Columbia-HTC’s Ellen Van Dijk won the U23 women’s individual time trial at the European championships for the second consecutive year on Wednesday. The Netherlands’ Van Dijk completed the 28-kilometre course in Hooglede-Gits, Belgium with a time of 36:41, besting Sweden’s Emilia Fahlin, her Columbia-HTC teammate, by 20 seconds. “I am very happy, of course,” said Van Dijk. After suffering a concussion from a crash in the Ronde Van Gelderland in April, Van Dijk was unable to race or train …
An elderly man lost control of his vehicle and crashed into the podium stage while the Junior men’s time trial was taking place at the European Championships in Hooglede-Gits, Belgium on Wednesday. “A man of about 75 years lost control of his vehicle after confusing his brake and accelerator,” Rik Debeausaert, president of the event’s organising committee, told Nieuwsblad.be. “The car was finally halted at the stage. Fortunately there was only minor damage and no riders were affected. …
The provisional start list for the Tour de France is complete, following Caisse d’Epargne’s announcement of their nine-man roster on Tuesday. Belgian squad Quick Step is the only team expected to make a final adjustment to their squad pending the decision of a French court on its sprinter, Tom Boonen. The Chambre Arbitrale Fran
A Pennsylvania judge dismissed on Wednesday the lawsuit of a cyclist paralyzed from the sternum down in a crash which occurred during the 2005 Tour de ‘Toona. Sarah Scott, 31, had sued the Tour de ‘Toona, the Altoona Bicycle Club and its president, Larry Bilotto, USA Cycling, the Pennsylvania DOT and Huston Township for damages from an accident in which she rode off the course into a three-foot-deep ditch. Tim Sullivan, the Blair County, Pennsylvania, judge who issued the decision, stated that the …
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Luxembourger Kim Kirchen could well be one of the dark horse contenders for this year’s Tour de France.
Despite staging a successful inaugural round of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Pietermaritzburg this past April, South Africa was cut from the 2010 World Cup schedule. The lack of a replacement title sponsor World Cup after 2009 forced the UCI to scale back its 2010 edition of the world’s most prestigious mountain bike racing series. That means venues like South Africa, Australia and Canada will lose out
