Bike Channel-Canyon will continue to race in 2018 despite TV channel's closure

Bike Channel-Canyon have reassured riders and staff that they will be able to race in 2018

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Bike Channel-Canyon will continue to race as UCI Continental team in 2018, despite the imminent closure of the TV channel that forms part of the team’s name.

As reported last night, Cycling Weekly understands that Bike Channel are close to closure.

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Chris Marshall-Bell

A freelance sports journalist and podcaster, you'll mostly find Chris's byline attached to news scoops, profile interviews and feature writing across a variety of different publications. He has been writing regularly for Cycling Weekly since 2013.


Previously a ski, hiking and cycling guide in a number of places, but mostly in the Canadian Rockies and Spanish Pyrenees, he almost certainly holds the record for the most number of interviews conducted from snowy mountains.


He lives in Valencia, Spain.