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De Ketele and Risi win the “Lotto” in Hasselt, Iljo Keisse ready to come back, two Quickstep riders on the bench, Julien Absalon tries the road, Belgian classics season starts and more…

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A weekend of records and crashes just about sums up the three days the worlds best had at Copenhagen.
Star of the show has to be Taylor Phinney, setting, or should that be smashing the US records in both pursuit and kilo. Not only has Phinney set down a benchmark for future performances, but he may well have set the trend for future years with pursuiters racing the shorter event.
If Phinney walked away with a smile on his face Chris Hoy left the track with something else. A gold in the …

Today’s report comes from sunny Newark, NJ! Katusha team does well at the first two stages of the Mallorca Challenge, Marvulli and Aeschbah lead in Cremona, Armstrong to ride Tour of Qatar in 2010, Fredriek Nolf comes home to Belgium, and more…

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Basque races merge, Trek designers get new studio, Thomas Dekker out of Etoile de Besseges, Katusha has new website, Basso makes European re-debut and more…

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Marianne Vos won the women’s world cyclocross championships on a cold and fast course, outsprinting Germany’s Hanka Kupfernagel and American Katie Compton.
The race got off to an action-packed start with a crash in the first turn. Compton emerged as the early leader, with Kupfernagel, Christel Ferrier-Bruneau (France) and Vos leading the chase. Heading into the third lap, Compton’s lead grew to 9 seconds, but Kupfernagel and Vos reeled her in by the start of lap 4. The German then took the lead and the American struggled a bit to stay …

On a course which was dry and frozen, Dutch rider Tijmen Eising attacked on the first lap and never looked back. A chase group of about 12 riders was unable to reel him in. By the end of the race, the chase group splintered apart, as riders launched individual attacks in an attempt to land on the podium. In the end, Corne Van Kessel, also from the Netherlands, edged out France’s Alexandre Billon for second place.
Of the Americans in the race, Luke Keough fared the best, finishing in 13th place. US National Champion …

Daphny van den Brand and Sven Nys won the Elite Women’s and Elite Men’s races in Milan in close races over their biggest rivals. Click here for full reports of the races from Cyclocross Magazine.
The top three men in the 2008/2009 World Cup were Sven Nys (620 points), Bart Wellens (502) and Zdenek Stybar (497).
The top three women in the 2008/2009 World Cup were Hanka Kupfernagel (420 points). Daphny van den Brand (365) and Katie Compton (270).
Kathy Sarvary won at the Masters’ Worlds in the <1960 (birth yesr) group and Lillian Peluke finished …

Our friends over at Cyclelicio.us bring us the final team listing for the Tour of California. Rock Racing made the list after straightening out their license issues and the race adds the Cervelo Test Team, Fly V Australia presented by Successful Living Foundation, and Team Type 1 as new participants.
Watch our site for an upcoming special announcement about rider diaries and the Tour of California!

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Here are a few cyclocross-related bits for the day:

US Grand Prix Cyclocross series expands to four weekends this year:

Sept. 26-27: Planet Bike Cup in Madison, Wisconsin.
Oct. 24-25: Louisville, Kentucky.
Nov. 14-15: Mercer Cup in Mercer County, New Jersey.
Dec. 5-6: Portland, Oregon.

CrossVegas 2008 will be on Universial Sports cable at 6pm on Sunday, January 25th. Click here for additional information, including encore presentation times.
And speaking of bike racing and television, UCI reports that the 2008 cyclocross world championships were the top-ranked sporting event broadcast by the Flemmish-language public TV station in Belgium. In …

From USA Cycling:
Colorado Springs, Colo. (January 14, 2009)-USA Cycling announced today the five athletes that were nominated to represent the United States in the elite men’s category at the 2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships on Feb. 1 in Hoogerheide, Netherlands.
Ryan Trebon (Bend, Ore.), Tim Johnson (Middleton, Mass.) and Jeremy Powers (Hadley, Mass.) all earned automatic nominations to the team as the top three Americans in the UCI rankings.
Trebon (20th) and Powers (27th) will head to the Netherlands to contest the event. Johnson, ranked 22nd in the world, has declined his …