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Last year the World Cup in Dendermonde was the disastrous kind of epic, with huge running sections, and riders getting literally stuck in the mud. This year, same location, but was the course a bit better?
#CXWorldCup #Dendermonde 1/17
#CXWorldCup #Dendermonde 1/17
The location is possibly the most boring on the entire UCI calendar. There’s nothing to it, it was just 3 grass fields before Jurgen Mettepenningen got his hands on them. His organisation added 2 hills last year, and a sandpit and a pumptrack this year. 2/17
They also added 2 sets of steps on the hills, which were arguably unnecessary, but they added some colour. That, with the flyovers, gave the course the little amount of colour that it really needed, but the most important question is; Did it break any rules? 3/17
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
