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Cycling Canada has announced it will host a Canadian Esports Championships for the first time on March 12 and 13. It follows the organisation delivering a series of virtual events in 2021 and 2022. The event is set to take place on the RGT virtual cycling platform. Cycling Canada will hold the Championships in collaboration with Echelon Racing Promotions, with fitness technology company Wahoo serving as the presenting partner. Titles will be awarded in 14

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has confirmed COVID-19 protocols for the 2022 road season, with the governing body stressing national laws will take precedence at events. The protocols are broadly similar to the 2021 protocols, the UCI said, with cycling poised for its third consecutive pandemic impacted season. Entry into team bubbles for one-day and races with less than seven stages will require people to be fully vaccinated or produce a negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

Colombian cyclist Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadier) successfully passed the spine operation to which he underwent after crashing into a bus on a highway near Bogotá, and will begin his rehabilitation immediately, medical sources reported Tuesday. The reigning Giro d’Italia champion and 2019 Tour de France winner has undergone several surgeries since yesterday, following the serious accident that has shocked the country and the cycling world. The Clinic of the University of La Sabana, where the

The 2022 Pan American Cyclocross Championship will be held in Costa Rica on November 4 and 5 after several months of negotiations with the Pan American Cycling Confederation (COPACI). “It is very gratifying and satisfying, it is a country where there is no culture of this modality, therefore we have to develop it, but having been supported by COPACI and endorsed by the International Cycling Union (UCI) to be the hosts makes us enormously proud

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

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

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