Olympic cyclist to miss 2024 Paris Games after bizarre garden accident – ​​Boston 25 News

British cyclist Katie Archibald will miss the Paris Olympics after tripping on a set of garden steps, breaking her leg, dislocating her ankle and tearing ligaments, The Guardian reports.

Archibald, 30, won two gold medals and one silver medal at the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games.

The cyclist told her followers about her accident on Instagram on Thursday.

“I tripped over a step in the garden and somehow dislocated my ankle, broke my tibia and fibula and tore two ligaments from my bone. What the heck,” Archibald wrote.

She confirmed that she had undergone surgery on Wednesday “to put the bones back together and reattach the ligaments.”

“One hundred apologies for the impact this has on the Olympic team, which I have been told I will not be a part of,” she wrote.

“I’m still processing this news, but I thought I should confirm it publicly rather than leaving it to the rumor mill (trip hazard and all),” she added.

British Cycling issued a statement confirming that Archibald would not compete next month, CNN reported.

“We share Katie’s grief over her injury and the cruel way in which she has been denied the chance to compete for the medals she so craved in Paris,” British Cycling said in a statement.

© 2024 Cox Media Group