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- good organisation
- there should have been an official program book to keep as cycling memorabilia / collector's item in the future instead of spreading thousands of brochures to join the Belgian army and the Belgian police and magazines of Floréal recreation
- asking 5€/day for a parking lot "nearby" the venue is not acceptable, people already paid a lot for their entrance ticket, there should have been free shuttle buses instead
- food and drinks (and the cup to be able to drink) were also too expensive... as usual
What a great event in a beautiful setting great facilities parking great location and great range of food and drinks. Especially Having Real Belgian fries serving there delicious Fries and snacks.
Excellent day out, fantastic course and exciting racing! Only negative point was that the commentary could only be heard in the main central area - would have been great to hear it on the start line and on outlying parts of the course. Otherwise it was brilliant!
As a sport event it deserves a 10 star, but as you are ask about the whole event, I regret the fact that the amenities for food was a bit on the shorthand considering the amount of people that attended the event, and as a result the queues and waiting time where long.
The racing was great, but the amenities could be better
Cyclo-cross - also referred to as cyclocross, CX, or cyclo-X - is a racing discipline in cycling. Races typically take place in the autumn and winter months to ensure the terrain is tough, muddy, or even snowy to make the competition even harder.
Cyclo-cross races consist of many laps of a short (2.5-3.5 km) course on varying surfaces including concrete or tarmac, wooded trails, mud, grass, sharp inclines, and other obstacles. The obstacles require the rider to dismount and carry their bike to get over the obstruction and then they remount. The sport is very popular in traditional road cycling countries such as Belgium, France, and the Netherlands with many road cyclists having spent some of their career as a cyclo-cross rider.
The origins of cyclo-cross are much debated with some saying it comes from European road racers in the early 1900s racing to the next town and cutting through fields, thus clearing obstacles by any means necessary. Frenchman Daniel Gousseau is credited as having inspired the first cyclo-cross races and organised the first French National Championship in 1902. However, it was not until the 1940s that the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) began considering the sport and the first Cyclo-Cross World Championship was held in 1950 in Paris.
Cyclo-cross is similar mountain bike racing and cross-country cycling though on a shorter course with laps and cyclo-cross riders are allowed to get off their bikes. Many of the best cyclo-cross riders compete in other cycling disciplines such as road and endurance track cycling. The bicycles are lightweight like road bikes so that competitors can carry them, but they also share characteristics with mountain bicycles in that they use thick tread tires for grip. Compared with other forms of cycling, the tactics are fairly straightforward with an emphasis on the rider's skills in endurance and bike-handling. A cyclo-cross rider is allowed to change bicycles and receive mechanical assistance during a race. While the rider is on the course on one bike, their pit crew can clean up, repair, and oil a spare.

