Race director of 2022 Cyclo-cross Worlds resigns

Athletes compete during the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in 2020
Athletes compete during the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in 2020 (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)

In a surprise announcement Wednesday, Brook Watts will be stepping aside as the race director for the 2022 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, as well as the 2021 World Cup, in Fayetteville, Arkansas

The move, effective immediately, comes just three weeks after Watts issued his opposition to a statewide bill, SB-354, from Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson that would ban transgender girls and women from school sports teams which aligned with their gender identity.

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