Caroline Mani (Alpha Groove Silverthorne) started the 2022 season in the same fashion as last year by dominating the two-day race at Virginia's Blue Ridge GO Cross p/b Deschutes Brewery in Roanoke. On the men's side, Vincent Vestance (Spitz CX Team) won both days of GO Cross, restoring the same dominance he had early in the race in the US a year ago.

GO Cross hosted the opening C1 event of the international cyclocross calendar and the C2 race to launch the 2022 USA Cycling Pro Cyclocross Calendar (Pro CX), a points-based series covering 18 races across nine states. GO Cross also hosted the elite It was also the opening weekend of an eight-race USCX cyclocross series that will offer points and new prize money to the field.

French rider Mani won back-to-back races in Virginia to take the early USCX lead, followed by two American riders, Raylin Nass (Steve Tilford Foundation Racing) in second and Austin Killips (Nice Bike) in third. Canadian Magali Rochette (Specialized/Feedback Sports), who finished seventh in the UCI Cyclocross World Championships, competed only in Saturday's C1 event and finished fifth.

Fighting for the lead with Baestaens was American elite CX National Champion Eric Brunner (Blue Competition Cycles p/b Build), who tried to handle a late charge by the Belgian on both days and finished 2nd in the He tried to handle a late charge by the Belgian on both days and finished second. On Saturday, Roanoke resident Kerry Warner (Kona Adventure Team) finished third ahead of Michael Van Den Ham (Giant x Easton). On Sunday, Curtis White (Steve Tilford Foundation Racing) pulled away from the duo of Werner and Van den Ham to take the final step on the podium.

The USCX Cyclocross Series returns with four race weekends this fall, starting with last weekend's season-opening C1 and C2 races at Blue Ridge GO Cross presented by Deschutes Brewery in Virginia this month, all events It was announced that all events will be live streamed. The women's and men's elite races will be available to subscribers of GCN+, Eurosport+ and Discovery+.

In addition to the revamped points structure, athletes will be aiming for $15,000 in prize money, which will be split evenly between the men's and women's elite fields at the end of the season at the Really Rad Festival of Cyclo-cross on November 5-6.

GO Cross and the Really Rad Festival have been added to the lineup this year with the addition of C1 race days to both events. Returning to the series are the Rochester Cyclocross in upstate New York on September 24-25 and the Charm City Cross in Baltimore, Maryland on October 1-2.

Baestaens won five straight races at last year's USCX Series opener (Rochester, Charm City, and Jingle Cross) before returning to Europe. Gosse van der Meer of the Netherlands held off Baestaens to move into second place overall, while Brunner was fourth.

Mani was consistent in seven of the eight races to take the USCX women's overall title. Rochette won five of the six races, but the lack of a full schedule gave Mani the advantage. Nuss, last year's Pan Am champion, secured third place overall.

The long-running New England Cyclocross Series was put on hold until 2022. Series organizer Adam Meyerson has postponed the 2022 event in an attempt to reinvigorate the series, which has existed to varying degrees for over 40 years.

In 2018, the series will consist of the GP of Gloucester, Northampton, and Supercross (replaced in 2016 by the Baystate Cyclo-cross) with eight days of racing in Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island and the NBX Grand Prix. The cancellation of the event hit several events, and the replacement added the Really Rad Festival of Cyclo-cross. However, with Really Rad moving to the USCX series this year, only Northampton remains and will operate independently as part of USA Cycling's Pro CX calendar.

"Today, there are only four UCI races and two race weekends in New England. With Falmouth joining the USCX Series, only Northampton remains, and in a statement posted on the NECXS website, Meyerson said, "We considered running the series with just two races, but instead decided it was best to suspend the series. When more New England events are ready to step up to UCI status and match the format and categories we have focused on, the series will be revived."

Brandon Fihaly (Project Echelon Racing) and Maggie Coles-Leister (DNA Pro Cycling) won the overall and sprint class titles in the 2022 American Criterium Cup. Best Buddies Racing dominated the men's team, while Colavita Factor Pro Cycling took the women's team title ahead of Butcher Box Cycling p/b LOOK.

On September 4, individual riders and teams split the $100,000 prize money equally between men and women after the final race at the Giro della Montagna, part of the four-day Bonmarito Audi Gateway Cup in St. Louis.

In the women's 6-month competition, ButcherBox Cycling p/b LOOK's Andrea Sill chased down Coles-Leister, finishing second in both the sprint and overall categories. Anna Christian of Colavita Factor was third overall and won the under 23 category. Teammate Christina Gokie-Smith finished third in the sprint competition.

In the men's race, Feehery held a commanding lead until the final event. Clever Martinez (Miami Blazers) and Alfredo Rodriquez (Best Buddies Racing) finished second and third, respectively, in the individual standings. Best Buddies also won the under 23 category with a one-two in the sprint competition between Fihaly and Ethan Crain. Michael Hernandez (Best Buddies) scored enough points in the first half of the series to finish third.

The Bucks County Classic, held in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, was founded in 2004 as a men's criterium, with a women's race added in 2015.

Mexican national road champion Katia Martinez (CWA Racing p/b Goldman Sachs ETFs) won the Doylestown Health Pro women's race solo, with teammate Danielly Garcia in third. in second place were. Samantha Schneider (L39LION of Los Angeles).

Conditions were cool and wet on the 1.4-mile course with eight turns.

"This is my favorite race on the calendar and we came here to win," said CWA Racing team director Dennis Ramirez.

In the nightcap, 50-mile Thompson Pro men's race, Scott McGill (Wildlife Generation) edged second-place finisher Danny Summerhill (Best Buddies Racing) and young Australian Ethan Crain ( Project Echelon Racing), who ran through the uphill finish. [The L39ion of LA train of Ty Magner, Alec Cohen, Tyler Williams, and Edel Freire leads the peloton. With 350 meters to go and a final uphill finish, Wildlife Generation's Noah Granigan attacked and teammate McGill took the win.

"Noah's lead out was amazing. All I had to do was get off his wheel."

McGill will compete in Sunday's UCI Road World Championships Elite Men's Road Race after a late call-up.