Prior to Sunday, Olympic team sprint gold medallist Katy Marchant’s last track race ended in her lying among the fans, her arm broken in two places, having crashed over the fence at London’s Lee Valley Velodrome. Now, 15 months and another child later, she’s back chasing the Olympic dream again.
Marchant returned to competition on the final day of the British Track Championships last week, where she raced in the individual sprint. The 33-year-old was ultimately knocked out in the quarterfinals, but the result mattered little; she came off the track smiling, walked to her paddock, and sat with her two sons, Arthur and Walter, the latter she gave birth to just six months before.
