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The top American cyclo-cross racers will assemble at the USA Cycling National Championships in Louisville on Sunday, when defending champion Katie Compton will attempt to win a record 15th consecutive title. But there will be one rider on the start line who, as a junior seven years ago, predicted she would break Comptons winning streak, and that is Ellen Noble. It would be insane, totally crazy if I won, Noble told Cyclingnews in a phone interview while she was travelling from Athens, Georgia, ...
Greg Van Avermaet has confirmed his race programme for 2019, his first season in the orange of the newly-rebranded CCC Team. The season will have a familiar feel to it, starting in Valencia before a near-complete programme of the Spring Classics, followed by the Tour de France and World Championships later in the season. Van Avermaet will pin a dossard on for the first time at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana at the start of February, as he has done for the past two years since the Tour of Q...
The memorial service for cycling broadcaster Paul Sherwen will be held on February 6, 2019, in Manchester, UK. His friend and co-commentator Phil Liggett announced the details of the service on Twitter, adding that the service will be in Manchester Cathedral. Sherwen, who was involved in 40 Tours de France as a rider and broadcaster, died of heart failure at his home in Uganda on December 2. The 62-year-old’s funeral took place in Uganda on December 6. Once again, thank you for your kind words...
For Jim Ochowicz, the whole of 2018 was a race against time in two halves – the first to save his team after the withdrawal of BMC, the second to piece together a largely new one with the backing of Polish company CCC. In Denia, Spain, this week, the whole operation came together, as riders and staff gathered for a pre-season training camp, and Ochowicz set out the teams vision and plans. There was a familiar feel as Greg Van Avermaet strolled around the lobby of the five-star Marriot La Sella ...
Sprinter Caleb Ewan has been captured in his new 2019 kit for Lotto Soudal at the teams training camp in Mallorca. With longtime fastman Andre Greipel failing to come to terms with the Belgian team and moving on to Arkea-Samsic, the 24-year-old Australian signed on after spending his first five seasons with the Orica and Mitchelton teams. Ewan is one of nine new riders to the team this year, joining Adam Blythe, Roger Kluge, Stan DeWulf, Carl Fredrik Hagen, Brent Van Moer, Brian van Goethem, Ge...
Rohan Dennis is set to line out alongside Vincenzo Nibali at the Tour de France in 2019, his debut season at Bahrain-Merida. The time trial world champion last rode the Grande Boucle in 2016 and instead competed at the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España in each of his final two years at BMC. Following the Rio 2016 Olympics, Dennis set himself the objective of exploring his potential as a general classification contender, and he was handed a protected role by BMC at the Giro. After being forced o...