*The UCI Cyclocross World Cup won't be coming to Dublin as planned this year but there is a promise to hold the race in 12 months time (Photo: Martine Verfaillie)*

The UCI has announced the Dublin round of the Cyclocross World Cup is scrapped for the coming cyclocross season but has promised to proceed with the fixture twelve months later.

The disappointing news comes as the World Cup fixtures
have been revised due to Covid19 and the extension of the road race season.

However, most of the fixtures in the original calendar have
survived, with the Dublin round among just three rounds that had been planned
but which will not now take place.

The rounds in Waterloo in the United States of America as
well as Dublin and Antwerp in Belgium have been postponed to the 2021-2022
season, while the round in Zonhoven, Belgium, moved from October 25th to December
13th, takes the place of Antwerp.

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UCI president David Lappartient said that working with cyclocross promoters Flanders Classics and other organisers, the international cyclocross community had done well to establish a revised series with 11 rounds.

“I regret the absence of rounds such as those in Waterloo
and Dublin, which fortunately we will see the following season,” he said.

“As for all events with new dates, they remain dependent
on the health situation in their respective host countries.”

The start of the UCI Cyclocross World Cup has now been postponed until November and Flanders Classics chief executive Tomas Van Den Spiegel said that seemed appropriate due to the fact the season would have clashed with a very congested pro road season.

Already, for example, Paris-Roubaix overlaps with both the Giro and Vuelta and would have overlapped with cyclocross, on Sunday, October 25th, had the start of the series not been postponed.