After 12 years as a professional cyclist, Leah Kirchmann will hang up her wheels at the end of 2022; with the Simac Ladies Tour her last planned race with Team DSM before she races the World Championships with Canada. Spending time with Colavita Forno D’Asolo as her first team before four years honing her craft on the American racing scene with Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies; Kirchmann made the move across the pond fully to join the Team DSM structure in 2016, then known as Team Liv-Plantur. Immediately finding her feet with the team, 2016 saw the punchy Kirchmann take…
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Henri Giroud
Fifty years of pro cycling journalism and television commentary. It gets easier after the first forty years.
Global travel and VIP experience provider Sportive Breaks has been appointed as the Official Fan and Amateur Participant Travel Provider of the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships. The 2023 UCI Cycling Worlds are set to take place in Glasgow and across Scotland from 3rd to 13th August 2023. Sportive Breaks has a wealth of experience working across major events and will provide fans and amateur participants with travel, accommodation, and VIP experiences the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships. The event will be the first of its kind, combining 13 existing UCI World Championships into one mega-event. In uniting the global…
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces that the Colombian rider Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas has been sanctioned for an infringement of the in-competition ban on using tramadol as set out in the UCI Medical Rules with the aim of protecting the safety and health of riders in light of the side-effects of this substance. The analyses of two dried blood samples provided by the rider on 8 and 13 July during the 2022 Tour de France revealed the presence of tramadol and its two main metabolites. In accordance with the UCI Medical Rules, the rider is disqualified from the 2022…
XTERRA returns to Zittau, Germany for the 20th time with an action-packed weekend of Short Track and full distance off-road triathlon racing this Friday and Saturday, August 19-20. 📺 Watch it on Cyclry 📺Live coverage starts Friday, August 19 at 3:20 pm CEST As the name suggests, Friday’s XTERRA Short Track race is a fast, multi-lap, made-for-TV event combining two 200-meter swim laps with an exit in-between, four 1.5km mountain bike laps complete with jumps and berms, and two 1.3km run loops. Winning times are in the 30-40 minute range. While the Short Track showcase is an invite-only event for…
Sandra Mairhofer (ITA) and Lukas Kocar (CZE) won the second round of the XTERRA Short Track off-road triathlon series with winning times of 40:43 and 34:31, respectively, on a beautiful day in Prachatice, Czech Republic on Sunday, August 14, 2022. It’s the first XTERRA Short Track win for Mairhofer, who captured the full-distance XTERRA European Championship race yesterday, and the second for Kocar – who won his first in Germany last year. 🔗 XTERRA’s Facebook has a full replay of both races 🔗 The race combined a two-lap, 400-meter swim with an exciting four-lap, 7.6K mountain bike course and a…
Dan Bigham will attempt to break the UCI Hour Record on 19 August at the Tissot Velodrome in Grenchen (Switzerland). The greatest distance covered in one hour currently stands at 55.089 km. This record was established by Belgian Victor Campenaerts on 16 April 2019 at the Velodromo Bicentenario in Aguascalientes (Mexico). Dan Bigham, who is performance engineer for UCI WorldTeam INEOS Grenadiers, currently holds the British Hour Record of 54.723 km. He set this record on 1st October last year in Grenchen, breaking Bradley Wiggins’ six-year reign as the fastest British rider over one hour. Bigham said: “I’m excited about…
The 4th edition of GFNY Bali took place on “The Island of the Gods” last Sunday, with a record participation of 1500 cyclists from 14 countries. Supported by hundreds of Bali’s Police monitoring intersections along the entire course, both long and medium course cyclists had a fast start from the historic Klungkung, along Bali’s eastern coast. The course took athletes from sea level all the way up to the crater rim of Mount Agung at 1360 m, one of Bali’s highest peaks. 2020 3rd place finisher Mohamad Faisal took the win in 3:50:57h, a minute ahead of 2020 runner-up Erlangga…
Aaron Gate has won the 2022 Commonwealth Games Road Race, his fourth medal of this year’s games. This gold medal also took New Zealand to its highest ever medal tally of 18. Great riding, boss. Results Results powered by FirstCycling.com