{"id":661611,"date":"2026-05-11T05:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/661611\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T05:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:29:14","slug":"cyclists-compete-in-madison-for-the-usa-cycling-collegiate-national-titles-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/661611\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclists compete in Madison for the USA Cycling collegiate national titles | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADISON, (WKOW)\u00a0\u2014 Student-athletes from colleges across the country gathered in Madison this weekend for the 2026 Collegiate Road National Championships hosted by USA Cycling.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day event featured a team time trial Friday, a road race Saturday and criterium national championships Sunday as teams wrapped up their collegiate cycling season.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the athletes competing this weekend are also graduating this week, making the championships an important end to their season.<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa Drummond, manager of collegiate cycling for USA Cycling, said the atmosphere throughout the weekend has been positive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been amazing,&#8221; Drummond said. &#8220;The Town, local community, everyone has been so welcoming. We&#8217;ve had beautiful weather, which is always a plus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Drummond said one of the highlights of collegiate cycling is bringing athletes from across the country together in different host cities each year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bringing all of the colleges and the collegiate athletes together on a campus, basically, we&#8217;re on a campus here, is really cool,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The experience has been really great for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Drummond also praised Madison and Wisconsin for hosting the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We love coming to Wisconsin, and the roads are great,&#8221; Drummond said. &#8220;The community is great, very welcoming.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON, (WKOW)\u00a0\u2014 Student-athletes from colleges across the country gathered in Madison this weekend for the 2026 Collegiate Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,44,82,39],"class_list":["post-661611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}