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‘It will be a day that not many will pass’ – Why an Olympic gold at Paris 2024 would be Lotte Kopecky’s biggest triumph

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 13: Gold medalist Lotte Kopecky of Belgium reacts after the Women Elite & Women U23 Road Race a 154.1km race from Loch Lomond to Glasgow at the 96th UCI Cycling World Championships Glasgow 2023, Day 11 /#UCIWWT / on August 13, 2023 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)

“Paris is only 3 years, right?” That’s how Lotte Kopecky signed off from the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 on Instagram, with a picture of herself in tears after two crashes on the track and fourth in the road race left her disappointed and without a medal at her second Games.

However, since having to pull out of the Omnium, her final event in Tokyo, injured and devastated, Kopecky has left a winning mark on almost everything she’s touched after joining the best team in women’s cycling – SD Worx-Protime. Be it the hellingen of her home Tour of Flanders, the pavé of Paris-Roubaix or the boards at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, Tokyo lit the torch for Kopecky to rise to women’s cycling’s pinnacle.

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