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MADRID. The twelve candidates for Vélo D’Or are already known, known as the prize for the best cyclist of the year. The French magazine delivers this distinction at the end of each season, and this time it will be next Tuesday, October 15, coinciding with the presentation of the Tour de France 2020 tour. The prize, which has been awarded since 1992, is similar to what happens in football with France Football magazine. The current

QUITO Ecuador was left without the XXXVI Cycling Tour because the demonstrations are maintained, which broke out following the elimination of the fuel subsidy, said Oswaldo Hidalgo, president of the Ecuadorian Cycling Federation (FEC), on Sunday. “Unfortunately the events already announced for next week (more protests), lead us to make this decision to suspend the Tour,” Hildago told Efe. The manager said that he planned to start the Vuelta with the dispute of the fourth

BOLOGNA, ITALY. Demi Vollering (Parkhotel Valkenburg) won the sixth edition of the Giro dell’Emilia Donne, beating Elisa Longo Borghini (Trek-Segafredo) and Nikola Nosková (Bigla Pro Cycling) to the line on the ascent of San Luca in Bologna. The victory is the second of the first professional season of Vollering, 22, after winning the prologue at the Elsy Jacobs Festival in May. After a race that was mostly flat, the final climb turned out to be

SAN JUAN, ARGENTINA. The San Juan cyclist Maribel Aguirre finished first in the Omnium test of the Argentine Track Championship that takes place in Mendoza and the gold medal was hung, after Friday he took possession of the silver medal in individual chase. There were 154 points that added the young native of Rawson in the various careers of the specialty that saw her be crowned as the best in the country. On the podium

CONSTANZA, REP. DOMINICAN The Caribbean MTB Mountain Cycling Championship 2019 is celebrated in the Constanza Hills ecotourism project of this city with the participation of 60 athletes from Aruba, Trinidad and Tobago, Curacao, Bermuda and the Dominican Republic. Danilo Mirabal, president of the Dominican Mountain Biking Commission, said that “this competition is an opportunity for the Dominican Republic to grow in the mountain biking modality and also reaffirms Constanza as the Caribbean capital of Mountain

The Pan American Cycling Confederation (COPACI) together with the International Cycling Union (UCI), considering that the BMX Racing C1 South American Cup scoring for the classification of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and missing a few days for its realization in the city of Santiago de Chile have agreed as follows: - That the 2 C1 events take place in the city of Santiago de Chile on the scheduled date, October 12 and 13, 2019

The National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation of the Republic of Cuba and the University of Science of Physical Culture and Sport, convene the VIII INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND SPORT (AFIDE) to be held in Havana from 11 to 15 November 2019 at the International Conference Center. The Convention will focus on “Sustainable Sport for All”. Carve IV International Physical and Sports Education for All: sustainability agenda against 2030.VI International Workshop

LONDRINA, BRAZIL. The Brazilian Cycling Confederation (CBC) reports that during the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, the athlete Kacio Freitas, of the track selection, underwent an anti-doping test and after returning to Brazil received a notification indicating an adverse analytical result in the Sample A. Immediately, the athlete requested the opening of sample B, which days later also proved positive. Recently the Pan American Sports Organization published the report of all cases of positive

BOGOTÁ. In Santiago del Estero, Argentina, the tenth and final round of the BMX World Cup was held this Sunday, which was attended by Colombian athletes. Mariana Pajón, was competing in the elite ladies category, and advanced to the semifinal of the contest, as a fall prevented the two-time Olympic champion from fighting for the final quota. However, it was known that the Antioqueña fortunately does not present serious injuries, according to her brother through

YORKSHIRE, GREAT BRITAIN. Danish cyclist Mads Pedersen gave the surprise by proclaiming himself World Champion in the test that closed the World Road Cycling World Championships in Yorkshire (United Kingdom) on Sunday, a 261-kilometer race in which the title defender retired before the end, the Spanish Alejandro Valverde. Pedersen, 23, unexpectedly won the Italian Matteo Trentin, favorite and who launched the final sprint of a trio headboard in which the Swiss Stefan Kung, one of