When Kasia Niewiadoma lines up in the women’s elite road race for Poland at the Paris Olympic Games on August 4 it will be her third time, and the 29-year-old’s experience is showing.
The understandable sense of being stressed and overwhelmed has been tamed by the athlete who first lined up at the event in 2016 as a 21-year-old – the second youngest rider in the race next to Belgium’s Lotte Kopecky – and took an impressive sixth place despite the ‘pressure and fear’ she felt then.
