Four out of six gold medals for the #Netherlands at the #cyclocross #Eurochamps in #Silvelle, Italy, and another two Bronze medals. Belgium and France with one gold medal each. The medal table of a championship often is pretty telling... #Oranjeboven #cycling

One nice detail of the #UEC #cyclocross #EuroChamps in #Silvelle, Italy was the added diversity within the freshly crowned winners: the men's under23 race was won by Frenchman Mickael Crispin, and the women's under23 race was won by Dutch rider Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado. Honestly great to see #cycling become less white and more diverse.

As for the course in #Silvelle: That really was lame, no elevation changes, hardly any challenging off-cambers and a sandbox that almost all riders could master. Hard to make a difference on such a course in #cyclocross, so this gave Belgium an even bigger advantage to profit from their power in numbers. They certainly tried, but van der Poel had too much class to succumb to them. #EuroChamps

That was a hard piece of work: Mathieu van der Poel was constantly outnumbered by the Belgian armada, but he kept his cool and beat Eli Iserbyt on the final lap to win the #UEC elite men's #cyclocross #EuroChamps by a scant 3secs. Laurens Sweeck in 3rd, Michael Vanthourenhout in 4th and Lars van der Haar in 5th, so the entire top5 is made up by Dutch and Belgian riders. Business as usual "in het veld" with Pidcock in 8th and Orts in 9th for some international flavour.

#slowclap for the production crew at the #UEC #cyclocross #EuroChamps in #Silvelle: Showing replays, they missed the decisive moment and attack from van der Poel. Que vergogna!

The speed has come down in the men's elite #cyclocross #EuroChamps, and a group of Belgian riders is catching up with the lead trio of van der Poel, Vanthourenhout and Iserbyt. That's not good for the Dutch favourite: Too many riders to keep in check and block his lines, better attack hard! One and a half laps to go in #Silvelle.

6mins into the elite men's #cyclocross #EuroChamps, Ely Iserbyt tries to get into van der Poel's way, provoking the Dutch favourite to place a scorching acceleration. He's having none of it when the Belgians try to tag team him. Three riders up front now with van der Poel, Iserbyt and Quinten Hermans. #Silvelle

Only a couple of minutes to go until the elite men start their #EuroChamps #cyclocross race in #Silvelle, Italy. Can Belgium find a strategy to keep Mathieu van der Poel from scoring a hat trick and winning his third consecutive EuroChamps title? Expect a full-on battle between the Dutch and the Belgians!

After a distance of only 11.7kms, Yara Kastelijns crosses the finish line in #Silvelle as the new elite women's #cyclocross #EuroChamps winner in a time of 41min05. Lechner gets silver at 12secs, Worst the bronze at 26secs, Maud Kaptheijns grabs 4th at 1:09. Verdonschot 5th, Cant 6th and Arzuffi in 7th.

As Yara Kastelijns heads into the final lap of the women's elite #cyclocross #EuroChamps in #Silvelle, Eva Lechner has closed the gap to 22secs. Annemarie Worst is another six seconds back in 3rd while Sanne Cant has dropped Verdonschot and Arzuffi in the fight for 4th. #cyclocross

After the 2nd of 4 laps at the women's elite #cyclocross #Eurochamps, Yara Kastelijns/NED has extended her lead to 32secs. Battling for 2nd are Annemarie Worst and Eva Lechner. Sanne Cant currently in 5th at 57secs. #Silvelle

3mins in the elite women's #cyclocross #Eurochamps, Yara Kastelijn and Annemarie Worst go past Van Loy while Sanne Cant is a bit too far back to react. Eva Lechner moves into 2nd now, chasing Kastelijn. #Silvelle

Wow, speaking of an utterly disappointing attendance: the UEC women's elite #cyclocross race at the #EuroChamps in #Silvelle will be contested by less than 30 riders.