The Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz, recent winner of the Tour of Switzerland and the British Geraint Thomas, lead the Ineos team for the Tour de France that will begin on June 26 in Brest, a formation in which the Spanish Jonathan Castroviejo has been included. A formation with a new philosophy, “more open and aggressive”, ready to “Expect the unexpected”, according to Dave Brailsford, director of the British squad. The team confirmed well in advance of
18 June, 2021
Ecuador named its 2021 road champions
Miryam Núñez with a double in time trial and road became the great figure of the Ecuadorian national road championship, held Thursday and Friday, where Leslye Ojeda, Jorge Luis Montenegro, Sebastián Novoa and Alexander Cepeda were also winners. Núñez, a cyclist for Movistar Team Ecuador, was a huge favorite and managed to revalidate his crown in the test against the clock on Thursday, June 17, after registering a time of 28 minutes and six seconds
With 17 confirmed nations, everything is ready in Lima, Peru, for the Pan American Track Cycling Championship (June 23 to 29), which will have the additional attraction of distributing the first tickets to the I Pan American Youth Games, in Cali, in coming December. Until this Thursday, delegations from Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Cuba, Ecuador, Venezuela, Uruguay, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Barbados, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Suriname and of course, had
Our continent became the one that will have the most representative in the Olympic debut of BMX Freestyle, by adding seven names among the 18 classified for Tokyo 2020, a list that the International Cycling Union (UCI) officially released on June 17. The United States is the only country that won two quotas for each sex and is a strong contender for the first titles under the five rings in this attractive modality of cycling,
16 June, 2021
Egan Bernal was received by Pope Francis
Egan Bernal was received today by Pope Francis after Wednesday’s General Audience held in the Patio de San Dámaso. The Colombian champion gave him as a gift a racing bicycle with the colors of the Argentine flag and his champion jersey. Francisco, with his humor, joked with the 2021 Tour of Italy champion: “Egan, how many reds (coffees) do you drink before a race?” The cyclist dreamed of visiting Pope Francis; the idol of him
The Mexican cycling team that will compete in the Tokyo Olympic Games was made up of seven riders, two on the road, two on the mountain and three on the track, as announced by the National Olympic Committee. The athletes who will be on the road will be Yareli Salazar and Eder Frayre, in the mountains they will be Daniela Campuzano, who will be in her second Olympic fair, after Rio de Janeiro 2016 and
“We just want to win the Tour de France and we go there with a strong team.” These are the words of Richard Carapaz at the end of the Tour of Switzerland, where he conquered one of the key high mountain days, in Leukerbad, which later gave him the triumph in the individual general classification, with just 17 seconds of difference over the Colombian Rigoberto Uran. Those two victories (partial and general) make the Ecuadorian
The Mountain Bike World Cup was held this weekend in the Austrian city of Loegang and our continent said goodbye with a gold and a silver, through the American Riley Amos and the Chilean Martin Vidaurre, respectively. Press reports from headquarters reflect that nighttime rain on Saturday and Sunday gave way to scorching sun and strong wind, turning the Cross-Country Olympic (XCO) track into a wild mix of tech roots, sections fast speed, difficult climbs
13 June, 2021
Eder Frayre goes to Tokyo to compete on the road
The road cycling selective organized by the Mexican Cycling Federation in Aguacalientes was won with great superiority by the young 29-year-old Eder Frayre, who proved to be eager to compete in the Tokyo Olympic Games. Eder started a getaway from the first climb and rolled alone for approximately 100 kilometers. Frayre was caught by a small group with 40 kilometers to go and from there he started another race tactic. The Californian rolled comfortably for
The Ecuadorian cyclist Richard Carapaz was crowned champion of the Tour de Suisse, this Sunday, June 13, 2021 and in this way strengthened his excellent sports and physical form for his participation in the Tour de France (June 26 to July 18). The well-known Carchi Locomotive arrived on this last day dressed in yellow and bravely defended his leadership. He added another historic triumph, this time in the 84th edition of the Tour de Suisse,