Swiss Cycling and the Roland Arena are intensifying their collaboration. The Graubünden training base is being established in Lenzerheide - including a bikecontrol hub. This closes a gap in the regionalization of talent acquisition and support.

Multiple German Enduro champion Raphaela Richter returns to racing after taking time out for training and immediately presents a new suspension fork sponsor, Intend Suspension.

Formidable start to the season for the Swiss mountain bike elite: Jolanda Neff and Lars Forster won the first race of the Internazionali d'Italia Series in Andora in front of a well-staffed field. Behind Neff were Mona Mitterwallner (AUT), Anne Tersptra (NED) and Sina Frei in fourth place. Forster was joined on the podium by Victor Koretzky (FRA) and Milan Vader (NED). Thomas Litscher finished sixth and world champion Jordan Sarrou came in eighth.

Six-time world champion and six-time overall DH World Cup winner Rachel Atherton has announced on Instagram that she and her boyfriend Olly Davey are expecting a child. She also revealed that she already misses sending big jumps. As she found out herself, there are not many mothers in the downhill circus, which is why she can hardly draw on the experiences of other pregnant gravity bikers. In a detailed interview on Pinkbike, she talks about how she is now on the bike.