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November 19, 2011.

Pauwels pips Stybar in sprint

Two years after being beaten on the line in Hasselt, Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor) returned to the town in Flanders to beat current cyclo-cross world champion Zdenek Stybar (Quick Step Cycling Team), this time in a four-man sprint with Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) and Tom Meeusen (Telenet-Fidea).

November 20, 2011

Team Type 1 at the Tour of Rwanda for charity and victory

At the end of September, Kiel Reijnen was still fighting for his health as he tried to be a cyclist again. His first season with Team Type 1 had suddenly stopped after seven months because of an unknown virus or bacteria, mononucleosis like, which confined him to complete rest.

Born in Bainbridge Island, Washington, and now based in Boulder, Colorado, Reijnen had started his schedule in France with GP Marseillaise, Etoile de Bessèges and Tour of Haut Var. The 19th of February, the headline of the last post on his blog summarizes the whole fight of his season: “The hardest part of being an athlete”.

November 21, 2011

Popovych to help Cancellara at Flanders and Roubaix

Yaroslav Popovych has announced that the Spring Classics will be his first goals for the 2012 season. The Ukraninian, a member of the new RadioShack-Nissan team, will be putting his talents to the service of FabianCancellara, joining the team from the merging Leopard-Trek squad.

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2nd November, 2011
Classics, Giro and Vuelta for Rodriguez in 2012
Joaquin Rodriguez is looking forward continuing with Katusha in 2012, which he says will become “more international” under new team manger Hans-Michael Holczer. He hopes to finally win one of the Classics, but will once again skip the Tour de France, concentrating instead on the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España.


4th November, 2011

Tour of Southland continues after winter weather

The organisers of New Zealand's PowerNet Tour of Southland were forced to cancel the stage seven individual time trial after winter weather blew in, making the 12.8km course unsafe.

Josh Atkins (PowerNet) will carry the race leader's jersey into the final stage to Invercargill, which will start on time at 1:30pm as planned.

7th November, 2011

Hoy pride at UCI World Cup gold

Britain's multiple Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy had a productive weekend at the opening round of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Kazakhstan by adding a gold and silver medal to his already bulging trophy cabinet.

Hoy put aside his disappointment at missing out on the European Championships last month, where a chest infection forced his absence, by racing to gold in the men's sprint event on Sunday just 24 hours after claiming the silver medal in the keirin.

15th November, 2011

BMC, RadioShack and Sky will dominate 2012, Holm says

The 2012 season will be dominated by three “super teams”, according to Brian Holm. BMC Racing Team, RadioShack-Nissan and Sky will be the teams to look up to in the coming season.

Holm, formerly sport director at HTC-Highroad, and with Omega Pharma-Quick Step as of 2012, told politiken.dk that, “There is not doubt that next year we are faced with three super teams, BMC, RadioShack-Nissan and Sky."

Local News:

Childrens Day Ride : The ride is organized by  Vishal Sharma for children to celebrate Children's Day and have fun with their friends and experience the joy of cycling.

Date : 20th November, 2011 & Time :7am to 9:30am onwards

Venue : Relief Road.

Land Mark : Next to SNDT College, Juhu

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25th October, 2011
Thomas chooses Olympics over Tour de France
The track events at the  London 2012 Olympics have priority for Geraint Thomas over the Tour de France. The Sky rider has said that he will ride the Giro d'Italia next year and skip the Tour so that he can do as well as possible in the London Olympics.Thomas took gold in the team pursuit on the track in Beijing in 2008, and will follow the same routine. "I'm going to be doing similar preparations to before Bejing when I rode the Giro and didn't ride the tour," said Thomas to BBC Sport Wales.

27th October, 2011

UCI releases top 15 teams toward World Tour

The UCI today released its top 15 teams according to its sporting criteria, a calculation of points accrued during the 2010 and 2011 seasons by riders which are included in their 2012 rosters.These teams will automatically earn World Tour licenses if they meet the UCI's other licensing criteria.A notable absence on the list of teams 16th-20th in the rankings, who will vie for the final three of the 18 spots on the WorldTour, is the Skil - Shimano team, Project 1t4i, the only team which had applied for the WorldTour but failed to make the list.

29th October, 2011

Roulston confirms with RadioShack for 2012

Hayden Roulston has confirmed that he will ride with RadioShack-Nissan-Trek in the coming year. He is already planning his season for the Spring Classics and the build-up to a gold medal at the London Olympics."I'm really excited to finally confirm my future," Roulston said. "This is a great move which enables me to have the best of both worlds and I can't stress how important that is to me."

31st October, 2011

Livestrong's early finish leads Lewis down unexpected roads

When Joe Lewis looked at his 2011 schedule with development team Trek-Livestrong, he fully expected to be racing with them well into August and perhaps even September. As a final year under 23, showcasing his talents on a world stage in the bigger races that feature at the end of the American racing calendar were crucial to launching him on the road to a professional career in 2012.

Local News:
Cycloscope : This event is organized by Track & Trail.Track and Trail and Canon are jointly organizing “Cycloscope” a photography contest on 5th of November in Delhi.Cycloscope is an attempt to bring all cycling and photography enthusiasts on a journey through the streets and alleys of Delhi. 
Time: November 5, 2011 at 7am to November 6, 2011 at 1pm
Location: Track and Trail Exclusive Store C/51 & 52, Veer Savarkar Marg, Central Market, Lajpat Nagar II
Street: Lajpat Nagar II






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18th October, 2011
2012 Tour de France route officially presented

The route of the 2012 Tour de France has been officially presented in Paris today. The parcours, which had been mistakenly published by race organiser ASO one week ago, has been confirmed and detailed. The 99th Tour de France has been elaborated to include two long time trials and 'only' three summit finishes, so next year's winner will have to be an even more complete rider than in previous years.

20th October, 2011


Sky hold onto Swift, Stannard and Kennaugh

Team Sky has announced that Ian Stannard, Ben Swift and Peter Kennaughhave all re-signed for 2012. The former Olympic Academy trio formed part of Sky’s backbone in the team’s debut season in 2010.

Swift has been the most successful in terms of wins, picking up five this season including two wins in the Tour Down Under, and a stage each in the Tour of California and Tour de Romandie. Stannard, on the other hand, took his first professional win this season at the Tour of Austria, but has become one of the team’s strongest Classics riders.


21st October, 2011
Rolland looking forward to Grand Colombier at 2012 Tour de France

A winner at Alpe d’Huez in July, Pierre Rolland (Europcar) is looking forward to testing himself on a new pass at the 2012 Tour de France, as the Col du Grand Colombier makes its long-awaited debut in La Grande Boucle.

17km in length and with slopes that pitch up to 12 percent gradient, the climb features on stage ten from Mâcon. The Col de Richmond follows immediately afterwards before a rapid descent to the finish in Belgarde-sur-Valserine.

23rd October, 2011

Keisse and De Ketele win European Madison

championship

Belgians Iljo Keisse and Kenny De Ketele took the European Madison title in Apeldoorn today, just hours after completing the Amsterdam Six Day the night before on separate teams.

Keisse wrapped up the overall victory in Amsterdam, where he helped Dutch rider Niki Terpstra to his first Six Day victory, after midnight on Saturday. The pair finished one lap up on fierce competition from Dutch pair Peter Schep and Wim Stroetinga. De Ketele's fortunes were much different - paired with young rider Barry Markus, he finished eight laps behind in seventh place in Amsterdam.

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13th October, 2011


USA Cycling reveals 2012 racing calendars
USA Cycling rolled out its revamped national calendars today, revealing a slimmed-down National Racing Calendar, stripped of the major criteriums, which have been assembled into a National Criterium Calendar.

In the 16th year for the NRC, men will have six and women will have eight events in a road race and stage race-only format. The series begins as usual with the Redlands Bicycle Classic in March, then moves to Arkansas for the Joe Martin Stage Race in April, Tour of the Gila in May and the women-only Liberty Classic in June.

15th October, 2011

No Tour of Lombardy for Cavendish

Mark Cavendish’s rainbow jersey will not be on show at the Tour of Lombardy on Saturday. He took the decision in conjunction not to start the season-ending classic with his HTC-Highroad team following his participation in Gran Piemonte on Thursday.

"We decided yesterday after Piemonte," directeur sportif Valerio Piva toldCyclingnews in Milan on Friday. "The idea in the beginning was to start Lombardy. Obviously, that’s not a race suited to Cavendish, so starting and then having to pull out after 50km wouldn’t a good situation, for him or for the race."

16th October, 2011

2012 Giro d'Italia route unveiled in Milan.

The 2012 Giro d'Italia route was officially unveiled in Milan on Sunday, and as anticipated, the corsa rosa will be a decidedly more human affair after criticism that its traditional spectacle arguably veered toward excess last May.

The race will get underway in Herning on May 5, and once again will conclude with an individual time trial in the centre of Milan three weeks later. While a healthy quota of set-piece mountain stages remain a staple of the Giro, the number of transfers has been cut dramatically, an early flight from the opening stages in Denmark back to Italy notwithstanding.

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1st October, 2011


Great Britain is planning a bid to stage the world road race championships in the next decade, with Wales, Scotland and London the likely locations, and the likelihood of a suitably ambitious bid boosted by Mark Cavendish's victory in this year's title race in Copenhagen.


3rd October 2011

McEwen's second Franco Belge victory "unexpected"

Robbie McEwen has added a fifth victory to his season tally at the Tour de Wallonie Picarde (formerly known as Circuit Franco Belge), winning the fourth and last stage as well as the overall classification of the event on Sunday. The 39-year-old sprinter took the yellow jersey off Tom Veelers (Skil-Shimano) in the ultimate sprint in Tournai, thereby sealing his second overall victory of the race as he had previously won it in 2002.

10th  October, 2011
Galimzyanov gets green with of Tour of Beijing.

Denis Galimzyanov of Katusha won the final stage of the Tour of Beijing, as Tony Martin (HTC-Columbia) took the overall win after leading the inaugural event from start to finish. Juan Jose Haedo (Saxo Bank-SunGard) and Elia Viviani (Liquigas) fininshed second and third respectively in the sprint finish near Beijing's Bird's Nest Stadium.


Local


Delhi Cycling Club : The Ring Road Ride - The ride took place in Delhi on 6th of October 2011.It is organised by Delhi Cycling Club on the occassion of Dassera.


Time & Date : October 6, 5:45am
Location : South ex. Mc Donald's/Puma and covering the whole of South to east of Delhi.

Goa Cycling Club : DAY D of DASSERA RIDE - The ride took place in dona paola and was organised by Delfim Correia Dah Silva.It was basically organised to enjoy the joy of Dassera.

Time & Date : October 6 2011, 6am to 5pm.
Location : Dona Paula & beyond








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26 September,2011.

Great Britain tops the World Championships medal table

Mark Cavendish’s victory in elite men road race gave Britain its second world title of this year’s world championships and top spot in the final medal table. Great Britain won six medals, one more than Australia and three more than third placed France.
Great Britain also won gold in the junior women road race with Lucy Garner, while Bradley Wiggins and Elinor Barker won silver medals in the elite men time trial and the junior women time trial. Emma Pooley and Andrew Fenn completed the Great Britain medal haul with bronze medals in the women’s time trial and the under 23 men road race.

29 September,2011 

Hughes aiming for her best at London Olympics

After a strong showing in the women’s road race at the UCI World Championshios, Clara Hughes is looking forward to the London 2012 Olympics, where she is aiming to ride her “best bike race yet.” The multiple Olympic medallist spent the best part of a decade out of the sport as she focused on her speed-skating career, but she returned to the highest level this season.
A bronze medallist in the time trial and road race at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Hughes went on to take four more Olympic medals as a speed-skater in the Winter Games, including gold in Turin in 2006.

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Delhi Cyclists Ride with Team T3 Brevets:

A group of enthusiastic cyclists have come together to form Team T3, an organization incorporated with an objective of promoting ultra cycling, organising cycling events, brevets and expeditions to promote cycling at large and prepare a team of finest velo-athletes to compete and win international competitions.

Time and Date : 02 October, 5.30 - 8.30 a.m
Location: Leisure Valley Park, Sector 29, Gurgaon.


COLVALE TO ASNORA AND BEYOND OFF ROAD RIDE - 32KM or MORE

This ride will take place in goa from Colvale to Ansora near Mapusa, Goa.Its an off road ride covering 32kms or more.

Date : 9th October 2011
Time : 7am to 10am
Location : Mapusa ,Goa



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