I found Jahn Ekman's wonderful CX pictures on Facebook and as you can see from above, even I made it onto the memory card. This is from Lidköping and the first sand section which was deep but only a few metres. You could hit this section with good speed and then just hold on and hope for the best. That explains my look of terror. =) Many of us fell in the sand parts as you have seen/heard.

Only moments later my bike fell apart. But it looks damn fine here!