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The Tachirense Cycling Association made official the route of the 55th edition of the Vuelta al Táchira by Bicycle 2020, which will be held from January 12 to 19. The Andean turn will have eight stages and will pass through 22 of the 29 municipalities of Táchira. “The route of the 55th Tour of Táchira by Bicycle, has been carefully structured, respecting the requirements of the UCI, adapting it to our competition, where the mountain

After a long and thorough process analyzing the doping cases discovered at Lima 2019, the Panam Sports Executive Committee approved the decisions and disqualifications proposed by the Disciplinary Commission, leading to a series of changes in the Medal Table of the Games held in July and August. These decisions were taken at the recent Executive Committee meeting in Fort Lauderdale, United States.  “We have been very careful with the issue of doping at the Pan

The Tour  San Juan 2020 will be played from January 26 to February 2 of next year with 24 teams in line with six World Tour. San Juan will be the first UCI Pro Series competition in cycling history. It is the new category that generated the International Cycling Union with the aim of strengthening the position of cycling among the largest professional sports in the World. By calendar, Argentina will have the honor of

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