Hearing this statement from a rider who has experienced unfathomable suffering and loss over the past five years is enchanted.
After being struck by a car in the early summer of 2022, she suffered a back fracture and a broken collarbone before suffering two sprained ankles.
Rab Wardell, a mountain biker, died beside her that August after going into cardiac arrest while he was asleep.
You hoped that the Olympics in Paris would be the bright spot. However, a trip to a garden a few weeks prior destroyed that idea.
My foot gets dislocated due to the way I fall. Both bones are broken by the dislocation. “The ligaments are torn by the bone break,” she says.
Archibald, 30, says she is back to “about 80%” of her physical best after a grueling summer of recovery.
She returns to the boards for this week’s track cycling World Championships, which will be broadcast live on the news on Wednesday, with the sole intention of having fun, however, because her time off the bike has made her appreciate her life on it more.
