Cyclist’s Games setback
AN Olympic champ has told how dreams of another cycling gold were almost wrecked by a hit-and-run motorist.
Elinor Barker, 26, was training in Manchester when a car pulled out at a roundabout. It hit her but failed to stop. She told police but the driver could not be traced.
The Cardiff-born star, who won team pursuit gold at Rio in 2016, said: “It happened really quickly. Unfortunately it is part of being on the road.”
She missed five days’ training and added that it “affected me, but you have to get back into it”.
Elinor says she could have missed the Tokyo Olympics, which starts on July 23, after five hard years of sacrifice.