Haley ascends the brutal climb at Spa-Francorchamps, representing the United States to make the podium. Photo grabbed from footage by Olivier Iserbyt
The American Juniors of cyclocross have not only landed in Europe, but they are making their names known. Gavin Haley and Gage Hecht have already put on a clinic in the last two weeks, each of them tallying a win in the Junior race attached to a World Cup stage.
Haley, with a racing age of 17, also landed a podium spot in the Superprestige at Spa-Francorchamps: a brutal, European-style course that drained riders of everything they had by the last lap, and then some. Haley takes to climbs like a champ, and shows the crowd a thing or two about descending on a Formula 1 track.
The future of American cyclocross certainly looks bright. Video below posted on YouTube by user Olivier Iserbyt:
