Arkea Samsic revealed on Monday its roster of eight riders for the 2021 Tour de France dispute with Nairo Quintana, as the main card for the dispute over privileged positions, who in turn will be the only Colombian rider in the French currency for the ‘ Grande Boucle ‘. This will be Quintana’s eighth participation in the French round and the second with Arkea Samsic, the squad with which he was 17th overall the previous
21 June, 2021
Central America and its time trial champions: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Guatemala and Honduras
For a few days, especially this weekend, several Central American nations have contested the national road championships, especially the time trials. Here we leave you with a summary of the chrono champions in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. On Nicaraguan soil, in the elite men’s category (over 18.6 kilometers and with 28 registered riders) the winner was Larry Reyn Valle from the EDA team with a time of 28:52 minutes, followed by José Joel
Riding, competing and interacting with cyclists from around the world, including some of the biggest names in the sport, has been one of the attractions of the innovative new Olympic Virtual Series, launched by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Cycling enthusiasts around the world have been able to participate in a wide variety of cycling e-sports events running from June 4 to 27 on the renowned global racing and training platform Zwift, in collaboration with
A group of 18 riders make up the Mexican team that will compete in the Pan American Track Cycling Championship to be held in Lima, Peru, from June 23 to 29, a qualifying event for the Junior Pan American Games in Cali 2021. In the women’s branch, Victoria Velasco and Yuli Verdugo, qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games, will take part, as well as Yareli Acevedo, Sofía Arreola, Romina Hinojosa, Jessica Bonilla, Sofía Martínez and
19 June, 2021
Colombia: national road championship days
Like a true cycling festival, the national road championship of Colombia can be valued, which since last Thursday has been held with great success and which will close this Sunday with the men’s road event, elite category. Juan Esteban Guerrero, king of the fund in the Under 23 category Juan Esteban Guerrero (Colnago-CM) from Cundinamarqués won this Saturday with the victory in the long distance test of the sub 23 category on the penultimate day
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