02/09/2013
Rachel Atherton wins the MTB World Championship Downhill title in South Africa, 5 years on from her previous World Title win in 2008.
Rachel said “It hasn’t sunk in yet, I’m exhausted, I was wondering if I’d ever win this World Championships again but I so wanted those stripes. In the middle section the crowd were roaring and I was just saying to myself, dig, dig, dig. So I dug!”
http://athertonracing.co.uk/2013/09/02/rachel-atherton-wins-2013-world-championships/
Manon Carpenter has both strength and technical ability in spades so expectation was high but she crashed in the top section which left her 34 seconds back at split 1.