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The cyclist Jaime Alberto Restrepo, who was the Pan-American junior team pursuit champion in 2013 in Mexico, was killed by gunmen who shot him when he was on a street in the Colombian town of Ciudad Bolívar, in the department of Antioquia. The Antioquia authorities are trying to establish the reasons surrounding the death of this well-known Antioquia cyclist, who was the Pan-American youth champion in the team pursuit in 2013 in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Then,

Ecuadorian cyclist Richard Carapaz promised this Monday, on the third and last day of rest, to do his best to finish as leader of the Giro d’Italia, a position he currently occupies after having already disputed 15 stages. I am calm, and with the team I am prepared for what is to come, said Carapaz, who acknowledged that the Bora formation controlled the most recent stages at a collective level, but recalled that now there

Great weekend lived the cyclist from San Juan Maribel Aguirre. In her third competition wearing the colors of Zaaf Cycling, she finished on the podium, with a well-deserved third place for the current Argentine road champion. The competition was held on Saturday, in the Greater Bilbao area, purely Basque lands. Within the framework of a cycling calendar, made up of several dates, the last weekend was called “Emakumeen Klasikoa”. From 4:00 p.m. (in Argentina), around

Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz successfully began the tough defense of first place in the Giro d’Italia, this May 22, 2022, when stage 15 of the competition was completed. The cyclist arrived in the main group, while the Italian Giulio Giccone arrived in the first place. It was a bumpy start. The Ecuadorian was involved in a massive fall, when he was crossing kilometer five of the competition; after the incident, he got up, got on his

The Colombians were protagonists in the fourth and final stage of the Joe Martin Stage Race, both male and female, as Bryan Gómez (Best Buddies Racing) won the final stage, while Sergio Luis Henao (Team Emanuel Ibarry & 2ndBike) was fourth in the final general and, Diana Peñuela finished fifth in the race classification. In an exciting photo-finish finish, Brayan Gómez took the victory in the last stage, which was played over 60 kilometers in

The German team Bora-Hansgrohe and the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers) put an end to the resistance of the Spanish Juan Pedro López (Trek-Segafredo) in the fourteenth stage of the 105 Giro d’Italia, whose pink jersey is now worn by the South American cyclist, third in the goal of Turin, where the British Simon Yates (BikeExchange) prevailed. The classic profile that the stage had served him to beat another classic, Yates, who added his twenty-eighth

Dominant in the sprint events at the 2021 Tissot UCI Track Nations Cup, Kevin Quintero returned to the top step of the keirin podium in the second round of the 2022 series last weekend in Milton (Canada). Quintero is truly on a roll. One that started in December 2019, when the Colombian sprinter took gold in Brisbane (Australia) at the fifth round of the 2019-2020 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, and that sees him dominate

The French Arnaud Démare won the thirteenth stage of the Giro d’Italia that took place between San Remo and Cuneo, on a 150 km route, on May 20, 2022, a day in which the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz remained strong in the peloton, with the second place in the individual general, facing the tough stages to come. The South American entered this date in the 15th position of the sentencing line and in this way he

Stefano Oldani achieved an unprecedented victory in stage 12 of the Giro d’Italia, after winning a reduced sprint as part of a large breakaway, while the Spanish Juan Pedro López kept the pink jersey for one more day, escorted in the general table by the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz. The stage was defined in a dramatic rally between three riders who came out of the breakaway of the day and faced the last kilometers with differences

Although Milton will continue to be the benchmark for Canadian track cycling, at least internationally – it will host a Nations Cup heat again in 2023 and has an option in 2024 – in a few months the Mattamy National Center will no longer be the Canada’s only indoor velodrome. The construction of the Sylvan Adams Velodrome – Desjardins Sports Center is progressing as planned and, as can be seen in the image, the facility