The race is over for the long-running Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com workforce. In a sudden announcement on social media Monday, the US-based cyclo-cross programme acknowledged it could stop operations and never proceed for a seventeenth season.
“Sadly, all journeys should come to an finish. Right this moment, we’re sharing the tough information that the Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld workforce is not going to return subsequent season. Whereas it is a arduous resolution, we all know the time is true,” the workforce stated in a press release posted on Twitter and Instagram.
Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld was the longest-running and most achieved elite-level cyclo-cross workforce in the US, rising to the forefront of the game underneath the route of Stu Thorne. Over the 16 years of the workforce’s existence, a number of the prime American athletes within the sport of cyclo-cross grabbed the highlight whereas using within the signature lime inexperienced colors and claimed stars-and-stripes jerseys at US nationwide championships.
Two-time elite ladies’s nationwide champion Clara Honsinger has raced with the squad throughout the cyclo-cross season and her teammates there have included Kaitie Keough, Emma White, and Katie Clouse. On the boys’s aspect, Tim Johnson, Jeremy Powers, Ryan Trebon, Curtis White and three-time US nationwide champion Stephen Hyde raced for Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.
In a recap of their 2021-2022 season, Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld famous it had 29 wins and 35 podiums, which included an U23 title for Clouse and a second stars-and-stripes jersey for Honsinger within the ladies’s elite race in December.
A loaded roster of riders took half within the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Arkansas simply six weeks in the past, a uncommon alternative for a home-based Worlds. Honsinger and White have been the highest American elite riders, putting eleventh and twelfth, respectively. Clouse was certainly one of three Individuals within the prime 12 for under-23 ladies and AJ August was fifth within the junior males’s race.
Simply this previous season Hyde, Keough and Emma White retired from competitors, Hyde having raced with the CXWorld workforce for 5 seasons and Keough with the workforce for 12 years. White was a multi-disciplinary bicycle owner who combined highway and cyclo-cross with time on the observe for Workforce USA on the Olympic Video games. With the Cannondale- Cyclocrossworld workforce, she received the ladies’s U23 cyclo-cross title in 2018 and completed seventh within the U23 class at Worlds.
In February, 4 main sponsors for the workforce acquired shoutouts on social media posts, Cannondale, SRAM and Zipp wheels all having been a part of the ‘cross programme since 2006. “We’re excited for what the way forward for our partnership will deliver,” the posts declared, not foreshadowing the demise of the workforce.
Hyde took to social media on Monday to submit his feedback. “What an unimaginable legacy you permit behind. So blissful and proud to have been part of all of it myself. For ever grateful for my time with you all and the complete sport owes you a large spherical of applause.”
Curtis White, who was with the workforce for nearly 10 seasons, additionally joined the refrain. “I’m full of gratitude and appreciation to have spent 9 seasons pursuing my ardour with the workforce. Thanks on your affect on my profession, the careers of so many others, and the complete sport.”
