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Telenet Fidea Cycling Team to Cross After Dark
Posted on 27. May, 2011 by lyne.
Two-time cyclocross World Champion Bart Wellens will begin his 2011 cyclocross season in the U.S. by racing the opening two rounds of the new Cross After Dark national cyclocross series. Wellens and his Telenet Fidea teammate Rob Peeters, both of Belgium, will make U.S. cyclocross debuts at Cross After Dark Race 1, CrossVegas on September [...]
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CrossVegas Ready to Launch International Cross Season in Style
Posted on 16. Feb, 2011 by lyne.
CrossVegas uses the tagline “the international cyclocross season starts American Style in Las Vegas” and it seems more fitting each year. 2011 looks to be no exception with the announcement by the organizer that the fifth edition of the race will return September 14. The biggest cyclocross race outside of Europe is big by any [...]
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Interbike Returns to Vegas in September for 2011 Show
Posted on 13. Oct, 2010 by lyne.
When it was first announced that Interbike would be moving to Anaheim, the response from many, if not most, of the exhibitors was a clear no way no how. They listened and the show is staying in Las Vegas. The good news in all of this is that we get more two more years of [...]
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Photo Gallery CrossVegas
Posted on 23. Sep, 2010 by lyne.
Photo Gallery of Elite Women and Elite Men races at CrossVegas
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Nash, Mourey Top CrossVegas
Posted on 23. Sep, 2010 by lyne.
Under a full moon, with the lights of Las Vegas shimmering in the distance, Katerina Nash (Luna Pro Team) and Francis Mourey (FDJ) took the win in on Wednesday night in what could be the last CrossVegas. The two races could not have been different with the winner in the women’s race self-evident while it [...]
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Stacked Field For CrossVegas
Posted on 30. Aug, 2010 by lyne.
CrossVegas organizer Brook Watts sounded like a Las Vegas odds maker as he described the field that he has managed to bring together for the September 22nd race. “The winners of the CrossVegas titles are going to come from the best field ever assembled in America. Whether you break it out by national champions attending [...]
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CrossVegas Promoter Named “50+ Planners & Places to Watch in 2010”
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by lyne.
Brook Watts of Longmont Colorado, was among the honorees of SportsEvents Magazine’s Annual Readers’ Choice Awards. The special feature, “50+ Planners & Places to Watch in 2010,” included in the January 2010 issue of SportsEvents Magazine spotlights industry professionals from across the country including Watts, promoter of CrossVegas. The industry professionals profiled in SportsEvents Magazine’s [...]
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Sights and Sounds from CrossVegas
Posted on 24. Sep, 2009 by lyne.
A crowd estimated, by the organizers, to be almost 10,000 spectators, filled the Desert Breeze Soccer Complex in Las Vegas for the third edition of CrossVegas. With the largest international field of cyclocross racers ever assembled in the U.S. competing, the anticipated international battle of America versus the world never developed. Jamey Driscoll (Cannondale/Cyclocrossworld) captured [...]
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Ryan Trebon wins CrossVegas for the second time
Posted on 28. Sep, 2008 by lyne.
The crowds were bigger and rowdier by the time the men’s CrossVegas race started at 9pm. The presence of Lance Armstrong brought out a lot of media and the scrum at the start/finish line was unbelievable (see pic below). It was so bad that when I was talking to the winner Ryan Trebon (Kona) after [...]
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Katie Compton wins Women’s CrossVegas 2008crossvegas, ryan trebon, kona, interbike, cross, cyclocross
Posted on 28. Sep, 2008 by lyne.
The Men’s and Women’s CrossVegas 2008 races were a blast. While there was no mud and the course was considered ‘easy’, the racing was fast and aggressive, the crowds big and enthusiastic (and beered up as it should be in a cross race) and the organizers had set up plenty of flood lights to help [...]

