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Gallery: Cyclo-cross World Championships 2021

Gallery: Cyclo-cross World Championships 2021

We saw four races over the weekend in Oostende, Belgium, where the 2021 UCI Cyclocross World Championships would be decided. Mathieu van der Poel, Wout...

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Koksijde

Dirty weekend in Koksijde: How to be a cyclo-cross spectator

One of the few cycling formats still going strong in the Covid-era, here's Rouleur's guide to the unique experience of being a cyclo-cross spectator – complete...

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The column: Cyclo-cross is on the slide

The column: Cyclo-cross is on the slide

Attendance at major races is down. Television viewing figures are also down. Belgium, we have a problem, and it’s not Mathieu van der Poel

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Rouleur podcast: Tom Pidcock, Allan Peiper and Santini

Rouleur podcast: Tom Pidcock, Allan Peiper and Santini

Pidcock’s progress, Allan Peiper on cycling and cancer, Santini and Polartec’s latest developments

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Super Tough: Cyclo-cross 1962 style featuring Beryl Burton

Super Tough: Cyclo-cross 1962 style featuring Beryl Burton

“And there goes Pauline and I’m afraid if she carries on like that, her bicycle won’t last very much longer.” Superb vintage film of early...

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Seaside CX: panoramas from the 2019 worlds course

Seaside CX: panoramas from the 2019 worlds course

The Danish will offer up their very own smörgåsbord of mud, wind and sweat when they host the world cyclo-cross championships in early February. Photographer Carsten...

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Why everyone’s talking about Wout van Aert, Classics star of the future

Why everyone’s talking about Wout van Aert, Classics star of the future

Analysis: He’s not the first cyclo-cross specialist to show potential in the Classics. But Wout van Aert’s early season showing has nonetheless been turning heads

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Snow relation: cycling’s many ties to the Winter Olympics

Snow relation: cycling’s many ties to the Winter Olympics

Are those ski pants you’re wearing? Didn’t a triathlete invent the aero bar? What have cycling and winter sports got in common? Quite a lot actually

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Tom Pidcock: “I don’t really practice on a ‘cross bike”

Tom Pidcock: “I don’t really practice on a ‘cross bike”

The junior world champion now aims for the under-23 title in Valkenburg.  Sven Nys’ assessment of Pidcock’s talents: “He rides like a Belgian”

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Rainbows in the mud: Britain’s first cyclo-cross world champion

Rainbows in the mud: Britain’s first cyclo-cross world champion

In 1986 Stuart Marshall ploughed through the mud to claim the junior world championship. Reading about the drama in the pages of a magazine had a profound effect...

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Robert Millar and the Muddy Marmite

Robert Millar and the Muddy Marmite

Cyclo-cross? Seriously, don’t bother, says refusenik Robert Millar

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British cyclo-cross champion Grant Ferguson: ‘I was the youngster once!’

British cyclo-cross champion Grant Ferguson: ‘I was the youngster once!’

Grant Ferguson is still only 24 but has British Under-23 titles in cyclo-cross and cross-country mountain biking. He just added the 2018 National elite cyclo-cross...

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Helen Wyman: High and Dry

Helen Wyman: High and Dry

One of the best cyclo-cross riders in the world is on top of her game, winning races and aiming for the World Championships in February....

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The Link: Cyclo-cross à Melun, 1924

The Link: Cyclo-cross à Melun, 1924

Early cyclo-cross: winter training for roadies or preparation for war?

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Bike change: Tom Pidcock returns to cyclo-cross

Bike change: Tom Pidcock returns to cyclo-cross

Having moved up a category, the junior world champion took two top-ten placings on the opening weekend of his cyclo-cross season. Tom Pidcock reflects on struggling in...

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Bright futures: guiding Britain’s cyclo-cross talent

Bright futures: guiding Britain’s cyclo-cross talent

Former professional cyclo-cross rider Matt Ellis was recently appointed manager of the British cyclo-cross squad. How bright is the future, Matt?

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