Hello and welcome to the Pink Bike podcast.

This week, me, I always say, I hate you saying this.

I, Henry Quinny, I've done it again.

I, Henry Quinny, me, I'm joined by Matt Beer and Alicia Leggett

to run through some of the biggest topics in News of Mountain Biking before we bumble on in our normal sort of rubbish way onto actually a really good podcast with Steve Vanderhoek, which is absolutely sick and I can't wait to share it with you.

Alicia, this podcast has got off to a terrible start.

Can you bring it back?

What's happened with the news?

Actually, I love it. I love it.

This, it feels like the right vibe for all of us, really, actually.

I've got to stop saying. Aye, Henry Quinny.

Anyway, we saw some racing recently. That was pretty cool. World Cups are in full swing right now.

So we saw some cross-country racing and some downhill racing. It was all really exciting, all really dramatic from the get-go.

Like we saw the cross-country racing start off with XCC.

So Alessandra Keller took the win for the women.

And Luca Schwartzpauer took the win for the men.

Fantastic for both of them.

Alessandra actually had a really great weekend.

She's on the podium in the XCO race as well.

And the women's XCO was won by Mona Mitter-Walner, which was very cool to see,

especially just because she's been such a rising threat all season.

And Mataya's Flukager also won for the men.

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