Cycling Weekly — February 08, 2018

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Mark the diary

British Cycling announces

domestic calendar for 2018

British Cycling has revealed dates and

venues for the men’s 2018 road racing

calendar, with 14 events in towns and

cities across the country starting in mid-

April and concluding at the end of August.

“It’s great to see a number of new races

on this year’s road calendar, such as the

Bristol GP and the Barnsley GP, sitting

alongside a host of incredibly popular

and well-established events,” said Jonny

Clay, British Cycling’s director of cycling.

World’s best

Matthew Glaetzer sets

new kilo time trial record

Matthew Glaetzer broke his own sea-

level world record for the one-kilometre

time trial at the Australian National

Track Championships on Thursday.

The 25-year-old Australian

bettered his mark of 59.

seconds set during the

Track World Cup round

in Manchester in

November, clocking

a blistering new time

of 59.759 seconds.

“Records are

meant to be broken,

esp ll h h

are yours, you just

want to keep bettering yourself,” he told

Cycling Australia.

Cycling’s fourth official

Video commissaires to be

used in races for the fi rst

time in 2018

The UCI have announced reforms in

response to the case of Peter Sagan’s

disqualifi cation from the Tour de France

last summer.

Bora-Hansgrohe were due to take

the UCI to the Court of Arbitration for

Sport after Sagan was disqualifi ed from

the Tour for what commissaires saw

as a dangerous manoeuvre causing

Mark Cavendish to crash. However,

the two parties settled their dispute

in December, with the UCI agreeing

to let commissaires use video footage

in future. The new “support/TV

commissaire” will be introduced

at Grand Tours, Monuments and

World Championships.

Glory Down Under

Chaves seals

Herald Sun Tour

ctory

Mitchelton-Scott’s Esteban

Chaves claimed his fi rst

overall victory of the season

after launching a solo breakaway on the

penultimate stage to stamp his authority

on the race.

Chaves headed up a Michelton-Scott

podium clean sweep as Cameron Mayer

and Damien Howson rounded out the

top three.

It was the second stage race victory in

the Colombian’s career and comes as he

builds towards this year’s Giro d’Italia,

where he is looking to go one better than

his second place overall in 2016.

Cobbles on canvas

Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne

reveals eye-catching

Sagan race poster

For 2018, race organisers of Kuurne-

Brussels-Kuurne have capitalised on the

race being the only one won by Peter

Sagan during his 2017 Classics campaign

by putting the three-time world champion

on their poster in a very unusual pose.

Instead of his usual wheelie, Sagan is

depicted riding a horse that is rearing

up while he points his fi nger towards

the sky in a manner similar to Napoleon

Bonaparte in Jacques-Louis David’s 1801

painting Napoleon Crossing the Alps.

However, instead of showing the

Alpine scenery and the French army in

the background, Sagan is shown riding

his horse on the cobbles of a Flemish

berg with fans cheering him on.

BC’s domestic diary is

chock-full of quality racing

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