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Doug Report Daily Cycling News Archive

World Championships: Michal Kwiatkowski wins men's road race gold.

Michal Kwiatkowski (Poland) claimed the rainbow jersey with a late attack in the men’s road race in Ponferrada, Spain. The 24-year-old jumped clear with seven kilometres to go and despite a late chase he was able to hold off Simon Gerrans (Australia) and Alejandro Valverde (Spain) who took silver and bronze. (cyclingnews.com)

Swift praises Kwiatkowski after World's win.

Ben Swift was the best-placed Team Sky rider in 12th as the world road race championship came down to a grandstand finish. The Brit was well positioned for much of the showpiece event but the fast pace and attacks over the final ascent of the Mirador swung the balance away from the remaining sprinters. (cyclingquotes.com)

Degenkolb: If I had felt super, I would have been there.

John Degenkolb had to settle for 9th in today’s Worlds road race after he had been unable to follow the attacks on the final climb. Having been setback by illness in the build-up, the German is convinced that he would have been in the group that sprinted for second if he had been at 100%. (cyclingquotes.com)

Rob Jebb wins Three Peaks Cyclo Cross for 11th time.

Rob Jebb racked up his 11th Three Peaks Cyclo Cross title on Sunday with a ride which saw him finish in under three hours. The Hope Factory Racing rider’s time of 2:59.25 was 3:02 quicker than second-placed Nick Craig. Jebb holds the course record with a 2:52.22 set back in 2008. (cyclingweekly.co.uk)

Powers Fights for First After Barrier Crash, Wyman Keeps her Winning Ways at Rapha Super Cross Gloucester.

Forget the muddy or cold Gloucester cyclocross of years past. For the last two years, Gloucester has provided a venue of clear skies and dusty lines: great for the spectators, a difficult challenge for riders. Corners were harder to hold with the loose gravel and of course, the heat was brutal for the high intensity racing. For the fourth straight weekend, waterbottles on the bikes of elite riders like those shown on Wyman and Anthony’s bikes above were not an uncommon sight. (cxmagazine.com)

2014 Races & Results.

UCI Road World Championship - Sept 20-27 (Races & Results),

Santos Tour Down Under - Jan 18-25 (Stages),

Vuelta a España - Aug 23-Sept 14 (Results),

Tour de France - July 5-27 (Results),

Giro d'Italia - May 9 - June 1 (Results),

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Txurruka wins Tour du Gévaudan.

Vuillermoz claims finale in Mende. (cyclingnews.com)

Worlds: Ferrand-Prevot secures the gold medal.

Men's Junior Road Race: Bokeloh wins with a late sprint.

Punchy Circuit Makes 2014 Worlds RR an Enigma.

Ferrand-Prevot May Dominate Women’s Racing in Future.

Climbing specialist Ferrand-Prevot stunned her rivals by winning a sprint finish following a 127km race on the 18.2km circuit around Ponferrada in northern Spain on Saturday. While reigning champion Marianne Vos — three times a winner of the rainbow jersey — could only finish 10th and double world title-holder Giorgia Bronzini of Italy was fourth, Ferrand-Prevot added the elite women’s crown to her junior gold medal from 2010. But even so, she says she will not give up competing in either mountain biking or cyclo-cross, in both of which she is French champion. (pelotonmagazine.com)

Armitstead slates Worlds rivals for “negative racing.”

After a lack of collaboration in a late four-up break caused Lizzie Armitstead’s best chance of taking a medal to date in the world championships to fizzle out almost within sight of the line, the Briton’s disappointment after the finish was obvious. (cyclingnews.com)

Gerrans: I wanted to cry when I crossed the finish line.

As has been so often the case, it looked as though everything was falling into place for Simon Gerrans. The Australian arrived at the Ponferrada World Championships as the man of the moment after his brace of victories in Canada earlier in the month, and in the finale he seemed once again to be in the right place at the right time. (cyclingnews.com)

Gilbert: In the Worlds, first place is all that counts.

Never mind truth and reconciliation, the immediate aftermath of the World Championships road race is a theatre of truth and recrimination. For the winner, the podium, the rainbow jersey and the handshakes. For the vanquished, the mixed zone, the microphones and the instant post-mortems. (cyclingnews.com)

Gallopin and Bouhanni lay down markers for future in Ponferrada.

As he stood outside the Europcar team bus – on loan for the week to the French Cycling Federation – Tony Gallopin was struggling to decide if the glass was half full or half empty. In finishing sixth at the World Championships in the elite men's road race, he had lived up to his side of the bargain as a leader of the French team, but he was aware, too, that opportunities like Ponferrada don’t come around every year. (cyclingnews.com)

Georgios Bouglas ready to fly the flag for Greece at Road World Championships.

Georgios Bouglas will make his World Championship debut as the sole representative for Greece today having been registered for the elite men’s road race 10 minutes before deadline last Friday. The Greek national road champion originally wasn’t going to be sent by his federation however he arrived two days ago with just his Continental team SP Tableware trainer Vasilis Anastopoulous. (cyclingweekly.co.uk)

U.S. women’s team disappointed despite Shelly Olds’ top-10 finish.

Steve Tilford: World Road Championships.

The Moment The Race Was Won: World Championships.

Michał Kwiatkowski drops the last of a four man group on the final climb of the Mirador above Ponferrada. He’d slipped the bunch on the descent with risky move, both for his safety on wet roads but tactically as there were four riders to get in his way up ahead. He seemed to take a breather before accelerating again and now solo he was never caught again. This was the moment the race was won. (inrng.com)

Kwiatkowski crowned world champion, silver for Gerrans.

Australia’s Simon Gerrans had to settle for second after Michal Kwiatkowski claimed a sensational victory in men’s road race at the UCI Road World Championships in Ponferrada, Spain. (sbs.com.au)

Nothing ventured, nothing gained: Michal Kwiatkowski gambles and wins.

Michal Kwiatkowski dared to attack while the others waited, making a risky bet that paid off in a rainbow jersey, Poland’s first in the elite men’s road race. The 24-year-old attacked over the top of the penultimate climb on the final lap of the 14-lap, 254km race Sunday, bridging out to an attacking foursome, then riding alone across the line ahead of a superstar chase group, celebrating his audacious victory and leaving his rivals to wonder what they had done wrong. (velonews.com)

Valverde takes sixth medal in World Championships.

It’s strange but true that despite Alejandro Valverde ‘only’ taking bronze during Sunday’s elite men’s road race at the Ponferrada World Championships, rather than the silver and bronze medals he and Joaquim Rodriguez captured for their country in the 2013 edition, the Spanish team seemed much more satisfied with their collective performance. (cyclingnews.com)

Ellingworth praises British performance at Worlds.

A solid but eventually unsuccessful effort by Great Britain in the World Championships ended with Ben Swift claiming twelfth in the sprint for the line in the second chase group behind winner Michel Kwiatkowski. (cyclingnews.com)

Worlds: Canada's chances cruelled by crash in women's road race.

The Canadian women's team had a World Championships to forget on Saturday in Ponferrada, Spain. A large crash in the peloton on the second of seven laps brought down all four riders on the team with only Lex Albrecht able to briefly remount her bike. (cyclingnews.com)

The ideal warm-up.

How should you warm up before you race? That depends, says Ric Stern, senior coach at cycling coaching company rstsport.com.  “While it’s possible to go for a ride without warming up, for a race or fast-starting sportive, it’s essential, and should be part physiological, part psychological and part ‘engineering’.”

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