Cycling News

Monday, October 21, 2024 The 2024 Life Time Grand Prix series wrapped up at the 105-mile Big Sugar Gravel in northwest Arkansas with two Giant athletes, Brendan Johnston and Cole Paton, finishing in the top five overall—making Giant the only bike brand to place two riders in the top five of the season-long standings. Across the dusty roads and sharp rocks of the Ozark Mountains, Johnston finished third among riders competing in the Life Time Grand Prix standings, moving him up into fourth overall in the series, just ahead of Paton. Though the last part of Paton’s season was interrupted by...

Monday, October 21, 2024 Allysa Seely wins her fifth world title at the World Triathlon Para Championships in Spain, dominating the Women’s PTS2 category and capping off a successful year, after a Bronze medal at the Paris 2024 Paralympics. On October 18th, Allysa Seely secured her fifth world title at the World Triathlon Para Championships in Torremolinos, Spain. Competing in the Women’s PTS2 category, the Liv Racing Collective athlete finished in first place with a time of 01:19:23, riding the bike portion on a prototype next-generation Avow. The course presented a variety of challenges, including tight corners and speed bumps on the bike segment,...

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...