Cycling News

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 Swiss rider Dario Lillo finished the 2024 UCI MTB World Cup season in style, sweeping the XCC and XCO races at the final round at Mont-Sainte-Anne, Québec. Australian Sascha Kim and France's Remi Thirion also earned multiple podium finishes this year. Lillo had already been enjoying a consistent first half of the season, culminating in a strong showing at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Andorra, where he piloted his Anthem Advanced 29 race bike to a silver medal in the U23 cross-country Olympic (XCO) race, just 21 seconds away from winning the rainbow jersey. He also...

Monday, September 16, 2024 Australian Michael Matthews of Team Jayco AlUla took victory at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, winning the uphill bunch sprint from a group of 35 riders. Matthews won the hilly and fast-paced 201km race, one of two Canadian UCI WorldTour races, ahead of Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty), who in July won three stages and the points classification at the Tour de France. In the closing kilometers, pre-race favorites Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) and defending champion Arnaud De Lie (Lotto Dstny) attacked at the base of the final 1km climb up Montée du Fort, but...

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 Jenn Jackson earns her third national title by winning the Canadian Cross-Country Marathon (XCM) Mountain Bike National Championships, in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Jenn Jackson of Liv Factory Racing continues to solidify her dominance in the Canadian mountain biking scene, adding another national title to her growing list of accomplishments. Jackson took the win at the Canadian Cross-Country Marathon (XCM) Mountain Bike National Championships, earning the prestigious title of National Champion and the privilege to wear the maple leaf jersey in the XCM discipline. After winning the national titles in Cross-Country Circuit (XCC) and Cross-Country Olympic (XCO) earlier this year, this latest...

Monday, September 9, 2024 Irish rider Eddie Dunbar soloed to a second stage victory at the Vuelta a España over the weekend, bringing the total number of stage wins taken aboard Giant bicycles to five out of 21, more than any other bike brand. In a thrilling finale on the brutally steep gradients of the Picón Blanco, the final summit finish of this year’s final Grand Tour, the Team Jayco AlUla rider attacked from a powerful group of GC favorites with just under 5km remaining and quickly opened a substantial 15-second gap. Piloting his Propel Advanced SL bike with a CADEX Max 40...

Thursday, September 5, 2024 Urko Berrade gave the Kern Pharma team its third stage win at the Vuelta a España, winning Stage 18 from a breakaway to continue the upstart Giant-sponsored team’s storybook run at the Spanish grand tour. Four of the top-10 finishers on Stage 18 were all on Giant Propel Advanced SL bikes with CADEX WheelSystems, with Mauro Schmid from Team Jayco AlUla finishing second. Berrade’s teammates Pablo Castrillo and Pau Miquel were also in the front group, finishing eighth and ninth respectively. Castrillo Climbs to New Heights Berrade’s victory follows two incredible stage wins from his teammate Castrillo, who broke through for...