Courtney Duncan\u2019s quest to revive her motocross career has hit another speed bump.<\/p>\n
The four-time world champion last month revealed to the\u00a0Otago Daily Times\u00a0she did not have a seat in this year\u2019s Women\u2019s Motocross Championship.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old missed the entire 2025 WMX season due to a heart condition, but is determined to get back on the circuit.<\/p>\n
She was supposed to make her competitive return at the Oceania Women\u2019s Motocross Cup in Australia this weekend.<\/p>\n
She was selected for the New Zealand team but fractured some ribs in a heavy fall while training in Waikato over the past week, and has been forced to withdraw from the competition.<\/p>\n
“I was really looking forward to competing at this event \u2014 it\u2019s always an honour to represent the fern, especially alongside this team of women,\u2019\u2019 Duncan told the\u00a0Waikato Herald.<\/p>\n
“Team events are quite different from my normal racing schedule, and so I was excited and well-prepared for this one. I wish the team every success there in Wonthaggi.”<\/p>\n
Duncan had hoped the event would serve as a springboard for her to mount a comeback.<\/p>\n
She was keen on reminding everybody just how fast she can ride.<\/p>\n
The Kawasaki rider, who hails from the small town of Palmerston, got the bad news she had lost her seat in the WMX just before Christmas.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018Yeah, tough start to the new year, but I\u2019m just trying to make it happen,\u2019\u2019 she said at the time.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018I haven\u2019t even thought about whether I would not be racing.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Milla Dahlenburg (Nelson) will take Duncan\u2019s spot and join Amie Roberts (Hamilton), Karaitiana Horne (Raetihi) and Mikayla Griffiths (Taup\u014d).<\/p>\n
The event includes teams from Asia, the United States and Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtney Duncan\u2019s quest to revive her motocross career has hit another speed bump. The four-time world champion last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-340039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}