Cycling News

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 After wrapping up the 2021 season with the PROFFIX Swiss Bike Cup series title, Linda Indergand picked up where she left off by winning the first Swiss Bike Cup of 2022 in Rickenbach. Indergand raced to her first win of the season over the weekend in front of a home crowd. The Liv Factory Racing athlete bested the competition by 25 seconds after seven laps of the 3.8 km course aboard her Pique Advanced Pro 29. “This was the first time PROFFIX Swiss Cup has happened in Rickenbach, and it was a really nice course with great weather,” said Indergand....

TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2022 Giant Factory Off-Road Team rider Reto Indergand turned in an impressive podium finish at the opening race of the 2022 PROFFIX Swiss Bike Cup series in Rickenbach, Switzerland. A second-place finish earned the Swiss rider some valuable UCI points ahead of the upcoming World Cup season. This year’s Swiss Cup, a competitive series with a long history dating back to 1994, kicked off with a new venue in Rickenbach. Indergand, fresh off a winter training camp with teammates in Spain, came into the race motivated and ready to go. “I chose to race the Anthem Advanced Pro 29 on...

SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 2022 Simon Yates put the finishing touch on a brilliant effort at the Paris-Nice stage race in France, scoring a stunning solo victory on the final stage into Nice. The Team BikeExchange-Jayco leader launched the decisive attack on the final stage and held off Primoz Roglic and Wout van Aert of Jumbo-Visma to take the win and secure second place overall in the eight-day WorldTour race. Yates showed top form all week long in France. The British rider finished top-five in the pivotal time trial on day four on his Giant Trinity Advanced Pro TT bike and then emerged as...

Saturday, March 12, 2022 Alison Jackson secured her first podium of the season Friday at Drentse Acht van Westerveld, sprinting to second from a reduced group. The 15th edition of Drentse Act van Westerveld covered a 134.2 km route, starting and finishing in Dwingeloo with several cobbled sectors. Throughout the race, Jackson fought to stay in the first group by staying alert when echelons formed. The peloton split before the finish, with four riders going to the line for a reduced bunch sprint. Jackson finished second aboard her Langma Advanced SL Disc. “The race was hard from the start with all the wind,” said...

Wednesday, March 9, 2022 Ayesha McGowan, the first African American female professional road racer, launches two programs aimed at uplifting elevating Black and Brown women who seek to further themselves in the sport of competitive road cycling. In its second year, Thee Abundance Mini Grant Program will provide entries, housing, transportation, a food stipend and several additional resources for awardees for four major road races - Tulsa Tough, Tour of America’s Dairyland, Intelligentsia Cup, and Gateway Cup. McGowan is also announcing Team Abundance, a Cat 3/4 composite team, born out of the 2021 awardees. Last year, the program received over 160 applications and...