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Weekend Preview – Calabria and Marseille

The European road season begins this weekend with the traditional season openers in Italy and France: the 2.1 Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria and the 1.1 Grand Prix la Marseillaise. A race traditionally known to favor Italian teams, Calabria began earlier today with Lampre’s Daniele Pietropoli taking the stage win over Fabio Taborre (Acqua … Continue reading

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Cyclocross World Championship Preview

Initial reports from St-Wendel in advance of this weekend’s Cyclocross World Championship races are that it will be bitterly cold. If there’s no snow, the frozen ground will be hard and fast. The course does feature some tricky sections – Podium Insight tweeted a picture of reigning champion Zdenek Stybar having a bit of difficulty … Continue reading

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Letters from Abroad – Valentin’s Picks for Worlds

For the past two seasons, Valentin Scherz, a 20-year-old elite cyclocross racer from Switzerland, has come to the US to compete in races as part of the Philadelphia Cyclocross School program. This season he was captain of their 2010 Cyfac-Champion Systems p/b Revolution Wheelworks Team. In 2010, Scherz successfully defended his Mid Atlantic Cyclocross Series … Continue reading

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International Cyclocross Power Rankings: Week #18

With a half a week left until the World Championships, we have all the fodder for speculation that we’ll get. As always, here are Pavé’s Cyclocross Power Rankings, with each rider’s ranking from last week in parenthesis. 1. Niels Albert (1). He’s won five races in January and shows no signs of weakness. Going into … Continue reading

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International Cyclocross Weekend Wrap-Up: 1 Week Till Worlds

This past weekend saw two races – on Saturday, the Kasteelcross Zonnebeke in Belgium, and on Sunday, the final race of the World Cup series in Hoogerheidi, Netherlands. In Zonnebeke, Rob Peeters credited some unusually good legs that allowed him to respond to Dieter Vanthourenhout’s early acceleration and then respond with his own, opening a … Continue reading

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BREAKING NEWS

We interrupt this otherwise ordinary Friday night to bring you this breaking news. If we understand this new information correctly, Belgian cycling star Tom Boonen plans to target this year’s Spring Classics. That’s according to Velo Nation. We here at Pavé will bring you more on that story as it develops.

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