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Not sure where to post this so ill put it in here. One to watch out for next year in junior, jonty Williamson from nz. Will be first year junior, ride with him a bit at the local and holy shit kid can absolutely rip. Results over here and cwx results make a statement aswell. https://www.instagram.com/jontywilliamson_2008?igsh=aGwzdXpmZDJiN3Ay

I do remember that last year someone mentioned he'd only really gotten a bike deal from Forbidden and maybe it was just for a year to see how things were going to shake out on both sides. With all the changes coming up, maybe the Synthesis team is no more and haven't announced it yet. Maybe he'll be riding a re-branded Gasgas reg bike for Crankworx and redbull events and their E-bikes day to day? He'd be good pull for them. If Hyper can field athletes on one off bikes for what? 12-15 years now since they snagged Eric Carter...

Aren't quite a few of the main teams "family" teams or started there and grew? Commencal Muc-off, FMD racing, Atherton, Commencal Les Orres, maybe others? I think they'll all be fine. I also think Myriam, tahnee and a few other riders like Amaury who had bad concussions or injuries recently have been vocal about how it's not about "just showing up" and going fast. They want care and support from teams as well as organizations like WBD and the UCi. Not just a track and a number board. So hopefully the changes to world cup racing will allow some professionalization...

This is a great opportunity for an out-of-industry team to come together. Imagine a Fordyota / WD-40 type team with Gwin, Neko's crew and another good, but not top-15, team. Multiple frame sponsors under one organization, great media reach for adverts, and if done right could go toe-to-toe with the big teams. There's got to be quite the war raging behind the scenes right now for those #10-15 team spots. Banking on a wildcard seems risky, to say the least.

Here is my vision on the 2025 teams (be careful with riders changing teams, this will change a lot !) : Red ones are stopping or rumoured to be stopping Green ones are becoming top 15 Yellow ones would be the five wild cards Orange ones would like a spot too Blue ones will go to continental series ?

Columbia

Canberra was horrific 🤣

Somebody I know knows the management at Whiteface, so I got some info on the Lake Placid race course. Top of Lower McKenzie, though the glades, jumps off mid station, into Stag Brook, across Fox, then finishes at the bottom of the gondola.

As an event announcer myself I will say it is totally plausible that the announcer forgot in the moment it was top 3 for the overall. Even at the world cup level no one gives the announcers a script of the podiums, they just get an overall points sheet for the updated overall standings and then call the appropriate numbers of riders to that podium for each class. There are a lot of podiums at the final race, so easy for something to slip... Based on Marcus J's observation that Myriam and Nina weren't ready and the champagne bottles had...

MSA track POV with Oisin and Ronan.