Katie Archibald completes her remarkable year with a fourth medal in 4 occasions on the Track Cycling World Championships as the Olympic hero takes silver in the factors race in Roubaix
- Katie Archibald received silver in girls’s factors race in Roubaix on Sunday
- Archibald completed with 72 factors, 12 factors away from third-placed Kirsten Wild
- Belgium’s Lotte Kopecky beat Scotswoman Archibald to gold by simply 4 factors
Katie Archibald rounded off her remarkable year yesterday with a fourth medal in 4 occasions on the Track Cycling World Championships.
The Scotswoman took silver in the factors race on the ultimate day of motion at Roubaix, France, so as to add to the gold she received in the omnium and her bronzes in the crew pursuit and madison.
It capped a wonderful few weeks on the monitor for Archibald (beneath), who claimed a gold and silver on the Tokyo Olympics in August, as properly as a hat-trick of titles on the European Championships earlier this month. ‘I feel so tired, I want to go home,’ grinned the 27-year-old, who was Britain’s solely Olympic champion to compete in France, with others like Laura Kenny opting to relaxation.
Katie Archibald received silver in the ladies’s factors race on the Track Cycling World Championships
Archibald was overwhelmed to the gold by 4 factors by Belgium’s Lotte Kopecky (Centre)
‘It’s so emotionally draining wanting one thing so unhealthy. I’m actually happy. The tougher it’s, the happier you’re.’
Archibald is the primary feminine British rider to win 4 medals on the identical World Championships since Becky James in 2013. Her silver took Great Britain’s general tally in France to eight medals, their finest haul at a World Championships since 2016.
Great Britain’s head coach Jon Norfolk stated: ‘We have experienced Olympians and younger athletes in their first World championships and some of those have won medals, which is really encouraging. It fuels the enthusiasm and momentum we want to create for Paris 2024.’
A damning investigation by WADA just lately confirmed British Cycling broke anti-doping guidelines by finishing up their non-public drug testing of riders
Meanwhile, British Cycling confronted contemporary questions final evening after the Mail on Sunday revealed that one in all their main athletes rode away from a drug tester days earlier than London 2012.
The rider went on an hour-long cycle at a pre-Games coaching camp as an alternative of submitting to a check right away. The incident was described as ‘truly troubling’ by a senior anti-doping official, who stated it ought to have been logged as ‘suspicious’ by UK Anti-Doping.
UKAD stated it was ‘unable to comment on any specific activity in its testing programme’.
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