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The CrosscastThe Crosscast S8E13 World Champs review and 25-26 season previewIn Episode 13 of season 8 Neil, Matt and Xan review the Lievin World Champs with its magnificent team relay that was exciting even with just the live timing. They cover all the races and The Crosscast Podium Picker competition in which Xan proved her expertise unlike Matt and Neil who didn’t have a great year! Was the course exciting, dull, challenging, or just confusing? What do you think?In the Laatste Ronde they look forward to a much changed National Trophy calendar and a very unchanged World Cup. Neil predicts a change in regs...2025-02-131h 33
The CrosscastThe Crosscast S8E12 World Champs Preview ¦ World Cup FinaleIn Episode 12 of Season 8, Neil, Matt and Xan unpack a pair of tough races that rounded out the World Cup. Xan gives her on-the-ground review of just how tough they were, at the technical-tastic Maasmechelen and total classic of Hoogerheide. They give thoughts on the World Cup as whole and whether the compressed calendar worked.The most important competition of the year is on us all! Yes it is YOUR chance to compete in the annual Crosscast Podium Picker Competition at tinyurl.com/podium25 The Crosscast Trio give their podium picks for the upco...2025-01-301h 26
The CrosscastThe Crosscast S8E10 National Champs LIVE with new elite champ Xan CreesCROSSCAST LIVE from Cyclopark Gravesend. Live from the cafe, Neil Matt and Xan talk through the action from the National Champs. The big news is that Xan did it - she is National Elite Cyclocross Champion! Awesome.Support the show--To support the show pop over to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/crosscast to make a donation towards our hosting fees - every little helps! Follow us on Insta and Facebook, and share to your networks! Neil Mansfield @crosscastneil is part of Grity Sustainable Sports Apparel @gritykit, an...2025-01-1341 min
The CrosscastThe Crosscast S8E09 National Champs Cyclopark preview and another National Trophy Weather VictimIn Episode 9 of Season 8, Neil Matt and Xan look back on the end of the 2024-2025 Kerste Periode remembering an entertaining Baal with Van Empel only leading the race for about 1 metre (the most important 1 metre), and Iserbyt at his best. Koksijde added Sweeck to the list of legends, and Dendermonde was somehow a great watch despite some dominant rides and its usually ultra mud bath course. The talk about Xans' peak in form with best ever result in a Belgian World Cup coming just before the National Champs.The final round of the National Tr...2025-01-091h 32
The CrosscastThe Crosscast S8E05 Torbay Thrills and World Cup previewIn Episode 5 of Season 8 Neil and Matt (and TheGrityKitty) catch up on Round 3 of the National Trophy that came from Torbay and delivered an unexpected fast and dry(ish) course with technical flow. They talk through the tactical racing and even dip into a few stats comparing this year to last year. Neil corrects an error from last show and educates himself on Pearson Bikes and DAS. They reflect on the grim course from Niel, and talk about how individual features like ‘the Hamme bank’ can affect racing. After a slight interval to put the cat out...2024-11-211h 26
The CrosscastThe Crosscast S8E04 South Shields and Koppenburg, and looking forward to TorbayIn Episode 4 of season 8 Neil Matt and Xan look back on the past few weeks of racing. This included Xan’s ongoing adventures in Sweden as well as her return to the Koppenburg. Matt is back from the 2024 UCI Cycling Esports World Championships, and whilst the tech remained bug free… he got infected by a virus and so a little croaky today 🦠.They look back on the south Shields National trophy where both Neil and Xan were racing. The course was fast, but remained a challenge. It should be a worthy venue for the 2026 National Championships. They a...2024-11-061h 07
The CrosscastThe Crosscast S8E03 Xan in Sweden, Neil at the Peaks, all at Derby and what to expect at South ShieldsIn Epidode 3 of Season 8 Neil, Matt and Xan look back on One National Trophy, Two races in Sweden, and Three Peaks.They remember 2017’s Season 1 Episode 2 of The Crosscast when they mentioned Zoe Roche and Finlay Goodman who were U10s. Class shows… Zoe just won Juniors at the Derby National Trophy and Finlay just won the Junior World X-Terra title. Awesome. In Crosstalk, Neil re-lives a memorable 3 Peaks, that certainly went to plan… but maybe the plan wasn’t perfect? They talk through h...2024-10-151h 21
The CrosscastThe Crosscast S8E01 It's Crossmass!In Episode 1 of Season 8, Neil and Matt look forward to the 2024-25 Cyclocross Season. It is a very strange one in terms of calendar that will come in a series of distinct chapters September is all about Yorkshire. We kick off with the Hope Supercross series of 4 UCI C2 races in the UK in a short block - a must for anyone chasing the UCI points. Then there is the diversion westwards for the Three Peaks which Neil is returning to… listen to Episodes 2 and 3 for his plans and whether they worked!The National Trophy is fai...2024-09-081h 04
The CrosscastThe Crosscast S7E12 - 24 World Champs review with Ian FieldIn Episode 12 of Season 7, Neil Mansfield and Matt Payne are joined by Ian Field to review the 2024 World Championships that came from Tabor, Czechia. The weekend started with a compelling team relay where strategy was key, and where GB were just pipped to the line by France. Surely this race needs to be covered in full with dedicated graphics to make it more accessible to the less obsessive CX fans out there?They talk through how day 1 saw Gery take her second jersey of the weekend and how the race with Ferguson could have unfolded differently in a...2024-02-071h 25The CrosscastThe Crosscast S7E11 - Pre-worlds prediction with Ian FieldIn Episode 11 of Season 7, Neil and Matt are joined by cyclocross talent, coach extraordinaire, and commentator on Discovery+, Ian Field. They review the 14th round of the World Cup that came from Hoogerheide and query whose form is peaking when... some were at the end of a training block to prepare for the World Championships, and others seem to be coming along just nicely potentially challenging for a jersey next weekend.They discuss whether Belgian Cyclocross is going through a rough patch with few of the podium places at the race or series going back to the c...2024-01-301h 40The CrosscastThe Crosscast S7E08 - Magnus Bäckstedt Kerste special and an Exclusive!In Episode 8 of Season 7, Neil and Matt are joined in the studio by cycling icon, Canyon SRAM sports director, and expert pit crew Magnus Bäckstedt. They review the first half of the kersteperiod that has featured fully loaded A-Z of start lists (Alvarado to Zoe Bäckstedt) a featuring World Cups with the sand of Antwerp and the mud of Gavere. They talk through a great edition of Zolder with Van Aert clocking up a hat trick of consecutive Zolder wins, and the annual excitement of Diegem.The incident involving Matthieu Van Der Poel and...2023-12-291h 42The CrosscastThe Crosscast S7E01 - New season and a new Champs JerseyThe Crosscast is back! In Episode 1 of season 7, Neil and Matt are joined in the studio, by freshly crowned National Elite gravel champion Xan Crees. They get the inside story of Xan's win for Spectra Cannondale over at the Kings Cup National Championships.Before the cyclo-cross purists get too jittery, they quickly refocus on the early cyclocross season, reflecting on the Hope Supercross series, the three UCI C2 races, promoted in partnership with CX North East, North West Cyclocross Association, and Yorkshire Cyclocross League. It was certainly a good stretch of the legs early season, and a...2023-09-281h 11The CrosscastThe Crosscast S6E15 - End of season review... and what's coming next yearIn Episode 15 of Season 6, Neil and Matt look back on the season as a whole and reflect on the final standings in the X2O and Superprestige series. In a season that was affected by injury and incident, but kept fresh by having close racing at the front week in, week out, they decide on their own riders of the year for UK female (with shortlist including Baker, Backstedt, Crees, Strathdee, Weijack, Day), and UK male (with shortlist including Barnes, Akers, Mason, Pidcock)... and then World female (with shortlist including Holmgren(s), Van Anrooij, Pieterse, Van Empel) a...2023-03-091h 37The CrosscastThe Crosscast S6E14 - World Champs review with Ian FieldIn Episode 14 of Season 6, Neil and Matt are joined by Ian Field to review the 2023 World Championships that came from Hoogerheide. Matt, just back from UCI / BBC commentary duties, Ian, just back from GCN / Eurosport commentary duties, and Neil, just back from sofa duties, reflect on a weekend that started with a GB Silver in the relay, and built to what will inevitably become an iconic sprint finish in the elite men's competition, between Van Aert and Van der Poel.After a Canadian 1-2 in the women's juniors and compared to what we have become accustomed to...2023-02-091h 32