The 2010 Tour of the Battenkill in Cambridge, New York has received for the first time a place on the International Cycling Union (UCI) calendar and has expanded to two weekends. The five-year-old event, the largest one-day race in North American with over 1,500 registrants in 2009, will have a pro/am and amateur races on Saturday, April 10 and the UCI 1.2-sanctioned professional men’s invitational the following weekend on Sunday, April 18. The Tour of the Battenkill is labeled ‘America’s Queen …
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The USA Cycling 24-hour National Championships are coming up next month in Moab, Utah. The October 10-11 event is being held in conjunction with the popular 24 hours of Moab in Utah. Thirteen titles – a mix of individual and team – will be awarded to newly crowned national champions. Chris Eatough and Pua Sawicki are just two of the favorites for the solo men’s and women’s titles. Eatough, who won Moab in 2007, will compete in the final race of his professional career. He will face challenges from …
The International Mountain Bike Association (IMBA) is supporting its sixth annual International Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day (TAKMBD) on Saturday, October 3, 2009. Rides are being organized by mountain bike clubs around the globe. At many events, local clubs, bike shops and volunteers will teach kids mountain bike skills, bike safety and lead group rides. Many will offer free helmets, stickers and other prizes for participating. The day celebrates the life of Jack Doub, an avid teenage mountain …
Road racer Francisco Mancebo proved that he is also fast offroad by winning the Spanish marathon national championships, with over 1,700 participants, in Cordoba on Sunday. The Spaniard, who races on the road for Rock Racing, raced his mountain bike for 85km to claim the national title. Mancebo finished in a time of 3:17:53, 1:13 ahead of runner-up Marc Trayter (Commen
The UCI’s License Commission announced today that it will not award ProTour licenses to the French teams Cofidis, le cr
Lance Armstrong’s Trek-Livestrong team will act as a feeder squad for Team RadioShack in the coming years, with the U23 team already confirming that half the roster will change for 2010. Speaking to team director Axel Merckx at the Interbike Trade Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Belgian outlined the team’s plans for next year. “RadioShack will be a sponsor [of the Under-23 team] for next year. We’ll share some responsibilities and for me it’s also great to have Johan Bruyneel as a sounding board …
2006 Tour de France winner Oscar Pereiro has revealed that he has had “contacts” with the Xacobeo-Galicia team with a view to ending his racing career with them in either 2010 or 2011. Speaking to the El Faro de Vigo newspaper in his home region of Galicia, the 32-year-old Caisse d’Epargne rider also said that the mental and physical problems that led to his unexpected and premature retirement from the Tour de France in July are now behind him. Pereiro admitted that there was some …
Vacansoliel has received wild card invitations to the Giro di Lombardia, October 17, and the Giro del Piemonte, October 15.
After already having had to pull out of the British Worlds team for Mendrisio, Mark Cavendish will not be able to participate in Paris-Tours, taking place on October 11. The Columbia-HTC sprinter is still suffering from a lung infection, the same illness that saw him pull out of the Tour of Missouri earlier this month. Moreover, the 2009 season must have been tiring for Cavendish, who sprinted to victory an amazing 23 times this year. “It’s been a long season for Cavendish to also take on Paris-Tours …
