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HAVANA. The Pan American Cycling Confederation (COPACI), regrets the death of Mr. Oscar Pereyra, treasurer of the Argentine Federation of Track and Road (FACPyR). The president of COPACI, José Manuel Peláez, sent his condolences to family, friends and colleagues from Pereyra. “We always remember Pereyra as the man who never gave up his intentions and dreams, the cheerful and enterprising man, the good friend and companion,” Peláez says in his message. “In this moment of

HAVANA. The President of the Pan-American Cycling Confederation (COPACI), José Manuel Peláez, expressed his dismay at the death of the president of the Pan-American Baseball Confederation (COPABI), the Dominican Héctor Tito Pereyra. “We are very sorry for the death of our friend Tito Pereyra, a man who devoted a great part of his life to sports, particularly baseball.” In his capacity as president of the Dominican federation and COPABI, Pereyra put all his efforts into

SAO PAULO. El Campeonato Panamericano y las rondas 3 y 4 de La Copa Latinoamericana de BMX transcurren este fin de semana aquí, con la presencia de unos 800 bikers de 11 países, entre los que sobresale Brasil con la delegación más numerosa. En el certamen están presentes los presidentes de las federaciones de Brasil, Chile y Ecuador, al tiempo que también participa el presidente de la Comisión Panamericana de BMX, Gerardo Díaz, mientras que

LAS VEGAS. USA. Following the recommendation of the UCI Cyclo-cross Commission, the 2019 Pan-American Cyclo-cross Championships will offer a Women Junior Championship.  This will allow nations to prepare and field Women Junior teams in advance of the first World Championships for the category in Dubendorf Switzerland in January 2020. The announcement was shared by Brook Watts, President of the Pan-American Cycling Confederations (COPACI) cyclo-cross commission, “I anticipate great interest among the Pan-Am national federations in

GUATEMALA. Trasciende la histórica noticia a través del Diario de Centroamérica, Vuelta Ciclista a Guatemala fue declarada Patrimonio Cultural Intangible de la Nación, a través del acuerdo ministerial, Numeral 373-2019 del Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, ya que por más de 50 años se ha convertido en una fiesta de esplendor y color. El Comité Ejecutivo de Federación Guatemalteca de Ciclismo, encabezada por Stuard Rodríguez, agradece al Licenciado, Elder Súchite Vargas, Ministro de Cultura y

BUENOS AIRES. From July 26 to August 11, the Pan-American Games will be held in Lima and track, mountain, road and BMX cycling will be one of the disciplines that can be observed by TyC Sports and TyC Sports Play. Where and when? The first to be disputed will be mountain bike, on Sunday July 28 and at the Morro Solar. Then the track will be held in ViDeNa, from Thursday 1 to Sunday 4

BOGOTÁ. The Carrera Colombia Oro y Paz 2.1, which ran from February 6 to 11 last year, was selected as the best event of 2018, in the award ceremony of the Colombian Association of Sports Journalists Acord, section Valle del Cauca, in solemn ceremony held on the night of Tuesday, May 21 at the José Fernando Arroyo Valencia Auditorium, of the National School of Sports University Institution. The award was received by Mr. Hernando Zuluaga

HAVANA. The president of the Pan-American Cycling Confederation (COPACI), José Manuel Peláez Rodríguez, made public the condolences of the entity for the death of Dominican entrepreneur Heriberto Medrano, which caused a stir in that sister country. Medrano, who died after rushing the helicopter in which he was traveling with another person in the province of Puerto Plata, served as president of Grupo Medrano, a communications company of more than 20 radio stations in FM and

MADRID. It was 20 years ago that an American did not win a World Cup event and Courtney, the great revelation, appeared to break the statistic. For its part, the Spanish Rocio de Alba Garcia made a 13th place more than meritorious considering that it was his debut in the elite, in a World Cup. After the race, Courtney said that the victory achieved means a lot to her. She claimed that last year’s world

BOGOTÁ. The Colombian Cycling Federation deeply regrets the announcement of the UCI, according to which two new cases of doping have been detected involving the athletes Alex Norberto Cano, of the continental team Coldeportes Zenú, for anomalies in their biological passport, and Juan José Amador Castaño, belonging to Team Manzana Postobon, notified with the substance Boldenona. According to Article 7.12.1 of the Anti-Doping Regulations, the positive of two athletes (the previous Wilmar Andrés Paredes Zapata)