On Saturday, January 22 leaders of Visit Virginia's Blue Ridge and the Virginia Tourism Corporation announced that Team Twenty 24, a diverse team of female professional and junior cyclists will relocate their base of operations to our region. This feature highlights the strengths of our region as a welcoming, outdoor-focused community, and profiles some of the amazing women on the road to future Olympic games. In particular, we focus on the welcome of team member Rukhsar Habibzai, who was evacuated from Afghanistan last fall and now pursues her dream of becoming a professional cyclist.