A global box has arrived in Liévin to compete on the 2025 UCI Cyclo-cross International Championships (January 31-February 2), the Crew Relay going down on Friday and racing proceeding with the lads’s and ladies’s junior, under-23 and elite divisions all over the weekend.
On Thursday morning, alternatively, portions of the direction had been closed because of heavy rainfall, which disrupted one of the most riders’ plans to preview the circuit forward of the development.
“Due to heavy rainfall until early afternoon, some grassy sections of the course are closed to cyclo-cross. Parallel sections or shortcuts have been created,” the UCI said in a Wielerflits report.
Riders could still preview parts of the course, but the organisers closed areas of the route that pass over grass. But the rainy weather is expected to clear before the racing begins on Friday, with the temperatures dropping to below freezing overnight before climbing back to 6°Celsius during the day, making way for what could be muddy conditions.
“It will be cloudy with occasional light rain,” Sporza’s Bram Verbruggen studies at the weekend climate forecast.
“The freezing cold will also return on Saturday and Sunday morning. The weekend will start grey, after noon we will gradually get clear spells at 5 degrees. Sunday will also see a cold start to the day with low clouds, but clearings will follow quite quickly and in the afternoon it will be quite sunny with 5 degrees.”
The organizer and course builder at the Liévin Worlds, Mickaël Lemardele, told Wielerflits that the changing weather conditions could lead to several outcomes, from a tough battle through the thick mud to dry and faster conditions.
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“Whether it is muddy, then you’ll have to stroll portions,” he said. “Then it is only a tricky move. But when it is only in between, then you definately get a really nice move with actually great energy sections.”
Image presentations an empty observe sooner than a coaching consultation forward of the Cyclo-cross International Championship in Liévin (Symbol credit score: Getty Photographs)
