New teams and new kits were on display at the first cyclocross race of 2020: the GP Sven Nys in Baal, Belgium. Alpecin-Fenix (formerly Corendon-Circus) was certainly the most talked about, with a complete change in name and color scheme; also the fact that their riders appear most often on the top step of the podium.

Few big-name riders showed up to Waaslandcross in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. But among those big names were the World Champions, Sanne Cant and Mathieu Van Der Poel, who both won their respective categories on Saturday.

The headline names in Essen had little to do with the current crop of CX racing talent – Marianne Vos and Zdenek Stybar were the names on everyone’s lips, despite the latter finishing in a lowly, but still respectable, 12th place.