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Bend, OR resident, and Team RadioShack® Rider will return to his home state to promote and participate in the state’s inaugural Echelon event

We recently had the chance to talk to Joan Hanscom, one of the organizers of the very popular U.S. Grand Prix of Cyclocross, and now, one of the folks instrumental in bringing the 2013 Cyclocross World Championships to the USA.

The Bend, Oregon economic development organization has released a video from the 2009 U.S. ‘Cross Champs. Very high quality video and definitely worth 5 minutes of your time.

The 2010 edition of the Women’s Prestige Cycling Series will feature four national-caliber stage races that promise to showcase the country’s top female cycling talent.

Registration is now open for Trek’s Dirt Series mountain bike skills camps for women.

The U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross and Advanced Sports Inc. are pleased to announce that FUJI will be the Official Bike Sponsor of the 2009 series.

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):

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Professional cycling world shocked by two deaths, Paolo Bettini to race in Cremona Six Day, Contador now glad to have Armstrong as a teammate, Merckx thinks that Armstrong can best the hour record, Basso recons Giro and more….

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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 …