Laurie Greenland (Santa Cruz Syndicate) has spoken openly about the health issues which effected his race weekends during the 2023 UCI Downhill World Cup season. In a video released by the team Greenland, 27, talks candidly about his struggles with a stomach parasite and Epstein Barr virus.  

The UK’s best results last time out came at the Lenzerheide series opener where he scored a fourth place and in Loudenvielle-Peyragudes where he finished third. The Bristolian often cut a despondent figure in the pits with his one, and so far only, win coming in Val di Sole Trentino back in 2019.  

Greenland signed with the Santa Cruz Syndicate in 2022 and is widely regarded as one of the world’s most technically gifted athletes. After an off-season spent recuperating, surfing and hitting the road with the team he could well be back to his spellbinding best come the opening round of the UCI Downhill World Cup in Fort William, Scotland 03-05 May. Tickets are on sale now.