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The international cycling season will begin in the last days of January and the main figures are preparing to achieve their goals with the three Grand Tours in sight. Despite the fact that the Giro d’Italia, the first major of the year, will start on May 6 and before that there is another series of races that could cause crashes, injuries or changes to the calendars, the teams outline their leaders for the Giro, Tour

With the presence of 36 Colombian riders, the 57th edition of the Tour of Táchira will take place. Pending official confirmation by the organization, the Colombian representation will be the third largest in the last five years. The largest presence of ‘beetles’ in the last ten years was in 2019 with 42 runners. The Colombian advanced team of the Pro Teams is led by Drone Hopper-Androni, which will include Didier Merchán, Juan Diego Alba and

Colombian Nairo Quintana (Arkea Samsic), winner of the 2014 Giro d’Italia and the 2016 Vuelta, will start the 2022 season at the Tour de Provence, proof that he won in 2020, and confirmed his presence at the Volta a Catalunya. According to Yvon Ledanois, director of the French team, Quintana “will start the 2022 season with a classic program that was a complete success for him two seasons ago when he joined the Arkea Samsic

The queen event of cycling in Venezuela, the Tour of Táchira, begins this Sunday, January 16 with the local Roniel Campos in search of the triple championship, while the participation of eleven foreign teams was confirmed, in what opens the International Cycling Union season in America. “We hope that this 2022 will be repeated and I trust that it will be like that,” Campos, 28, a member of the Deportivo Táchira team, told the press.

With an invitation to participate in the centennial celebration of the Pan American Cycling Confederation (COPACI), the head of this entity, José Manuel Peláez, congratulated Colombian cyclist Egan Bernal, who turned 25 on January 13 and is today considered the best road cyclist on our continent and one of the highest in the world. In his message on the official page, Peláez recalls the times that he has been able to greet him and recalls

More than 60 contestants will animate the First Escambray Mountain Bike Challenger scheduled for the 21st to the 23rd of this month. The event includes a journey through that impressive mountain range with a paradisiacal final destination in Playa Ancón, in the province of Sancti Spíritus. The Manigüeros group is its creator with the support of the sports management of that territory and its cycling commission together with the companies of Campismo Popular and Gaviota

The plans of the Puerto Rico Cycling Federation (Fecipur) to rescue the BMX racing modality will take time and effort. For now, the most important step is to build a track. The federative body –which is chaired by Roberto Collazo– is in talks for the construction of this type of facility on the Island, complying with the competition requirements of the International Cycling Union (UCI). San Juan and Bayamón are some of the possible venues

The Guatemalan cyclist, pride of the Chuachalí village, Tecpán Guatemala, Chimaltenango, Sergio Chumil, will no longer run with the Hoomu Seguros team in Spain, but will do so with the Spanish Cortizo, which ratified his link on his social networks on Tuesday. Chumil, who runs for the Guatemalan Army in Guatemala and is selected for the U-23 national team, will participate in the Spanish Cup with the Aluminum Cortizo team. There will be 11 dates

The 57th edition of the Vuelta al Táchira by Bicycle, the most important pedal competition in the country, was officially presented in society this Tuesday, January 11, at the emblematic San Cristóbal hotel, where the organizers and main players of the sport met cranks and pedals. The sport gala served to reunite civil and military authorities, members of the Tachirense Cycling Association (ATC), former champions of the Andean tour and representatives of the media. The

Cuban Marlies Mejías announced that she will race in the Escambray Mountain Bike Challenger scheduled for 21-23 this month in the imposing scenery of those mountainous areas of the Sancti Spíritus province. “I am flattered by the invitation of the Los Manigüeros group and although I am not in my best sports form, I want to support the beautiful idea and the effort they are making to promote this modality in my country”, said the