‘Whatever the colour of an Olympic medal, it’s worth gold’ – Elisa Longo Borghini hopes for more Olympic medals

Elisa Longo Borghini trained in the Paris rain one last time on Friday before representing Italy in the Olympic Games women’s individual time trial on Saturday.

The recent Giro d’Italia winner already has two bronze medals won in the road races in Rio in 2016 and Tokyo 2021 but would love another. She finished fifth in the Rio time trial and 10th on the hillier Tokyo course and will then lead the Italian team in the road race next weekend, alongside Elisa Balsamo, Silvia Persico and Elisa Cecchini.