Cycling Weekly – July 25, 2019

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NEWS

QKnox extends contract

at Deceuninck-Quick Step

Deceuninck-Quick Step may

have a lot going on in France

right now, but they still found

time to sort out a new contract

for promising British rider

James Knox. The

23-year-old, who hails

from Cumbria, has

been with the team

nearly two seasons

and showed

promise in the

Giro d’Italia

— his fi rst Grand

Tour — in May

before being

forced to

abandon due to

a knee problem

sustained in

a crash.

18.057

miles covered by 90-year-old John Lee in 60 minutes

at Welwyn track last week, setting a new age-related Hour

record. It is Lee’s fourth Hour record — he set the fi rst when he

was 80 with a distance of 21.281 miles. Lee, who is president of

Icknield Road Club, has been racing his bike since 1952. “A lot of

people in life when they get to a certain age think well, that’s it,

I can’t do anything,” he said after setting the record. “But you

can if you’ve got the will to do it and of course the fi tness.”

QBrother sweep the boards at National Circuit Champs

The National Circuit Championship in Rochester, Kent,

at the weekend saw an impressive one-two-three-four

from Brother UK-Tifosi-OnForm, as Rebecca Durrell

outsprinted team-mate Anna Henderson, with

Gabriella Shaw and Charmaine Porter, coming in a

minute behind. In the men’s race Joey Walker

(Madison-Genesis) outsprinted unlucky Isaac Munday

(Richardsons-Trek), who unclipped in the fi nishing

straight. Matthew Bostock (Canyon-dhb-Bloor

Homes) was third.

THE HUB

Pidcock wins mtb champs

National cyclo-cross champion Tom Pidcock took a fat-tyred excursion

on Sunday and won himself the U23 Mountain Bike Cross-country

Championship, outsprinting Sean Flynn and Cameron Orr.

“Only downhill, BMX and road champs for the full

collection,” he joked on Twitter afterwards. The U23

women’s race was won by Evie Richards (Trek Factory

Racing), while the senior titles were taken by Frazer

Clacherty (Inspired) and Annie Last (KMC-Ekoi Orbea).

All the news you might have missed from the last seven days

Pidcock: another

discipline, another trophy

D’Hoore: crashed

at BeNe Ladies Tour

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D’Hoore out of action again

Belgian rider Jolien D’Hoore

expects to be out of action for

up to two months, after

crashing with a kilometre to go

in the BeNe Ladies Tour last

week. It was the second time

the 29-year-old, who rides for

Boels-Dolmans, suff ered a

bone fracture in four months,

having broken her collarbone in

the Drentse Eight in March. “I

can’t explain in words how

devastated I am but life goes

on, I guess,” she said in a

message on Twitter.