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The programming of all the continental championships that the Pan American Cycling Confederation (COPACI) will organize was announced in the first days of the year, with the uniqueness that on this occasion it involves five nations: United States, Colombia, Brazil, El Salvador and Chile. The first competition will be the Pan American track event (April 3 to 7), in Carson, a district of the city of Los Angeles, in the United States, where the velodrome

Cycling, beyond what happens on the asphalt, has become a technological race in recent times. From disc brakes to bicycles manufactured by 3D printers that break the hour record, through tubeless, tires that can reduce or increase their own pressure on the fly, telescopic seat posts… that is, endless advances that in the professional elite they are already the order of the day. However, there are still things that remain to be seen… Just when

The Tour Colombia will return in the 2024 season, after three years of absence from the cycling calendar. With the work of the Colombian Cycling Federation and the Ministry of Sports, a couple of weeks ago it was announced that the country’s most important cycling competition would return. Although the route of the race, which will run from February 6 to 11, is already official, there would be some problems in running it normally. This

The Tour of Táchira en Bicicleta 2024, an event that will be held between January 14 and 21 and opens the calendar of road races on our continent, will be directed by Brazilian commissioner Ladewig Iverson, appointed by the International Cycling Union ( UCI) for this new endeavor. José Gregorio Freites, president of the Tachirense Sports Institute and member of the organizing committee of the “Greatest of America”, expressed that good things are repeated, which

The Executive Committee of Panam Sports decided this January 3 to withdraw the venue of the 2027 Pan American Games from Barranquilla, Colombia. In a statement, the continental body indicated that the decision is due to breach of contract by the Colombian city. “The resolution has been taken after the countless breaches of the current contract,” Panam Sports reported in a statement without giving further details. “Panam Sports deeply regrets this situation, but the decision

Red Bull, the energy drink company, fully enters the world of cycling with the acquisition of 51% of the BORA-hansgrohe team structure. This operation has been confirmed by the Austrian competition authority and points to large sports sponsorship, such as Formula 1 or football. This Thursday, January 3, the website of the Austrian competition authority published a statement announcing Red Bull’s majority acquisition of 51% of ‘RD pro Cycling GmbH, the owner of the professional

The organization of the fourth edition of the Tour Colombia 2.1 continues to finalize the details for the return of the most important race in America to the international calendar of the International Cycling Union (UCI) for the 2024 season, which will take place from 6 to 11 February, and in which the participation of 156 cyclists representing 26 teams is expected. The international group that will travel the roads of Boyacá and Cundinamarca will

The sports director of Alpecin-Deceuninck, Christoph Roodhooft, told the secrets of the preseason of the Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel, which, for the moment, represents full of victories, all of them overwhelming, in the cyclocross races that he has held and that aim to a memorable mud campaign. The lack of pressure and the last few months facing his preseason on the roads of Alicante have meant that Mathieu van der Poel is in the

The Ibero-American Community Trophy, awarded each year by the Higher Sports Council of Spain, fell this time to the Pan-American Cycling Confederation (COPACI), which was celebrating its centenary in 2022, as stated in the jury’s minutes. to be announced this December 27. As recognized by the jury, COPACI stood out in the section of best Ibero-American athlete, entity, club or institution in 2022 for its activities carried out as part of its 100 years of