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unusual facts about Cyclo


Cyclo-cross

The first United States Cyclo-cross National Championships took place on October 20, 1963 in Palo Park, IL, near Chicago.


2006 World University Cycling Championship

The city of Herentals is located in the geographic region of Campine, which is well known for cyclo-cross.

Col d'Aubisque

The summit of the col is marked by a commemorative plaque to André Bach, 1888–1945, member of Legion of Honour and President of the Cyclo Club of Béarn (C.C.B.).

Daphny van den Brand

She won eight national cyclo-cross championships and the cyclo-cross world championship in 2003 in Monopoli.

Grand Prix du Nouvel-An

The Grand Prix du Nouvel-An also called after its sponsor Grand Prix Hotel Threeland is a cyclo-cross race held in Pétange, Luxembourg.

Grand Prix Erik De Vlaeminck

The Grand Prix Eric De Vlaeminck is a cyclo-cross race on and around the circuit Terlaemen in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium.

Jeremy Powers

Jeremy Powers (born June 29, 1983 in Niantic, Connecticut) is an American professional racing cyclist who has found success in cyclo-cross and road bicycle racing.

Katie Compton

In 2007 she became the first American woman to podium in the Cyclo-cross World Championships (held in the Cyclo-cross capital of the world that year—Belgium) where she won silver between a French duo composed of Maryline Salvetat (who took the gold) and Laurence Leboucher (who won the bronze).

Maurice Seynaeve

Maurice Seynaeve (Heule (near Kortrijk) Belgium, 31 January 1907 - Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires Argentina, 28 November 1998) was a Belgian Cyclo-cross rider in the years 1928-1940.

Physalin

Physalins are steroidal constituents of Physalis plants which possess an unusual 13,14-seco-16,24-cyclo-steroidal ring skeleton (where the bond that is normally present between the 13 and 14 positions in other steroids is broken while a new bond between positions 16 and 24 is formed; see figure below).

Tetrapeptide

Tentoxin (cyclo(N-methyl-L-alanyl-L-leucyl-N-methyl-trans-dehydrophenyl-alanyl-glycyl)) is a natural cyclic tetrapeptide produced by phytopathogenic fungi from genus Alternaria.

Thijs Al

He still became third at the Dutch national mountain bike championships, but afterwards his main results were from the cyclo-cross, among those his second position in Veghel-Eerde and his third position in Hofstade.

Tôn-Thất Tiết

Tôn-Thất Tiết composed the scores for Trần Anh Hùng's three feature films: The Scent of Green Papaya, Cyclo, and The Vertical Ray of the Sun, and has also collaborated with French choreographer Régine Chopinot on two of her dance pieces: Parole de feu (1995) and Danse du temps (1999).


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