cyclocross
Rocacorba Daily
In this morning’s edition of the Rocacorba Daily news digest: Boost for anti-doping fight after agreement signed between WADA and Pfizer; MPCC suspends Neri Sottoli’s membership; Russia facing allegations of systematic doping; Cycling Australia’s Italian road base hit by thieves; Macey Stewart and Alexandra Manly join Orica-AIS; Merckx’s development team will return as Axeon in […]
The Week in Bike #46 - Let’s Play Pro Cyclist!
What better way to celebrate the busiest travel holiday in the US (Thanksgiving) than by sampling a bit of the professional cyclist lifestyle? Mercifully, the hotels and lack of leg room are short-term concerns, but both fans and riders seem likely to be under the thumb of cycling’s powers that be for quite a while to come. We […]
How The Race Was Won: Koppenbergcross
The latest stop on cyclocross’s BPost Bank Trofee series includes a portion of the famous Koppenberg from Tour of Flanders, so what better time to take a look at this unique discipline? Tactics and pack dynamics will seem familiar, but as the laps roll on, ‘cross-specific skills, well-timed attacks, and strangely enough, lapped riders will all […]
The Week in Bike #42 - Why Cook Leftovers?
As he noted on Tumblr earlier this week, Cosmo found Matthias Brändle’s Hour Record attempt a welcome distraction from stories that seem to sound…familiar around this time of year. It’s important to pick out on new distinctions in the headlines, be they different concepts in how to manage the sport, or new takes on dodging the doping rap. We […]
Australian Cyclocross National Championships 2014
The 2nd National Cyclocross championships were held on Saturday in on a sunny Adelaide winter’s day. Defending Champions Lisa Jacobs and Allan Iacuone were in attendance along with a who’s who of Australian CX, including national series leaders, April McDonough and Chris Jongewaard, and notable riders including Terri Rhodes, Melissa Anset, Adrian Jackson, Paul Redenbach […]
Rocacorba Daily
In this morning’s edition of the Rocacorba Daily news digest: Grass fire cuts short stage 4 of the Tour of the Murray River; Katrin Garfoot takes bronze in the women’s Commonwealth Games ITT; Rohan Dennis takes silver in the men’s Commonwealth Games ITT; Acquarone - “Someone forged my signature. RCS controls should have spotted it”; […]