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MEXICO. The cyclists Ignacio Prado and Yareli Salazar were among the top five in the omnium and scratch, within the third stage of the Track Cycling World Cup, in Hong Kong. Prado finished in fourth place with 118 points after a sum of 38 in scratch, 38 in tempo, 16 in elimination and 26 in points. The first box was for New Zealand’s Campebll Stewart with 142, followed by German Roger Kluge with 133 and

HONG KONG, CHINA. Germany and the Netherlands took off with gold medals on the third date of the Cycling World Cup that takes place in the Chinese city of Hong Kong, which distributes points for the World Championship in Berlin. The men’s and women’s teams in Germany took gold metals in the team chase and speed tests together, respectively; while Holland, current monarchs of the world, won gold in manly speed. While the locals Sarah

HAVANA. From the Cuban capital, the Magnanement Committee of the Pan American Cycling Confederation (COPACI) deeply regrets the physical departure of the Colombian UCI International Commissioner, Juan Eugenio Cano Arcila, who died a few hours ago in his native Medellín, at 60 years of age. The president of COPACI, José Manuel Peláez Rodríguez, upon hearing the sad news, expressed his deepest condolences to the relatives of Cano Arcila, his friends and the Colombian Cycling Federation.

CHIRIQUÍ, PANAMA. Archibold’s triumph returned the award to Panama, which had not won this trophy since 2017, when it was Carlos Samudio’s turn. In this edition, Samudio (Team Rali Claro) took second place in the global standings, followed by Jorge Castelblanco, teammate that Archibold. Peruvian cyclist Alain Quispe, meanwhile, won the last stage of the XXXIX Vuelta a Chiriquí 2019, in a package that crowned Franklin Archibold as general champion. (laestrella.com.pa)

SAN LUIS, ARGENTINA. Alberto Rodríguez Saá announced this midday the realization of the “Vuelta del Porvenir San Luis Internacional” to be held from February 26 to March 1, 2020 in San Luis. “We restart a path that we recognize that we are doing well and that we would like to do better because its benefits and benefits are already demonstrated,” said the president, after informing that the reason for the suspension of these events in

CHIRIQUÍ. The queen stage of the Vuelta Chiriquí had a lot of spectacle for the spectators, where there was a hard mountain and where the leader Archibold showed that the strongest cyclist of the Vuelta, winning stage and leaving his title ready for lack of a day for the closing, by Daniel Bonilla and Anthony Sánchez were the best Ticos. In total, the stage had 133 kilometers with two steering wheels and four demanding and

CHIQUIRÍ. La Vuelta Chiriquí lived on Tuesday the sixth stage, with an individual chrono where the tico Daniel Bonilla could not hold the shirt and it was again the Panamanian Franklin Archibold who, after winning the chrono, dressed in yellow and took important time for the stage of this Wednesday. In total they were 19.2 kilometers with departure and arrival in Chiriquí, where each runner left one minute apart, while the last ten of the

HAVANA. With the confirmation this week of the Olympic quota for Arlenis Sierra in road cycling, Cuba raised to 26 names with tickets to the maximum four-year appointment in Tokyo in 2020, in which he hopes to finish among the first 20 nations in the medal table , as confirmed by José Antonio Miranda, high performance director of INDER. The Cuban rider secured her second inclusion in five-year appointments after finishing a dream season in

CHIRIQUÍ. The national cyclist Alonso Gamero shone again in the Tour of Chiriquí, which is taking place in Panama. Last Friday, the Peruvian won the second stage of this competition and three days later, with a time of 4h1m37s, he returned to climb to the top of the podium in the fifth stage, which was called ‘David-Los Anastacios-Circunvalación -San Andrés-Circunvalación-David. “All stages have their degree of difficulty. Today it was thought to be flat, but

QUITO. The Ecuadorian Jorge Montenegro was awarded on Saturday 23 the XXXVI edition of the Tour of Ecuador and his compatriot Richard Huera won the last leg. Montenegro dominated the race from the second stage and Huera won two fractions. The second place in the general classification went to the local Segundo Navarrete and the third was held by Rubén Urbano, born in Colombia, but who ran the Tour of the Ecuadorian Saitel team. For