“We are back to where we were 10 years ago” - North American cyclocross riders left disappointed as the UCI announce a fully European schedule for the 2024/25 World Cup

Funny, XC WC venues has the cost comparable to Winter Olympics venues, I guess that is why Winter Olympics rarely switching venues, since the cost of staging one is very expensive, unlike Summer Olympics, where they switch venues more often, as the cost of staging one is far lower compared to the winter one.

And, winter sports aren't as popular as the summer ones, largely because they require snow, and the last Winter games played in Beijing, China using artificial snow, also known as man-made snow. So, XC WC's popularity is popularity and cost of staging one, per venue, is comparable to the Winter Olympics

I think that’s a sensible way to go about it. Once the sport is popular enough, the show will come back.

FYI, there are plenty of countries, including in Europe, that have never hosted an XC WC event, it’s just not really a global sport.

There are many things to take into consideration, when you look at the Olympics or Football WC, they also just do the rounds of usual countries. Same with Baseball, A. Football, Ice Hockey, Ice skating, etc. they’re all glued around « traditional » choices.

Besides, it’s not a very rich sport, the costs (also environmental) of moving the riders and show across the globe for one event is prohibitive. F1 stinks of money and can do what it wants (not caring much about moral issues) and the moving is certainly more for certain folks prestige than to help local fans, tickets being far too expensive for anyone but the elite (who in any case would fly around to follow).

The whole concept of the XC « WC » is out of sync with how things are moving, they might do well to consider a football approach with regional leagues leading up to an itinerant World Championship maybe every 2 years.