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Saturday, November 5, 2022

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2022 Tour de France | 2022 Giro d'Italia

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer

Bill & Carol McGann's book The Story of the Tour de France, 2020: The Tour During Covid-19, Better Late Than Never is available in both Kindle eBook and Audiobook versions. To get your copy, just click on the Amazon link on the right.

Current racing:

• Nov 5 & 6: European Cyclocross Championships

Upcoming racing

• Nov 20: Vlaamse Druivenveldrit Overijse Cross
• Dec 4: Scheldecross Antwerp
• Dec 10: Exact Cross Essen
• Dec 26: Gavere Cyclocross
• Dec 27: Heusden-Zolder Cyclocross
• Dec 29: Diegem Cyclocross
• Dec 30: Azencross-Loenhout
• Jan 1: GP Sven Nys Cyclocross
• Jan 14 - 22: Schwalbe Classic & Tour Down Under
• Jan 22 - 29: Vuelta a San Juan
• Jan 25 - 29: Challenge Illes Balears-Volta Ciclista a Mallorca
• Jan 28 & 29: Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

Latest completed racing:

• Nov 1: Trofee Oudenaarde-Koppenbergcross
• Oct 29: Superprestige Ruddervoorde Cyclocross
• Oct 11 - 18: Tour de Langkawi
• Oct 16: Japan Cup
• Oct 16: Veneto Classic
• Oct 16: Chrono des Nations
• Oct 12: Giro del Veneto

Here’s the team’s announcement:

Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl has reached an agreement with Yves Lampaert, which will see him stay with the team until the end of 2025. The 31-year-old from Izegem has had a memorable 2022, with most remembering the unfortunate crash at his beloved Paris-Roubaix, which cost him a probable podium place. Equally emotional was the opening stage of the Tour de France, where Yves powered his way to victory in the individual time trial in Copenhagen and took the famous and coveted yellow jersey.

Yves Lampaert enjoying his time in yellow at the 2022 Tour de France. Sirotti photo

Having joined the team in 2015, Yves’ new contact reaches through 2025, meaning it will see him complete a decade with the team, where he has carved a niche for himself as a classic specialist, a powerful time trialist and a reliable domestique and teammate. His career has seen him take 15 individual victories so far, with as well as the aforementioned Tour de France stage victory, his palmares including wins also at the Vuelta a España, Tour de Suisse, Tour of Britain, Dwars door Vlaanderen (2017 and 2018) and Classic Brugge-De Panne. He is also part of an elite club of riders to have held both the Belgian National Road Race (2018) and Time Trial titles (2017 and 2021).

Speaking in reaching his new agreement, Yves said: “I am really happy that I can stay for three more years with the team. I see the team as my family and I am aways really proud when can be successful, so let’s see if we can add some more in the coming years. I would like to thank Patrick (Lefevere) for the confidence that he has shown in me and I hope to repay that faith.”

Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl CEO Patrick Lefevere reflected on the agreement when saying: “I am very happy that we could come to an agreement that will see Yves stay with the team. When we think of his last year, we think of what happened in Paris - Roubaix and being in yellow at the Tour de France, but the bigger picture is so much more than that. He has taken some big victories individually but he also works tirelessly for others and he is a huge part of our team and we are delighted that we will have him for three more years.”

Cycling Weekly posted this:

American UCI ProTeam cycling team, Human Powered Health, today announced that Ro De Jonckere will become the program’s general manager in 2023, the only female to hold the GM position in a men's UCI ProSeries team and at men's WorldTour races.

De Jonckere previously served as the program's European Operations Manager as part of her 20 years of experience across cycling.

The Belgian grew up in the sport. Her father was the marketing director for the Domo-Frites team — the precursor to Quick Step— and her neighbor was former Belgian pro and 2005 Gent Wevelgem winner Nico Mattan.

When Patrick Lefevere and his team needed an office manager, De Jonckere got her start in the cycling business.

"I had no clue about cycling. I couldn’t tell you the difference between a front and a back wheel but you grow into it very quickly," she recalls.

She ended up staying with the Quick Step program in various capacities for more than 12 years before taken the post as Head of Logistics at Team Qhubeka. After five years there, she joined Human Powered Health.

You can read the entire story here.

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