The Tokyo Olympic champion, the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost), fought until the last meters of the second stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné held this Monday, in which he was only surpassed by the Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe at the finish line in La Chaise -Dieu. The group of favorites arrived compactly on the last ascent, Sean Quinn (EF) jumped out of the group and opened space for Carapaz, who with 200 meters to go
The BMX freestyle Olympic runner-up in Tokyo 2020, the Venezuelan Daniel Dhers, will honor the next edition of the Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile, where he is classified together with his partner Katherine Díaz, as confirmed by the Venezuelan Olympic Committee (COV) this Monday, the 5th of June. For the appointment from October 20 to November 5, both riders secured their places after finishing in fourth and fifth place, respectively, in the American
On a day marked by rain, Christophe Laporte (Jumbo-Vima) emerged victorious in the initial stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2023, in an undulating section of 158 kilometers that started and finished in Chambon-sur-Lac, where the best rider in America was Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz in 14th place. The French sprinter was the fastest in the sprint after catching the Belgian Rune Herregodts (Intermarché – Circus – Wanty) over the finish line, who almost caused a
With notable prominence of the runners of Colombia Pacto Por El Deporte-GW Shimano ended this Sunday the women’s Tour of Andalusia 2023, won by the Norwegian Katrine Aalerud, while the Colombian Jessenia Meneses concluded with the mountain title. “The truth is that she has been a very fought shirt. A very hard mountain pass with a fairly strong pace, but well we were able to pass ahead and we took this shirt, very happy. I
3 June, 2023
Why is World Bicycle Day celebrated on June 3?
World Bicycle Day is celebrated every June 3, in order to make visible the importance of an ecological and healthy means of transport. In fact, its use helps to mitigate the crisis in the world today, due to pollution and climate change that the Planet is experiencing. Under this premise, the United Nations (UN) declared June 3 as World Bicycle Day, because “it constitutes a sustainable, simple, affordable, reliable, clean and ecological means of transport
The second place of the Colombian Diego Arboleda and the bronze of the American Alise Willoughby were the best results in America at the beginning of the rounds of the UCI BMX World Cup that was held in the Turkish city of Sakarya, where bicyclists of more than 30 nations. The Colombian BMX team had an excellent start when Diego Arboleda excelled in Turkish territory and took silver in the elite category of the men’s
Boyacá cyclist Rafael Pineda (Colombia Pacto Por El Deporte-GW Shimano) became champion in the 44th edition of the Tour of Cundinamarca after maintaining the lead in the fourth and final stage, a 96-kilometre day played this Saturday through the streets of Soacha . Pineda, who took the lead after winning the Alto de Romeral, overcame the last day without complications to finish on the top of the podium in the Cundinamarque round. The places of
Next Saturday June 3, World Bicycle Day is celebrated and to celebrate it in the way we like best, Strava, the popular cycling social network, together with the UCI have launched a challenge encouraging all participants to use the bike on all the short journeys for which we often use the car. The challenge created in Strava and in which you can register simply by accessing the challenges section from your profile will take place
The EF Education-EasyPost cyclist, Richard Carapaz, has a new challenge before the Tour de France, it is the Critérium du Dauphiné, which also takes place in the French country next Sunday, where the Ecuadorian will seek his second victory in the old continent this season. The Olympic champion of the route in Tokyo 2020 took first place in the Mercan Tour Classic Alpes-Maritimes, which took place in France and had a distance of 169.2 kilometers.
The double Olympic champion and multi-monarch world champion, Mariana Pajón, leads the embassy of Colombia and America at the opening this weekend of the 2023 season of the UCI BMX Racing World Cups, in Sakarya, Turkey. The Colombian national coach Fabio Peña summoned five athletes to face this start in the elite category, led by Mariana Pajón and Gabriela Bolle, in the women’s branch, and Carlos Ramírez, Diego Arboleda and Juan Carlos Diaz, in the