Feb 16, 2024 at 7:57 PM Update: 10 minutes ago Six-time Olympic champion Chris Hoy announced on Friday that he had been diagnosed with cancer. The British former track cyclist initially wanted to keep his diagnosis private, but now feels forced to share it with the outside world. “For the sake of my young family, … Read more
With 4 disciplines spread over 2 days, the women have their mini version of the Six Days of Ghent. “That’s enough in the middle of our winter,” chuckles Lotte Kopecky. “During this period I maintain my feeling on the slopes and this comes in handy.” The decibel meter clearly went into the red when the … Read more
At the age of thirty, he had already been voted Coach of the Year twice. Nevertheless, Hugo Haak abruptly said goodbye to the track sprinters at the end of 2021, because he was empty. He is back at the World Cup in Glasgow, but as an assistant. Just before the decisive heat of the sprint … Read more
It took the final two rounds of the World Championship points race to make the decision and to crown Neah Evans. At that moment the Danish Julie Leth was leading the dance, already an American bronze medalist last Saturday, she who had been the most restless, with two laps taken by the group (synonymous with … Read more
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Belgium had never delivered a European champion in the points race. Kenny De Ketele, now national coach, had already been good for silver twice. His poulain and ex-couple race mate Robbe Ghys proved from the first sprints that he could at least match his master in Munich. Ghys towered over it with world champion and … Read more
In 2021, the Italian pistards returned to the country with a basket of medals furnished like the hood of Santa Claus. Olympic and world champions in team pursuit with stratospheric times, bronze in the omnium for Elia Viviani in Tokyo and nine other charms at the Roubaix Worlds (three gold: Elia Viviani and Letizia Paternoster … Read more
He started with BMX … Before donning a tight suit and a contoured helmet, Harrie Lavreysen made a name for herself in BMX. Sacred European junior champion three times between 2011 and 2013, the Dutchman is predicted to have a great future in this sport but suffers the law of injuries. Practicing a discipline marked … Read more
After bronze on the omnium the day before, Elia Viviani won the gold medal in the elimination race this Sunday, at the end of the World Championships on the Roubaix track. The Italian dominated Iuri Leitao and Sergei Rostovstsev. Passed a gut of elimination in the middle of the race, the Cofidis rider concluded perfectly … Read more
The German Lisa Brennauer became, at 33, world champion in the individual pursuit, Saturday evening, at the Roubaix velodrome. In a 100% German final, Brennauer was clearly more than four seconds behind her younger brother Franziska Brausse (22), in the time of 3 min 18 sec 258 over the 3 km standing start. The German … Read more