The National Cycling League (NCL) has announced a two-year collaboration with Wahoo Fitness. The partnership will be used for racer-fan interaction at four NCL events and at four criteriums this year for league-affiliated teams, the Denver Disruptors and Miami Knights.

The NCL's invitation-only race calendar begins April 8 in Miami Beach, Florida, and ends in Washington, D.C., in September.

"We are proud to partner with Wahoo Fitness, a leader in sports technology innovation, to integrate with NCL," said Paris Wallace, co-founder and CEO of NCL. Wahoo's groundbreaking device ecosystem and Wahoo X software's ability to track and monitor athlete performance will enable our head coach to optimize training and race strategies across individual athlete and team performance. is the perfect partner to optimize athletes and provide valuable insights to fans."

Wahoo's RGT interactive cycling platform allows cycling fans to immerse themselves in the race alongside their riders, "integrating athlete performance data with unparalleled interactive content that bridges the gap between reality and the metaverse NCL envisions that it will "make it possible to ...

The virtual experience will begin the night before the Miami Beach race, allowing fans to "virtually race with the stars of the sport," according to Kelly Staley, NCL's vice president of partnerships. Athletes from all 10 men's and women's teams will compete in a single sprint using Wahoo KICKR smart trainers. The results of the sprints will determine the starting order for Saturday's professional men's and women's races.

"Our goal was to bring the NCL's exciting race format to the masses, and our partnership with Wahoo allows us to bring our fans into the actual race, an experience that not even the NFL can offer," said Steely.

The Maryland Cycling Classic will return for a second season on September 3, 2023, and will continue with UnitedHealthcare as the presenting sponsor.

The Maryland Cycling Classic, sponsored by UnitedHealthcare, is currently the highest UCI ranked event in the United States and is a one-day race in the Pro Series. The Maryland event is followed by the Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec on September 8 and the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal and WorldTour one-day race on September 10.

In the first Maryland Cycling Classic, Sepp Vanmarcke (Israel Premier Tech) won a sprint win in downtown Baltimore from a five-man breakaway group, with Nicholas Zukowski (Human Powered Health) in second and Nielson Powles (EF Education-Easy Post).

Host partners for the Maryland Cycling Classic include the City of Baltimore, Visit Baltimore, Baltimore County, and the State of Maryland. The event is sanctioned by the UCI and USA Cycling, with Medalist Sports, LLC handling overall operations and KOM Sports Marketing handling public relations. The event is a production of the Maryland Sports & Entertainment Corporation.

Evolo Cycling is entering its seventh year as a national elite development team and will head to Greece to begin the 2023 road season. The team completed a 12-day training camp last week near Santa Monica, California, adding four new riders to its roster of nine.

Five American riders, Leo Gullickson, Tobias Klein, Brody McDonald, Gabriel Shipley, and Brooks Wieneke, will return for another season. They will be joined by three up-and-coming American riders, Evan Boyle, Sean Christian, and Quinn Felton, as well as New Zealand's Xander White.

The only one of the nine riders not at the California camp, 21-year-old White remained in New Zealand and took bronze in the U23 individual time trial, finishing third in the opening stage of the New Zealand Cycle Classic in mid-January. This was his second podium finish in the early season.

Aebolo will compete this weekend in the Visit South Aegean Islands, a two-day UCI 2.2 event over 348 km of hilly terrain on March 4-5. after the Grand Prix of Rhodes on March 11, the team will compete in the four-day International Tour of After the Rhodes Grand Prix on March 11, the team will compete in the four-day International Tour of Rhodes. Major U.S. summer events include the Joe Martin Stage Race and the US Amateur Championships.

Matteo Dal-Cin will return in 2023 to lead the Toronto Hustle, one of four registered Canadian men's Continental teams. Currently in its seventh season, Toronto Hustle has 10 Canadian riders on its road team.

In its fourth year, the team will be supported by a women-only gravel program led by Steph Au and Holly Clarke. Joining them this season will be Georgina Graham and Emily Jago.

"We learned a lot last year when we stepped up to UCI Pro. And we are building on that learning with new talent and a new management structure," said Dalsin, who is entering his 10th season in the pro peloton.

Last year, Dalsin won GC at the South Aegean Tour, second overall at the Tour of the Gila, and a silver medal at the Canadian Championship Time Trial. New teammates Carson Milles and Evan Burtnick finished fourth and fifth, respectively, at the Road Race National Championships. Burtnick and Chris Ernst bring speed to the team from their track experience with the Canadian National Team.

The team said in a press release that it will focus on the road gravel North American calendar and line up "as the only foreign team in the National Cycling League."

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