Posted: Wed, Feb 11th
The Explainer - Whose blood is it anyway?Dear Explainer,I just read that Alejandro Valverde is being brought before CONI in relation to Tour blood samples being linked via DNA to Puerto samples collected. I was just wondering how it is that an Italian Olympic Committee can pursue charges on a Spanish rider in ...
Posted: Wed, Feb 4th
The Explainer - What's in a name?Dear Explainer guy,This isn’t your garden variety “explain the unexplainable” type question, but I thought I’d send it in anyway.
Most of us readers know, more or less, what companies certain team sponsors are, like Columbia, Garmin and Cervelo. And we know, ...
Posted: Tue, Feb 3rd
A weekend in HoogerheideWhile usually stuck at his keyboard, VeloNews.com senior editor Charles Pelkey did manage to get out and snap a few pictures while in Hoogerheide, the Netherlands, covering the world cyclocross championships over the weekend of January 31 and February 1, 2009.
Posted: Sun, Feb 1st
Belgium's Niels Albert wins cyclocross worlds ahead of Stybar, Nys and WellensBelgian Niels Albert may have some reason to thank his Dutch rival Lars Boom for his win in the elite men’s event at the world cyclocross championships in Hoogerheide, the Netherlands, on Sunday.
The defending world champion didn’t even come close to affecting the race on ...
Posted: Sun, Feb 1st
Marianne Vos wins the worlds in her home country, outsprinting Hanka Kupfernagel and Katie ComptonThere’s an old Dutch saying that notes that when two dogs are fighting for a bone, it’s often the third dog that ends up getting it.
Holland’s Marianne Vos may have remembered that old line when she sat firmly in the middle of what appeared to be a battle for the ...
Posted: Sat, Jan 31st
Germany's Philipp Walsleben solos in to the U23 winAsk Germany’s Philipp Walsleben which cyclocross races he hasn’t won as an Under-23 this season and takes him a bit to answer.
“I think it’s three this season,” he answers with some hesitation, “but that’s as an U23 rider. I still have long way to go as ...
Posted: Sat, Jan 31st
Netherlands' Eising cruises to junior 'cross titleDutchman Tijmen Eising continued his season-long romp through the junior ranks of international cyclocross, riding away from the field within the first 300 meters of the world championship in Hoogerheide, the Netherlands, on Saturday.
Eising, the overall World Cup champion ...
Posted: Fri, Jan 30th
Hoogerheide: It depends on the weatherThe weather in Hoogerheide, Holland, has improved over the last few days … and that may have as much to do with the outcome of this weekend’s world cyclocross championships than the relative fitness of individual riders.
“We’re by the ocean,” said British Cycling ...
Posted: Wed, Jan 28th
The Explainer - When strict liability ain't that strictDear Explainer,
Posted: Fri, Jan 23rd
Jonathan Page clearedFormer U.S. national cyclocross champion Jonathan Page has been cleared of charges stemming from a missed in-competition doping test, but it may be a week before he knows whether that will result in his inclusion on the U.S. team for the upcoming world championships.
Posted: Thu, Jan 22nd
Rasmussen's appeal rejectedThe International Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected Michael Rasmussen’s challenge that his two-year suspension for a doping-related offense was too severe.
The sporting world’s final court of appeals ruled that a two-year ban originally handed down by Monaco’s ...
Posted: Wed, Jan 21st
The Explainer - Too much yellow?Explainer,While the new Columbia kit may represent good graphic design, why does the Tour de France (Amaury Sport Organization) and the UCI, for that matter, allow yellow uniforms? With Saunier Duval already among the 189 riders that constitute the TDF peloton, even an ...
