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Frenchman Jonathan Hivert (Saur-Sojasun) won the sprint in Sunday’s Grand Prix La Marseillaise, the first race of the 2010 French Cup (Coupe de France)

Redline congratulates Dutch team rider Martijn Scherpen on taking the 2009 European BMX title.

Several European news sources are reporting this morning that Radio Shack will be the “major American sponsor” expected to be announced by Lance Armstrong later today for his 2010 cycling team.

Here are the answers to last week’s April Fools contest. Unfortunately, we did not receive any completely correct guesses. Lest some of you complain, you had to correctly guess the true news items and not be fooled by the false ones.
Here are the answers

With the growing popularity of bicycle commuting, bike thefts are on the upswing. Bike friendly communities such as Austin, Portland and Madison have a dramatic increase in thefts in their downtown areas. Police advise bicycle users to lock their bikes on to a bike rack, use a …

Okay, here’s the deal. Some of this news is true and some is not. Anyone who can correctly separate the wheat from the chaff and send me the numbers of the true news items to aprilfools@bikeworldnews.com will be entered into a drawing for some cool cycling prizes.
The contest will run through April 7th. I’ll do a drawing from all of the correct entries on the 8th and contact the winner about getting their prizes to them.
Here’s the news (sort of):

Tags: bi collarbone, columbia, contests, cycling, doping, European, garmin, Lance, Look, …

USA Cycling sent out a news update. Here are some of the highlights:

The recent growth trends of participation in competitive cycling are continuing as USA Cycling this week exceeded 63,200 members for the 2008 season – an increase of nearly 2.7% compared to this week last year. USA Cycling finished the 2007 season with 61,564 licenses sold. Currently, mountain bike license sales are up over 2.6% while Road, Track and Cyclo-cross license sales are up nearly 3.6%.
Applications for USA Cycling’s Club of the Year are now available on-line here …

It was classic cyclocross racing in Koppenberg today. This was a the first major European race this season to see rain and mud, resulting in riders covered from head to toe, low speed crashes, slippery run-ups and more.
Sven Nys edged out Lars Boom for the win, with Niels Albert coming across about 45 seconds later.
Let’s go to the tape…

Video courtesy of Crosstube.net

Tags: European, Niels Albert, Rabobank, Sven Nys

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