Rachel Atherton confirms she will defend her UCI World Cup Downhill leader's jersey in Leogang after taking the top step in Lenzerheide
In one of the greatest returns to racing in the history of our sport, Rachel Atherton took the win at the first round of the 2023 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Downhill in Lenzerheide last weekend. The British rider’s 40th World Cup Win comes after an extended break from competition.
Rachel won the top sector by over a second, gradually losing time over the course of the track to 2nd place Cammy Balanche. Overall, she did enough to secure the win by 0.534 seconds.
Other pros come up and we ride together – I ride loads with Brendan Fairclough when he comes up, Bernard Kerr has just moved to our local town to shred more, Peaty and Laurie, Jordan Williams, even Nina.
I 100% wasn’t trying to win, I just kept telling myself to be strong, breathe deeply, and be f***ing safe!With the new schedule it’s a lot harder physically doing two race runs back to back in one day. It’s savage on the body, so I was nervous as hell. But, it did give me more confidence that I must be riding my bike well and I must actually be stronger than I think I am!
My run was awesome, my practice runs we’re really good so I knew I could do the same again, even though I felt really flat at the top before my run. Because we’d already raced semi finals, it was hard to get fired up to race again, and I was worried that I felt tired, but I looked over at Vali in the start gate and I thought “we will all feel the same, we’ll all be tired” so that helped!
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