Cycling News

MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2021 Stephan Davoust led a dominant showing by the Giant Factory Off-Road Team at the 2021 USA Cycling Marathon Mountain Bike Nationals, winning gold in the elite men’s race. Luke Vrouwenvelder earned silver to complete the impressive one-two finish for the squad in Frederick, Maryland. “I am absolutely beyond myself to be the 2021 marathon national champion,” Davoust said after his win. "Thanks to the team for a great season, I'm already frothing for next year." From the start, Davoust and Vrouwenvelder proved they were the riders to beat. Both chose to race their Anthem Advanced Pro 29 race...

Saturday, October 16, 2021 The Liv Racing WorldTeam competed in two French one-day races, starting Friday with La Classique Morbihan and followed by Grand Prix du Morbihan Féminin on Saturday. Sofia Bertizzolo unleashed a strong attack with one kilometer to go, securing the win by nine seconds over the peloton. The 115-kilometer route for La Classique Morbihan began in Josselin, taking racers through a hilly course before finishing on a 5-lap circuit. The athletes faced a 1.8-kilometer climb six times before the finish in Grand-Champ. With 85 kilometers to go, Liv Racing WorldTeam had Pauliena Rooijakkers in a breakaway at the front. With 25...

Thursday, October 14, 2021 Race director Marion Rousse presented the course and jerseys for the inaugural edition of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, scheduled for July 24-31, 2022, at the Palais des Congrès in Paris this morning. Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift race director Marion Rousse unveiled the eight stages that will make up the event today. The stages are centered in the East of France, crossing three regions, Île-de-France, Grand Est and Bourgogne–Franche-Comté, and 11 departments. The eight days of racing are intended to capture the essence of cycling past, present and future, from the Champs-Élysées,...

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2021 Giant Factory Off-Road Team rider Antoine Philipp wrapped up his 2021 season with a podium finish at a French Cup race in Marseille. The 24-year-old French rider finished fifth, gaining valuable UCI points and ending his season on a high note. Philipp came into the Marseille race in top form after finishing his 2021 World Cup campaign two weeks earlier in the U.S. He finished 13th at the final World Cup XC race in West Virginia, his best result in a season that saw him improving each round and steadily earning better positions on the start...

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 Liv Racing Collective athlete Serena Bishop Gordon tackled her longest race ever in both distance and duration over the weekend at The Rad in Trinidad, Colorado. She finished second among the women and eighth overall in the 165-mile gravel race. The long course, named “Stubborn Dolores”, began and ended in the southern Colorado town of Trinidad – traversing expansive mesas with the Spanish Peaks serving as a backdrop. With over 90 percent gravel roads and 11,213 feet of elevation gain, the 165-mile route was made even more difficult after days of rain leading up to the...