The Ethias Cross series returns on Saturday for its fifth round. The race will be held in Essen, Belgium, just a stone’s throw from the Netherland border. 

Cycling teams have demanded an increase in out of competition blood tests, insisting Wednesday that they fear the "existence of mafia doping protocols outside of the teams' structures".   

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The third round of the 2019 - 2020 DVV series was a unique scene for a Belgian cyclocross race. Instead of sprawling rutted fields in the wintery countryside, riders raced in the shadows of high rise apartment buildings, across bridges and past bars and restaurants. Urban Cross is a brand new race that the DVV series unveiled along the Leie River in Kortrijk, Belgium. 

Marianne Vos, the seven time world cyclocross champion recently announced her 2019 - 2020 cyclocross program. Vos will debut at the Ethias Cross Essen on December 7th which will be streamed live and on demand on FloBikes. 

The third round of the DVV Verzekeringen Trofee airs Saturday on FloBikes from Kortrijk Belgium, followed by coverage of the Tissot UCI Track World Cup in Hong Kong on Sunday. Download the FloSports app to watch on Roku, Apple TV 4 or your preferred IOS or Andrioid device.

On Saturday November 30th the DVV series will take to a brand new course in Kortrijk for its third installment of the 2019 - 2020 season. Eli Iserbyt has a comfortable lead of 1 minute and 54 seconds ahead of Michael Vanthourenhout in the time based series. 

Maghalie Rochette is having the season of her life, reclaiming her Canadian National Championship and Pan-American Championship titles on the heels of a World Cup win in Iowa earlier this season, followed by a fifth place in the Waterloo World Cup. And when it comes to domestic UCI races this year, she’s only lost one race — day two of FayetteCross. In the UCI rankings, she’s sitting top five, and in the World Cup standings, she’s currently second.