Benedikt Benz is the first German U19 rider to win a UCI World Cup race. UCI World Cup race. At the U19 Junior race as part of the UCI World Cup in Dendermonde, Belgium, at the beginning of January, Benedikt was able to ride to the top of the podium. The reigning German champion now took the momentum and the good feeling with him to leave the assembled junior world elite behind him in Hoogerheide.

The period around Christmas and New Year is peak season in international cyclocross sport, with eleven races within 16 days in the Netherlands and Belgium alone.

The track in Merksplas, Belgium, showed its fast side, so that there was initially a large leading group that was close together.

The team had already extended Laurens' contract before the start of the new season, giving both Laurens and the team a lot of confidence. ‘When I joined the team two years ago, it immediately led to an overall victory in the World Cup.

In the Elite Men's race, U23 rider Joran Wyseure (Crelan-Corendon) rode to a magnificent third place in the highly competitive Elite Men's race.

For the 2023/24 season, the team around Annemarie Worst (World Championship elite runner-up in 2019 and 2020, European champion in 2018) will have another change in addition to the name change. For the first time since the team was founded, the all-women squad will become a mixed team.