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This is probably going to be a long one. The #CXWorldCup went to Italy this weekend to try out racing on snow. Was it a success? Is this the direction that the sport of cyclocross is headed, or will it be a one-off? #ValdiSole #CXcoursereviews 1/23
First: the venue is the small town of Vermiglio, at an altitude of 1200 metres on the slopes of the Passo del Tonale (of Giro fame) with just over a thousand inhabitants. It seems to exist mainly to serve cross country skiing. 2/23
The winter sports season hasn’t really started yet, so this was the ideal moment for a ski resort to host a CX race. It’s a town in a valley between 2 mountains, so there’s a small river, and a bit of flat land around it, which is where the race takes place. 3/23
Last year’s edition of the #Robotlandcyclocross in #Essen was one of the reasons I started this series of course reviews, because there was so much wrong with it. Is it any better this year? #CXcoursereviews 1/10
Well, it takes place on a few fields and a little bit of forest around an old train station-turned-theme park. It’s nearly completely flat, just 1 small bank and a few man made hills. There isn’t much more to it, apart from the sandpit added for this year. 2/10
The sand was easy to ride, though, because of the rain. Which rules were broken? Well, which rules weren’t, you might ask. Firstly the asphalt was only 130 metres long, after that was a chicane onto the grass, but even if we count that as a straight, 3/10
