have come to the US.
In fact, it's the first time the Worlds have been held outside Europe in 50 years.
If you want to see what World championship cyclocross is all about, check out Universal Sports Cyclocross online this weekend.
The website is offering free live coverage of the elite men's and women's races from Tabor, Czech Republic, beginning at noon (ET) on Sunday, Jan. 31. Other webcasts are on demand
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/29/world-cyclocross-championships-come-to-us-in-2013/
It's good to see a cyclist finally named as an Athlete of the Decade.
No. It's not Lance Armstrong, who got squeezed out by a golfer in the Associated Press and USA Today polls.
We're talking about world champion track cyclist Marty Nothstein of Trexlertown, Pennsylvania. The 38-year-old got the nod from the editors at the Allentown (PA) Morning Call this week.
Nothstein grew up racing at the velodrome in Trexlertown and used that experience to earn an Olympic gold medal and win three world championships and 34 gold medals at US National Championships ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/29/cyclist-wins-male-athlete-of-the-decade/
Organizers for the Vuelta a Espana, the last of the trio of Grand Tours, announced a 2,068-mile route for the bike race in 2010.
While much will be made about the mountain stages and the reduction of time trials to just two, this Vuelta may best be remembered for changing the color of the leader's jersey from golden to red.
As last year's Vuelta winner, Alejandro Valverde will be the first to wear the red jersey when the bike race begins in Seville on Aug. 28.
The opener is an evening team time trial, one of only two time trial in this year's race (the other is on Stage 17. The bike race ends in Madrid on Sept. 19 …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/16/route-announced-for-2010-vuelta-a-espana/
Podium Cafe lists a couple of dozen quotes uttered by current and former pro cyclists during the past year and asks for our favorite.
The list has a few Lance Armstrong tweets about Alberto Contador being a “pistolero” and having “lots to learn.” Jens Voigt and Bradley Wiggins also are well represented.
My favorite, though, comes from Bernard Hinault, the 5-time winner of the Tour de France who commented on the earpiece radios now worn by cyclists to communicate with the team manager:
“I am against them. It is just a 'Game Boy' that has a gigolo attached at the end telling the racer when to take a piss.” …..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/15/pick-your-bike-racer-quote-of-the-year/
Ever since Lance Armstrong announced the formation of Team RadioShack in July, the confirmed identities of bike riders on the roster have dribbled out like sprinters struggling across the finish of a mountain stage.
Team manager Johan Bruyneel has now announced the final roster, identifying a 26-man team from 16 different countries. A large percentage of those bike riders came from Bruyneel's and Armstrong's former team, Astana.
The delay in making a final announcement stemmed from ongoing negotiations with the Kazakhstan-based team, currently the home of two-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador.
Bruyneel said the team's main goal in 2010 is the Tour de France, although the team is expected to do well in other stage races as well as the one-day classics …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/11/24/radioshack-roster-set-with-armstrong-leipheimer-horner-kloden/
Olympic and two-time world gold medalist Kristin Armstrong is preparing for life after pro cycling.
The 36-year-old from Boise, Idaho, carried out her planned retirement after winning a gold medal in the time trial event at the World Championships in Switzerland in September. That honor went right up on the shelf beside her World gold in 2006 and the Olympic gold in the time trial in 2008.
Now she's working with a speaking coach to possibly launch a career as a motivational speaker and TV cycling commentator. Quoted by the AP:
“If a woman can commentate in the NFL, why can’t a woman commentate for the Tour de France? I have the medals. Now I have to make that happen. ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/10/31/commentating-career-for-gold-medal-cyclist-kristin-armstrong/
Congratulations to Garmin Slipstream's sprinter Tyler Farrar.
The 25-year-old from Wenatchee, Washington, scored more points than any other US cyclist on the UCI's individual world rankings. Topping the virtual podium were Tour de France winner Alberto Contador, Alejandro Valverde and Samuel Sanchez, all from Spain.
Farrar has 9 first-place finishes in 2009 and won the Circuit Franco Belge and Delta Tour Zeeland stage races. He accumulated 212 points, to put him in 18th.
Comeback cyclist Lance Armstrong (Astana) finished 31st . ..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/10/20/tyler-farrar-is-top-us-cyclist-on-world-ranking/
Let's hope the bike racers competing in events on the 2010 National Racing Calendar aren't in it for the dough, because there's less prize money to go around this year.
USA Cycling says the overall prize list for the 27 bike races on this year's calendar is $981,310, down about $150,000 from last year's final total prize package.
The total amount is about $400,000 less than what was promised at the beginning of the 2009 season, but seven of those races fell off the calendar, reducing the total by about $250,000, says USA Cycling.
The calendar comprises 15 criteriums, 8 multi-stage races …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/10/17/less-prize-money-in-the-pot-for-usa-bike-racing-this-year/
An updated edition of “Major Taylor, The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World” by Andrew Ritchie may start a discussion of who is America's greatest cyclist.
Although this summer's book by John Wilcockson calls Lance Armstrong “The World's Greatest Champion,” you can make the argument that Marshall “Major” Taylor should hold that title, at least during his time.
Armstrong survived cancer to go on to win 7 Tours de France, but Taylor also became a champion in spite of huge obstacles.
As an African-American setting records in cycling at the turn of the century, Major Taylor faced incredible discrimination and hardships. He rose above that to become world renown in one of the bigggest sports on Earth at the time. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/10/09/new-biography-examines-life-of-bike-racer-major-taylor/
Australia's Cadel Evans finished a disappointing year on a high note by winning the road race of the UCI Road World Championships on Sunday in Switzerland.
Evans, who started turning his pro cycling season around with a third place podium finish at the Vuelta a Espana a week ago, won the rainbow jersey in Mendrisio with a commanding solo charge across the finish line.
He finished 27 seconds ahead of Russian Alexandr Kolobnev and Spain's Joaquin Rodriguez and became Australia's first-ever road World Champion.
After the finish, Evans said he looked forward to defending his title on home soil ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/09/27/cadel-evans-wins-road-race-at-world-championships/
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