Zolder

If cycling observers weren’t familiar with the term “technological fraud” before this week for some reason, they certainly are now.

Ruby West, the young ‘cross specialist from Dundas, Ontario, shone in Canada’s colours this weekend at the world championships in Heusden-Zolder—and she’s also a powerful sign of things to come in Canadian cyclocross.

Though this will likely be the last European ‘cross competition for Schooler, an athlete who has forged a sterling reputation in the discipline, he anticipates it being the kind of tough race he’s come to expect in Belgium.