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BMC looking for ProTour wild card status

U.S. based Pro Continental team BMC is hoping to get wild card status again this year so it can earn invitations to ProTour events. Team director Gavin Chilcott left the team's training camp last week to fly to Swizerland to appear before the UCI License Commission. In a team statement. Chilcott said the team has applied for wild card status, which among other things, requires that the team participate in the UCI's Biological Passport anti-doping program. The team attained wild card status in 2008.

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Germany’s Philipp Walsleben solos in to the U23 win

Ask Germany’s Philipp Walsleben which cyclocross races he hasn’t won as an Under-23 this season and takes him a bit to answer. “I think it’s three this season,” he answers with some hesitation, “but that’s as an U23 rider. I still have long way to go as an elite.”

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Michigan’s Tour de Leelanau canceled, other Michigan races imperiled by sponsor pullout.

"Current economic realities" have caused Michigan-based health insurance company Priority Health to pull its sponsorship of three major midwestern races, and at least one of the events has canceled its 2009 edition. Tour de Leelanau race director Steven Brown informed the Union Cyclist Internationale (UCI) on Friday that it was canceling the UCI category 1.2 event, which had been scheduled for May 24.

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Netherlands’ Eising cruises to junior ‘cross title

Dutchman Tijmen Eising continued his season-long romp through the junior ranks of international cyclocross, riding away from the field within the first 300 meters of the world championship in Hoogerheide, the Netherlands, on Saturday. Eising, the overall World Cup champion and winner of three of the series’ six races, took early command of the field on Saturday.

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Hoogerheide: It depends on the weather

The weather in Hoogerheide, Holland, has improved over the last few days … and that may have as much to do with the outcome of this weekend’s world cyclocross championships than the relative fitness of individual riders. “We’re by the ocean,” said British Cycling Federation manager Simon Burney. “Every time I come here the course is different and it’s largely due to the weather. Skies have cleared, the snow is gone and temperatures hovering around the freezing point have turned what a week ago was a nearly unrideable mud bog into another fast worlds course.

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PRESS RELEASE: Geargrinder’s Brian Matter tunes up for world cyclocross championship

Sheboygan, WI - Brian Matter of Southeastern Wisconsin's Team GEARGRINDER, a member of the U.S. Men's World Cyclocross Team, will compete this Sunday, February 1st, at the Cyclocross World Championships in Hoogerheide, The Netherlands. Matter has spent the past week in Assenede, Belgium, for pre-Worlds training, and competed in nine days of racing at Euro Cross Camp VI in Belgium this past December. "To reach this accomplishment after 13 years of racing…I think that's

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Pipasa National Marathon Championships offer one-day racing in Costa Rica

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica -- For those mountain bikers who have heard about the beauty of Costa Rican mountain biking, but would prefer a more recreational getaway to the intense challenge of the multi-day endurance events, the Pipasa National Marathon Championships offers six great one-day racing opportunities in 2009, beginning with a UCI sanctioned event (level C1) on March 15th, in Patarrá. The Patarrá event is Round One of the series. It is an international challenge, that is expected to attract over 600 competitors from all over Central America, and probably a few dozen

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GP La Marseillaise opens Euro calendar

The long winter wait is over for fans champing at the bit to see some real European bike racing. The 2009 European calendar officially opens this weekend in France with the 26th GP La Marsellaise featuring 17 teams lining up for a 136.8km circuit on Sunday. The loop course around Marseille in southern France tackles some local climbs, including the Col de la Gineste, hard enough to give the adventurous rider a chance to escape the clutches of the main pack. The finish won’t be at Marseille’s glamorous Vieux-Port due to local roadwork and has been moved out toward the university.

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OUCH camp: Landis’ new team has a firm eye on Tour of California

A forecast calling for drizzle and cloud cover couldn’t scare away the 60 or so bike riders who showed up to the Holiday Inn in Temecula to ride with Floyd Landis and the 11 other members of the OUCH-Maxxis professional cycling team. The two-hour spin through nearby Fallbrook came at the beginning of the week long OUCH training camp, and the team organization opened it up to sponsors, media and the public.

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