Out of all countries competing at the Olympics next year, Canada will have the third most athletes hauling indoor cycling gear from the Tokyo runway to the Olympic Village. There’s 13 Canadian track racers in total, making up the majority of the largest cycling team that Canada’s ever sent to the Games.
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 he may have reached a fork in the road of achieving two of his longtime athletic goals.
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.
During the night of the Ottawa Sports Awards, Elly Woods sat nervously as she routinely checked her phone. It wasn’t in case word may have gotten out about the fate of the Male Athlete of the Year Award – since her husband, Mike Woods, had been announced as the winner two weeks prior – but because he was mid-race, on the other side of the globe.
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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.
A typical morning for Vincent De Haître starts with breakfast and a coffee and then he’s off to the cycling track. There, he’ll ride with teammates, or solo, doing interval training or hitting the road for a longer ride. After that, he’ll head home, eat again, nap, head back to the gym for a few hours, then back home for dinner and then bed.
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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.
The 2018 Global Relay Canadian Road Championships take place this weekend and Ottawa’s Katherine Maine is looking to repeat her strong cycling performances at last year’s national events.
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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.
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By Ottawa Sportspage Synchro swimmers near podium at FINA Artistic Swimming Worlds Two of Ottawa’s top synchro athletes participated in the 2018 FINA Artistic Swimming World Series in March, including Olivia Jensen-Large, who nearly made the podium as part of Canada’s top three teams at the event. Jensen-Large placed 4th in the women’s team free…
By Ottawa Sportspage Two Ottawa cyclists placed on the podium at Round 3 of the Union Cyclist Internationale Track Cycling World Cup. The Mattamy National Cycling Centre in Milton played host to the event for the first time and on home soil Ottawa Bicycle Club products Ariane Bonhomme and Derek Gee both contributed medal performances.…
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.
By Dan Plouffe The Ottawa Sport Council will bring together the local sports community for its Fall Sport Summit the evening of Nov. 29 at Ben Franklin Place, set to cover a topic that’s become a crucial tool for community sports organizations’ advancement: creating successful grant applications. “Most sport organizations seem to be able to…
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 Just years after abandoning his bike for skis, Timothy Austen finds himself back on the road climbing up the ranks of Canadian cycling. At age 17, after a suffering a concussion on his bike, the Ottawa native turned to cross-country skiing as a means to fill the void created by a discouraging…
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…
Ottawa welcomes cycling, athletics & triathlon nationals around Canada’s 150th By Martin Boyce Joanna Brown, Ariane Bonhomme and Sekou Kaba are all eager for the special chance to compete in their hometowns for Canadian championships in triathlon, cycling and track-and-field in the coming month, but the trio of top prospects for the podium in their…
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…
By Jamie Riggs: Included as part of the pre-World Championships preparation program the CCA organized for the U23 men this year, was the chance for 2 of us to ride the Olympic test event (technically the London-Surrey Cycle Classic), alongside Canadian elite riders Christian Meier, Dominique Rollin and David Veilleux. The selection was…
