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Reigning U23 road race, time trial and criterium champion Emma White (Rally Cycling) will make her track racing debut this weekend at the Milton World Cup in Canada as part of the USA Cycling womens Team Pursuit squad. White, a three-time junior cyclo-cross national champion who was third in the U23 race last year, decided to forgo her cyclo-cross endeavours this year in favour of picking up track racing with an eye toward the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. White got her first taste of the track...
After announcing his upcoming departure from USA Cycling, Derek Bouchard-Hall will take on a new role as the CEO of Swiss-cycling brand Assos, effective January 1, 2019. Bouchard-Hall will see though his current position as president and CEO of the federation to the end of this year. Deciding to leave USA Cycling was the hardest professional decision of my life, but after all we’ve achieved the past three years, I’m confident in the team’s continued success, Bouchard-Hall said in a report on Cy...
Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) will have a street named after him in Murcia following his victory in the elite mens road race at the UCI Road World Championships last month. It was announced on Monday that the Avenida de Alicante - the main road running into the city from the northeast - will be renamed the Avenida Alejandro Valverde. Whether by design or by chance, the newly named road will intersect with another piece of Spanish cycling history, the Avenida Miguel Indurain. While five-time To...
They say it is hard to keep a good man down and, less than three months after losing part of his right leg following a mountaineering accident, Adrien Costa is back on the bike and the climbing wall. Photos published on Instagram by his former Hagens Berman Axeon teammate Chris Blevins show the 21-year-old out training on his bike and using a climbing wall, all-the-while showing off his new prosthetic leg. I’ve always been impressed by this guy, but in the past couple months I’ve found a new l...
Full details of the 2019 Tour de France route will be unveiled in Paris on Thursday but photographs have emerged on social media of the new steeper, dirt-road finish on La Planche des Belles Filles, with the final kick up to the finish line at 24 per cent. The climb in the Vosges is expected to be the first mountain-top finish of the 2019 Tour de France, coming on stage 6 next July. The Tour de France has finished atop La Planche des Belles Filles three times. Chris Froome was the first winner...
The legal dispute between Wout van Aert and Sniper Cycling reached the courts for the first time today, with lawyers meeting to set the wheels in motion on a process that could drag on to the end of the 2019 season. Van Aert terminated his contract with the Verandas Willems-Crelan team - owned by Sniper Cycling - in September, voicing his displeasure at being kept out of the loop as the team grappled to secure a merger with other Pro Continental teams. The team, run by Nick Nuyens, soon announc...