Visma–Lease a Bike is a Dutch professional bicycle racing team, successor of the former Rabobank. The team consists of four sections: ProTeam, Women's Team, Development Team, and cyclo-cross.
François "Franck" Pervis is a French track cyclist. He is a former junior world champion in the team sprint and twice European under 23 champion, as well as a seven-time world champion and a holder of two world records. In 2014 he became the first track cyclist to win three individual world titles at one championship, in the keirin, 1 km and sprint.
Lotto Dstny Ladies is a women's professional cycling team based in Belgium, which competes in elite road bicycle racing and track cycling events, such as the UCI Women's World Tour. The team was established in 2006, and its colours are white, black, and red. The team manager and representative is Kurt Van De Wouwer, and the assistant team manager is Annelies Dom. Sponsors Lotto and Soudal also sponsor the Lotto–Dstny men's UCI WorldTeam.
Alpecin–Deceuninck is a UCI WorldTeam cycling team that is based in Belgium. It competes both in the road and cyclo-cross seasons. The leaders of the team have in the past been cyclo-cross world champion Niels Albert, Philipp Walsleben and Radomír Šimůnek. The team's current lead rider is the cyclocross and road world champion and multiple monuments winner Mathieu van der Poel.
Rebecca Angharad James is a Welsh former professional racing cyclist specialising in track cycling. James was the 2013 world sprint and keirin champion. She is a 2016 Rio Olympics double silver medalist.
2020 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. Many sporting events around the world were postponed or cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, which eventually took place in 2021.
Vrienden van het Platteland was a Dutch UCI women's road cycling team that existed in the 2000–2008 road cycling seasons.
Thalita de Jong is a Dutch racing cyclist, who currently rides for Dutch amateur team JEGG–DJR Academy. In 2016, de Jong won the elite women's title at the Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships, the UEC European Cyclo-cross Championships and the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.
Mathieu van der Poel is a Dutch professional cyclist who rides for the UCI WorldTeam Alpecin–Deceuninck. He competes in the cyclo-cross, mountain biking and road racing disciplines of the sport.
Harrie Lavreysen is a Dutch track cyclist who competes in sprint events. He is two-time Olympic gold medalist, having won the sprint and team sprint event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Lavreysen also competed at the 2016 UEC European Track Championships in the team sprint event. He has won thirteen world championship titles, including five titles in the team sprint (2018–2021,2023), five consecutive titles in the individual sprint (2019–2023), as well as three in the keirin (2020–2022).
The 2016 in cycling results is given as follows:
Thomas Pidcock is a British cyclist who currently competes in the cyclo-cross, mountain bike and road bicycle racing disciplines of the sport for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers.
The 2017–18 Telenet UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup was a season long cyclo-cross competition, organised by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup took place between 17 September 2017 and 28 January 2018, over a total of nine events. The defending champions were Wout van Aert in the men's competition and Sophie de Boer in the women's competition.
The 2017 in cycling results is given as follows:
BEAT Cycling is a UCI Continental team founded in 2017 that is based in the Netherlands. The team, which competes in both road and track cycling, gained UCI Continental status the following year. The team's founding riders were Matthijs Büchli, Theo Bos and Roy van den Berg. The coach is Tim Veldt.
The 2018 in cycling results is given as follows:
The 2019 in cycling results is given as follows:
Mikhail Iakovlev, also known as Mikhail Yakovlev is a Russian-born Israeli world-record-holding racing cyclist. He won the bronze medal in the keirin event at the 2021 UCI Track Cycling World Championships representing Russia, and bronze medals in Sprint in the 2021 European Championship representing Russia, and in the 2024 European Championship representing Israel. In 2022 Yakovlev set a new world record in the 200m flying trial in 9.099 seconds. Iakovlev will represent Israel at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in cycling in the Men's sprint on August 7-9, and the Men's keirin on August 10-11, 2024.
The cycling rivalry between Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel is considered among the greatest and longest lasting rivalries in the sport, as they are contemporaries and have competed against each other since they were both eight years old. They raced each other for the first time in a major event in the 2012 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships – Men's junior race and continuously since October 2013, originally in cyclo-cross and as their ambitions grew further also in road racing. The supporters of both riders, the Belgian media and later worldwide sports journalists began comparing one another regarding track record, racing style and personality.
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