Lucinda Brand confirmed her status as the best current women’s cyclocross rider by winning Saturday’s dramatic UCI Elite Women’s World Championship on a slippery course in Hulst. It was her 19th victory in 24 starts this season, during which she also won the UCI World…
If I had a farm to bet, I would bet it, and all the livestock on it, on Mathieu van der Poel winning Sunday’s Elite Men’s Cyclo-cross World Championship and breaking the men’s wins record he now shares with Erik De Vlaeminck. If he wins…
I’m starting this overview of the weekend’s four World Cup races with Saturday’s Elite Men’s race because it was a remarkably dramatic contest that reminded us of why we love cyclocross and because it demonstrated the overwhelming superiority of Mathieu van der Poel and the…
Mathieu van der Poel wasn’t going to race at Benidorm on Sunday, but his friends talked him into it, and Lucinda Brand was coming off two straight defeats, so she had something to prove. But whatever the motive, the two dominant cyclocross riders of the…
