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 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

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

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