“Paris is only 3 years, right?” That’s how Lotte Kopecky signed off from the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 on Instagram, with a picture of herself in tears after two crashes on the track and fourth in the road race left her disappointed and without a medal at her second Games.
However, since having to pull out of the Omnium, her final event in Tokyo, injured and devastated, Kopecky has left a winning mark on almost everything she’s touched after joining the best team in women's cycling - SD Worx-Protime. Be it the hellingen of her home Tour of Flanders, the pavé of Paris-Roubaix or the boards at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, Tokyo lit the torch for Kopecky to rise to women’s cycling’s pinnacle.
