The fifth edition of the International Women’s Tour of Uruguay, which ended on January 23, had as its main news the victory of the Argentine Dolores Rodríguez Rey, of the Ciudad del Plata cycling club. The competition began in Cardona, on Thursday, January 20, with a 1,300-meter time trial that was won by Mariana García Britos, a Uruguayan from Ciudad del Plata. The next day the peloton pedaled in a stage of 81 kilometers along
24 January, 2022
Egan Bernal suffers an accident and is operated urgently
Egan Bernal has suffered an accident while training with his team on the roads of Cundinamarca in Colombia, and has had to undergo emergency surgery. As reported by the local Traffic Police, an Ineos cyclist collided with a bus that was parked while practicing with the time trial bike in the municipality of Gachancipá. As reported by RCN-Caracol, the cyclist suffered a broken patella and femur, in addition to a pneumothorax as a result of
Playa Ancón.- The local Yoandry Freire and the Havanan Ludisneli Fleitas became the champions of the First Escambray Mountain Bike Challenger concluded this Sunday in this resort in the south of Sancti Spíritus, central province of Cuba. The third and last stage, 30 kilometers long, was pedaled from the Manacal campsite located at the foot of the mythical Topes de Collantes massif. Freire honored his group Los Manigüeros, the main organizer of the competition, by
23 January, 2022
Roniel Campos, three-time champion of the Tour of Táchira
The Venezuelan cyclist Roniel Campos became three-time champion of the Tour of Táchira, the queen event of cycling in Venezuela, which had the Colombian Didier Merchán as the winner of the last stage, disputed on a circuit of 116, 4 kilometers in the city of San Cristobal. Campos, 28, is the fifth rider with three titles in this tour (2020, 2021 and 2022). Born in Nirgua, a population of 35,000 inhabitants in the Yaracuy state
The increase in covid-19 cases in the country and the projections that experts and the Ministry of Health have presented regarding the pandemic wave have forced the Costa Rican Cycling Federation (FECOCI) to move the Vuelta a Costa Rica agreed for the month of March to December 2022. The decision is made known from this moment to avoid any type of inconvenience later, even at times when some international team tickets, accommodations and details that
The local Roniel Campos consolidated this Saturday his advantage as leader of the Tour of Táchira 2022 and caresses his third championship in the largest cycling event in Venezuela, by escorting the winner of the penultimate stage, José Alarcón, another rider of the house. With a time of 3 hours, 10 minutes and 33 seconds, Alarcón, a member of the Gran Misión Transporte team, won the seventh section, a 117-kilometer route between Ureña and Cerro
21 January, 2022
Freire wins first in Mountain Bike Challenger Escambray
Sancti Spíritus.- The local Yoandry Freire, from the Los Manigüeros team, won this Friday the first stage of the Escambray Mountain Bike Challenger, run in a 30.9-kilometer stretch through hills and rivers between the Planta Cantú and La Hormiga campsites, the latter in the municipality of Fomento. Freire set a time of one hour, 12 minutes and 48 seconds, and entered the finish line ahead of Ecuadorian Jorge Brito, also in the elite category, who
A great battle between the climbers was experienced in the sixth stage of the Tour of Táchira, where the Venezuelan Roniel Campos gave a blow of authority in the Casa del Padre, staying with the victory alone after traveling 114.1 kilometers. In second place came the Colombian Jahir Pérez (Team Saavedra), third Didier Merchán (Drone Hopper Andrioni) and fourth Marco Tulio Suesca (Orgullo Paisa). Juan Alcides Espinel from Cucuta gave up the lead, which passed
20 January, 2022
Egan Bernal and Tadej Pogacar will meet in the Emirates Tour
One of the most anticipated duels (with good physical conditions) in the 2022 cycling season is Egan Bernal vs Tadej Pogacar, both with two great laps in their record and with youth as the main letter of introduction added to Primoz Roglic in third instance as an older and more established cyclist. The fact is that the Italian newspaper ‘La Gazzetta dello Sport’ has leaked what many fans expected. The first duel of 2022 between
20 January, 2022
Eduin Becerra surprised and won in the Táchira mountain
He came up the unforgiving mountain and with surprises. The local Eduin Becerra (Ángels Hernández Foundation) won the Tour of Táchira fifth, on a 101.4-kilometer route starting in La Tendida and arriving in La Grita, while Juan Alcides Espinel (JB-Calzado Power-Arroz Zulia ) kept the leader jersey in the Andean tour. Behind Becerra came last year’s champion Roniel Campos (Deportivo Táchira-JHS) while the third seat of the day went to the runner-up of the Tour