
The opening round of the 2025 Whoop UCI Mountain Bike World Series in Brazil was meant to end with three-rider cross-country podiums but the riders had other ideas, going against plans to cut the numbers.
The women's elite XCO podium, after a highly-emotion debut win for New Zealand's Samara Maxwell (Decathlon Ford), ended with the new three-rider podium protocol but the men's elite podium was hijacked.