The WMX World Championship should be the ultimate competition for all the best female riders in the world — after all, it crowns the best female rider globally. Yet the reality is very different. Many American riders prefer to stay in the United States. Some riders in the World Championship paddock are starting to speak openly about the system’s limits.

The two biggest men’s championships — the MXGP World Championship and the AMA Pro Motocross in the U.S. — dominate the scene. Other national championships are developing, but the battle for top riders is fierce between the two. For female riders, we are heading in the same direction, but I firmly believe women’s motocross should not simply replicate the men’s model. It is different — and it deserves a different approach.