The 30-year-old cyclist said she broke two bones and tore two ligaments so Team GB “won’t involve me”.
Thursday 20 June 2024 16:34, UK
Double Olympic champion Katie Archibald has been ruled out of the Paris Games after breaking bones and ligaments in an accident.
In the year The 30-year-old cyclist, who won gold medals in 2016 and 2020, suffered multiple injuries after falling on a step in her garden.
She “somehow” sprained her ankle, broke her tibia and fibula and “torn two ligaments off the bone,” she wrote on Instagram.
As for the Great Britain Olympic team, he said: “I was told. [it] “It doesn’t include me,” she said, “I’m sorry.”
She was a strong contender for gold in three disciplines: Omnium, Madison and Team Pursuit.
The Scottish athlete underwent surgery on Wednesday “to reattach the bones and reattach the ligaments”.
A hundred thanks to the wonderful doctors, nurses, radiographers, porters, physios, surgeons and others at Manchester Royal Infirmary.
“I was in full princess mode (thinking it took a whole team of A&E doctors and nurses to put Cinderella’s foot back together with the slipper).”
Archibald said she was “still processing” the news, but wanted to confirm it publicly rather than “leave it to the grapevine.”
British Cycling said she had “shared her heartbreak” and lamented the “brutal way she was denied the chance to ride for the medals she so coveted in Paris”.
He added that the team would give Archibald “all possible support”.
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In the year In 2016, it was a tough time for Archibald, who beat the team in pursuit of gold in Rio and then finished side-by-side in Madison. Dame Laura Kenny in Tokyo in 2020.
She missed out on the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham due to a collision with a vehicle.
That summer, her partner, mountain biker Rob Wardell, He died after suffering a heart attack As he lay on the bed next to her.
The Paris Olympics will be held from July 26 to August 11.