A cyclocross World Cup in New York? Difficult and unlikely says Watts

The winners of the UCI C1 races are awarded a commemorative hockey jersey from the University of Wisconsin Madison with Waterloo and a number 1 on the back.
The winners of the UCI C1 races are awarded a commemorative hockey jersey from the University of Wisconsin Madison with Waterloo and a number 1 on the back. (Image credit: SnowyMountain Photography)

After the success of the UCI Cyclocross World Championships in Hoogerheide, UCI Director of Sports Peter van den Abeele hinted that future rounds of the UCI World Cup series could be held as far and wide as New York, Munich and even Johannesburg, South Africa.

However, those ambitions seem difficult to achieve.

Stephen Farrand
Head of News

Stephen is the most experienced member of the Cyclingnews team, having reported on professional cycling since 1994. He has been Head of News at Cyclingnews since 2022, before which he held the position of European editor since 2012 and previously worked for Reuters, Shift Active Media, and CyclingWeekly, among other publications.