Jingle Cross Weekend Canceled for 2022

The long-running race scheduled for October 14-16 will not be held this year

We’ve seen the news slowly breaking across social media during the past few weeks, so we figured we’d do a formal post to let folks know—2022 Jingle Cross weekend has been canceled.

Race director John Meehan made an official post at the BikeIowa website announcing the race scheduled for three days of racing from October 14 through 16 will not be held this year.

Jingle Cross has been run at the Johnson County Fairgrounds for nearly two decades now and has hosted five World Cups starting in 2016. The race had planned to drop down to a C1/C2 weekend in 2022 after its impressive run of five World Cups. The race was also slated to be part of the four-even USCX series entering its second year this fall.

Meehan’s post shed some light on the cancellation:

As per the usual routine, all US promoters got together with USA Cycling and collaborated to create the US calendar. Jingle Cross was given the weekend of October 14-16 for a C1-C2-C2 weekend over 3 days. No other UCI events were on that weekend in North America at that time. A few weeks later, and more than 2 months past the typical world cup deadline, the UCI awarded a nearby UCI World Cup on the same weekend. No advance notice was given. Initially, both events were on the UCI calendar. Jingle Cross disappeared from the UCI’s calendar a few days later without notice. Attempts to reschedule were unsuccessful. In summary, we regret to inform you Jingle Cross is cancelled.

While the Jingle Cross cyclocross race is not happening in 2022, the event is scheduled to host the Jingle GX gravel race the weekend of August 5-7 that will be part of the new UCI Gravel World Series.

A lot of questions about the Jingle Cross cancellation still remain. What is the future of the event? How will it affect the USCX series? Will someone be squatting in the Grinch’s Lair this fall?

We are hoping to have more about the race cancellation and the 2022 USCX series in the coming weeks.