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Friends of Canadian Cyclo-cross Racers
Friends have raised $4000.00 |
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As Cyclo-cross is not an Olympic sport, the Canadian Cycling Association doesn't provide any funding for the National Cyclo-cross Team, meaning riders must cover their own airfare, accommodations, meals, equipment expenses and even their national team jerseys. We have seen the commitment that it has taken for these riders to qualify and get there and we want to help them along by taking some of the financial burden off of their shoulders, allowing them to focus on their racing and representing Canada at Cross Worlds in Treviso. |
Thanks to your generous support, the Friends of Canadian Cyclocross Racers in 06/07 raised over $4000 of support for the National CX team's Worlds project in Hooglede-Gits cutting the riders' costs by a third. For the '08 Worlds, our goal is to provide $750 of support for each rider. As it stands today, prior to selections being announced, we don't know what this works out to as a total, but it's a goal.
Here is the best guess at who is going...
Elite women: Wendy Simms, Lyne Bessette, Kelly Jones
Elite men: Mike Garrigan, Osmond Bakker, Aaron Schooler
U23 men: Kyle Douglas , Brian Robinson , Shaun Adamson , Ian Manning
Junior men: David Larson
As a start, we've been selling socks - you may have seen FCCR socks out on the roads/trails. This kicked off the 07/08 campaign and will raise around the first $1k of support. We have a few left, so these will be mailed out to the first people to contribute.
As last year, we hope that a major sponsor will come forward and contact the CCA in support of the National Team. Funds can be directed to specific projects and we believe that the CX team project is as important as others. And as per last year, you can also contact the CCA directly to make a contribution.
For those who contributed last year and submitted an address for a tax receipt - the CCA will be sending a tax receipt with their year end mailings. We apologize for the delay, but it is out of our hands. We can again provide a tax receipt this year, but it will be for the 2008 tax year and will be mailed with the year end for this year.
The 07/08 World Championships are in Treviso Italy on January 26/27th, 2008.
As always, stay tuned to this page for updates.
For more information on the Friends of Canadian Cross Racers, email rod@cyclocrossontario.com
Friends of Canadian Cross Racers include:| Cyclocross Ontario | Craig Fagan |
| Garnett Abbey | Pedal Magazine |
| Martin Kohn | Peter Mogg |
| Briana Illingworth | Mark Summers |
| Paul Brend | Linda Olliver |
| Jay Heins | Mike Mandel |
| supaFan.com | Alex Sanna |
| Alex Bhogal | Jason Jarvis |
| Brendan Canty | Paul Kennedy |
| Graham Tutti | Finn Pedersen |
| Mark Pagell | Andrew Gustyn |
| Peter J Leiss | Jennifer L Walker |
| Pierre Perrin | Alex Bhogal |
| Alex Sanna | David Dermont |
| Glen Rendall | Michael Fy |
| Rob Orange |
Thanks everyone for your support!!!
Wheels in motion for Cara's Hope fundraiser
Melissa Hancock - Published on May 13, 2008
http://www.cambridgetimes.ca/news/article/128110
A Cambridge bike shop owner will test his endurance this weekend during a 24-hour bicycle race that he will compete in to raise funds for a local maternity home.
Clifford Vanclief, owner of The Hub Bicycle Shop, said the 24-hour race will be challenging, but he's prepared to do it to raise money for Cara's Hope Maternity Home. His goal is $1,000.
The Hub/Devinci Cyclocross Team at The Paris to Ancaster
The Hub Bicycle Shop in partnership with Cycles Devinci is proud to announce the formation of The Hub/Devinci Cyclocross Team. The team is composed of 4 cyclocross racers who are eager to take on some of North America’s best Elite, Junior and Masters racers. First up for the team will be southern Ontario’s spring classic enduro, Paris to Ancaster on Sunday April 20th and the main part of their cyclocross season beginning in September.
Canadian Cyclo-cross National Championships Press Release Round 2.
March 17, 2008 (Scott Kelly, Edmonton, AB) - Edmonton's Juventus Cycling Club has been awarded the rights to host the 2008 and 2009 Canadian National Cyclo-Cross Championships which will run alongside the UCI Jim Horner Cyclocross Grand Prix. The Canadian Cycling Association (CCA) selected Edmonton as the host of the event to be run at the Argyll Park.
2008 CX Worlds - Treviso - Day #1
Juniors - 11am start
Arnaud Jouffroy from France won the Junior race after working his way up to the lead group of Peter Sagan (Slovakia) and Lubomir Petrus (Czech Republic). The last lap had Jouffroy ahead to start, while the other two caught him through the back half when he was caught behind a lapped rider, but he caught them immediate
ly and attacked again hard, pulling away again for the win.
Centennial Park Cycling Committees to meet.
Reminder:
As you may be aware the concept of including a cycling training facility at Centennial Park Toronto has been incorporated into Centennial Park's new master plan by the project planners. (Briefing at bottom of email)
To move this from concept to reality will require a significant amount of effort over the next two years. The hard work starts Tuesday, January 29th with the first meetings of the Needs and Fundraising Committees.
2008 Treviso Cyclo-cross Worlds Preview
As of Wednesday night, the Canadian team has all arrived and are staying in Treviso, Italy to begin final preparations for the '07/08 Cyclo-cross World Championships. The riders who have been here since the beginning of the week have seen the course take shape and Thursday had the entire course fenced off and most teams were seen checking out the course.
Lievin World Cup Cross - 2008
Nobody said that World Cups were easy and Lievin surely was not. The weather wasn't a big factor in the race, but the course certainly was.
Chown Report - Issue #3
Well I am now typing at an even lower rate than before due to me nice hunter's orange cast. The guy said it was a good orange, yeah right.
