She’s before my time, but I’ve read a bit about her – fascinating story, I think people will obviously compare her to Palmer, but I don’ think she had that level of god given talent.
I’m not sure the rules on WC entries, I spoke with Neil Donoghue a couple of years ago, this was after BikeRadar Team had folded and before he started racing Enduro so I don’t think he was racing at all then, I mentioned I’d put him in my Dirt Fantasy DH league (he was very cheap) as they announced he was going to race certain WCs as a Privateer – he laughed about saying something like that once, but he certainly wasn’t racing because no matter how good you are, or were you can’t just rock up at a WC and slap your name down, you need some National Level UCI points amongst other things.
Something similar was said about Palmer a couple of years back, maybe 2011 or something that he was going to race certain WCs, but I don’t think he ever did.