
Rebecca Henderson had a big target drawn around the opening round of the UCI Whoop Mountain Bike World Series this year given the Australian’s fortunes had looked to be turning near the end of last season as the rider – who in 2022 touched the top of the world rankings – secured her first World Cup top five in the cross-country Olympic race in well over a year at Lake Placid.
The season was soon ending but the flame had been stoked for the rider as she looked ahead to 2025, when she would shift to the Orbea Fox Factory Team after her Primaflor Mondraker squad of seven years closed.