The organisers of the Tour de Bloom have needed to curtail their 2026 plans to return as a 2.2-level stage race for elite ladies due to excessive prices. Nonetheless, the race will proceed for ladies and men from Might 14-19 within the USA’s Pacific Northwest however no UCI factors.
The Tour de Bloom will develop to 6 levels over six days for the elite classes. An omnium format comprising 4 levels on 4 days will likely be held for amateurs.
Marlies Mejias turns to crowdfunding to earn spot on Cuban workforce at LA Olympic Video games
Cuban-born Marlies Mejías Garcia is already a two-time Olympian for her nation, and needs to make a 3rd look in 2028 in Los Angeles, when the Video games will likely be held within the US, the place she now lives and races with the Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY28 workforce.
She deliberate to earn factors in the direction of Olympic qualification at this yr’s UCI Observe Biking World Championships, however realized that the Cuban Biking Federation wouldn’t help her participation in any monitor occasions this yr because of an absence of funding.
Since Mejías Garcia is a salaried athlete on the US-based Continental ladies’s workforce, the journey prices, occasion charges, track-specific gear, and choose coaching camps fall outdoors the workforce’s funds, too.
An completed street and monitor rider with 21 victories final yr, Mejías Garcia is seeking to elevate $25,000 with a GoFundMe marketing campaign to make use of for a three-year calendar of monitor competitions, together with World Cups, Pan-American Championships, and World Championships, to earn a spot on the Cuban Olympic Workforce.
“Asking for assist is not straightforward for me, however this journey is larger than worry or pleasure. Competing within the Pan American and World Cups is an important step towards my lifelong dream: incomes a spot on the Olympic Video games,” Mejías wrote on her fundraiser house web page. “Your help—whether or not by means of a donation, sharing this web page, or just believing in me—means greater than I can put into phrases.”
Simply days into launching the marketing campaign, Mejías has raised greater than $6,000.
Jim Brown and Noah Granigan be a part of L39ION of Los Angeles males’s squad
Jim Brown, Cory Lockwood, and Noah Granigan have been added to L39ION of Los Angeles in 2026, bringing the roster to 11 riders.
In November of final yr, L39ION co-founder Justin Williams confirmed that the boys’s squad would return to the Continental stage after racing as a membership workforce within the US the previous two seasons. He additionally disclosed that the roster would come with four-time USPro medalist Tyler Williams and 4 riders from Belize – himself, brother Cory Williams, Jyven Gonzalez, and 19-year-old expertise Jaylen Briceno.
Returning to the squad are Canadians Daniel Kalichman and Alex Cowan, in his sixth season on the workforce, and the USA’s Jason Paez.
Among the many three latest signings, British sprinter Brown will play a giant function within the workforce’s focus of one-day races. He rode for the Golden State Blazers final yr, successful a stage on the Redlands Bicycle Traditional and incomes podiums within the Athens Twilight Criterium, Capitol Cup, Clarendon Cup, and Harlem Skyscraper Traditional.
Lockwood and Granigan rode for the Blazers, a workforce owned by Williams Improvement Racing that closed final yr. Lockwood gained a stage at Valley of the Solar and was eighth within the time trial at USPro Highway Nationals. In 2022, Granigan gained the factors classification on the Joe Martin Stage Race and the mountains classification on the UCI 2.Professional Tour of Turkey whereas with the Wildlife Technology squad.
- Jaylen Briceno (BIZ)
- Jim Brown (GBR)
- Alex Cowan (CAN)
- Jyven Gonzalez (BIZ)
- Noah Granigan (USA)
- Daniel Kalichman (CAN)
- Cory Lockwood (USA)
- Jason Paez (USA)
- Cory Williams (BIZ)
- Justin Williams (BIZ)
- Tyler Williams (USA)
Cyclo-cross Worlds U23 bronze medalist Rafaelle Service leads 14-rider Canadian workforce at Hulst
Rafaëlle Service returns with Workforce Canada to the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in search of a medal within the U23 ladies’s division after a bronze‑medal end in final yr’s junior race. She will likely be joined by Nico Knoll and Dorothée Perron within the U23 race.
A complete of 14 athletes have been chosen to compete in Hulst, Netherlands, at Worlds – seven ladies and 7 males – with competitions set to happen from January 30 to February 1, 2026.
“We’re happy to convey one other robust Canadian workforce to the World Championships in Hulst. From athletes competing of their first Worlds to established medal contenders, this group displays the depth and progress of Canadian cyclocross,” Michael Van Den Ham, Biking Canada’s cyclo-cross lead, mentioned.
“Racing on the World Championships is a strong second in an athlete’s growth, and we’re proud to help them as they signify Canada on the world stage.”
The Workforce Relay begins competitions on Friday, with Canada represented by Knoll, Alexa Haviland, Sidney McGill, Emilien Belzile, Rhett Bates and Cody Scott.
Biking Canada workforce for UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships
Junior Ladies
Alexa Haviland
Claire MacKinnon
U23 Ladies
Rafaëlle Service
Nico Knoll
Dorothée Perron
Elite Ladies
Maghalie Rochette
Sidney McGill
Junior Males
Émilien Belzile
Sagan Goertz
Farland Lamont
Grayson Franks
U23 Males
Rhett Bates
Mathis Duval
Elite Males
Cody Scott