The road to the Tokyo Olympic Games is a foggy one at best during the COVID-19 pandemic, but for Mike Woods the global pause in action has offered up some silver linings.

For Ariane Bonhomme, the news that Canada wouldn’t be sending a team to Tokyo was devastating. But with what followed just days later – the Olympic Committee’s decision to postpone the Games until next summer – she discovered a bright side.

Vincent De Haître was getting dressed for a bike ride on the morning of March 22 when he got a phone call explaining that his path to achieving two of his longtime athletic goals may have been split in two.

For two cyclists from the same city sharing a podium at one of the cycling’s top international events, it would be difficult to find a pair of athletes whose tracks to get there are more vastly different than Ottawa’s Vincent De Haître and Derek Gee.

Making her debut at the Canadian Road Cycling Championships, 16-year-old Laury Milette rode away with a silver medal in the junior women’s road race on June 30 in St-Georges, Que.

Derek Gee is riding high after he and the rest of the Canadian men’s track cycling team capped off their best world championships performance ever in early March.

Mike Woods’ racing season was maybe more crushing but still triumphant than any cyclist’s in the world, and like always, his wife Elly had his back.

The 2018 Global Relay Canadian Road Championships went about as well as they could have for Ottawa’s Katherine Maine, who came home from the events in Saguenay, Que. with two gold medals and a bronze.

Ottawa native Mike Woods recently competed in the first Grand Tour of the cycling season – the Giro d’Italia – where he finished 19th in the general classification despite dealing with a brutal case of bronchitis and crashing on Stage 11 of the race.

Mike Woods finished 7th in the general classification of the Vuelta a España, a three-week long (Aug. 19 – Sept. 10) Grand Tour race that started in Nîmes, France and wrapped up in Madrid, Spain. Woods’ finish was the best ever by a Canadian at the Vuelta a España and the fifth best by a Canadian in a Grand Tour race ever.

Gradually earning respect as one of the planet’s best riders in his sophomore World Tour season, Ottawa native Mike Woods has ensured his name is known throughout the cycling world with his performance in the Vuelta a España, the second Grand Tour of the 30-year-old’s career. The Cannondale-Drapac pro athlete finished 3rd in the 9th…

By Martin Boyce Barreling around the final corner, haunting memories of last year’s wicked crash flashing through his mind, Ottawa native Matteo Dal-Cin laid off the gas for a moment in the turn, then hit the pedals full tilt down the final stretch to sprint to victory in the Global Relay Canadian Road Cycling Championships…

Five years after trading in his track spikes, runner-turned-cyclist Mike Woods is peddling himself closer to his goal of racing in the Tour de France.

Ottawa cyclists survive many bumps in the road, nasty crashes, en route to nationals dominance By Victoria Klassen & Dan Plouffe, published July 5, 2016 in Ottawa Sportspage It was a showcase moment for local cycling as the nation’s capital hosted the Global Relay Canadian Road Championships from June 25-29, with Ottawa riders flexing their…