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Dear friends of the continental cycling family: With this 257 edition of the Copaci Bulletin, my duties as editor of this digital publication, the website of the Pan American Cycling Confederation and, also, my responsibility as president of the COPAC Pan American Press Commission cease. In these 13 years I have had the unequivocal task of putting on your phone or computer just over 4,000 newsletters, which were designed to disseminate the most important competitions

SAN JOSE. Costa Rican cyclist Daniel Bonilla won on Wednesday the 55th edition of the Vuelta a Costa Rica, while the podium was completed by the Mexican Efrén Santos, 51 seconds away, and the Honduran Luis López, 1:49 minutes away. Bonilla was crowned champion without winning a single stage, but showing off on the mountain and in the time scale, where with his team he managed to put on the yellow shirt and withstand the

SAN JOSE. The Costa Rican Daniel Bonilla took hold on Tuesday, in the absence of just one stage, in the leadership of the Tour of Costa Rica by controlling the attacks of the Ecuadorian Bayron Guamá and the Mexican Efrén Santos, his top contenders for the title. In the stage of this 120-kilometer Tuesday between San José and Paraíso, province of Cartago (east), Bonilla remained in the group of its main contenders and practically secured

MEXICO. After a historic performance at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games, Mexican cycling will have one of its great challenges in 2020 to bring the Tokyo Olympics to competitors in the three reference modalities worldwide. Therefore, the president of the Mexican Cycling Federation (FMC), Edgardo Hernández Chagoya, has defined a strategic plan to apply to national teams, including a camp in Japan, prior to the Olympic meeting. “We have had a good year with

SAN JOSE. Costa Rican cyclist Daniel Bonilla (Scotiabank-Nestlé) retained this Monday the leader’s jersey of the Tour of Costa Rica after enduring the attack by Mexican Efrén Santos (Canel´s Specialized), who with his effort managed to ascend to the second place of the general. The winner of the 12-kilometer chronoescalada between Cot and San Juan de Chicuá, province of Cartago (center) was the local Sebastián Moya with a time of 39 minutes and 34 seconds,

SAN JUAN, ARGENTINA. Once a year the province of San Juan dresses up and becomes the host of an international party. Its streets are colored with thousands of fans. Hotels, squares and bars invite everyone to be a part. It is a dream week, which has as special guests the best cyclists in the world who will represent teams from Germany, Belgium, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Spain and France. Among those who stand out the

SAN JOSE. Russian rider Nicolai Zhurkin gives the second stage victory to the Russian National Team in the Tour of Costa Rica 2019 after winning the 7th fraction of 203 kilometers between Golfito and Pérez Zeledon ahead of the Guatemalan Julio Padilla (Deluxe Optics) and Alain Quispe (Selection of Peru). While Daniel Bonilla held with just the leadership that for a large part of the journey endangered the Dutchman Reinier Honig (Procyclingstats), however, the work

SAN JOSE. Peruvian cyclist Alaín Quispe (Sel. De Perú) won this Friday in the sixth stage of the 55th edition of the International Cycling Tour of Costa Rica, which Costa Rica’s Daniel Bonilla leads without startling. Quispe starred in a flight with four other cyclists he beat in the final sprint to give Peru the first victory of this edition of the Tour of Costa Rica, something that had not happened since 1980. The Peruvian

SAN JOSE. The Mexican cyclist Efrén Santos won the fifth stage of the Tour of Costa Rica on Thursday and is second overall behind Costa Rican Daniel Bonilla, who today rose to the top of the ranking. Santos beat Bonilla in the final sprint of today’s 142-kilometer stage between Jacó (central Pacific) and Pérez Zeledón (south), after both escaped alone during the last 20 kilometers. “It was a very nice stage. It took me a

SAN JOSE. The Dutch cyclist Reinier Honig (ProCyclingStats) has imposed himself in the second stage of the 55th of the International Cycling Tour of Costa Rica, a 126.5-kilometer day played on Tuesday between the towns of Liberia and Esparza. With a time of 3 hours, 3 minutes and 56 seconds, Honig won alone on arrival at Esparza, where he beat the Guatemalan Alex Julajuj (Deluxe Optics) in 31 seconds and the Russian Victor Manakov (Russian