Paris 2024 Olympic Games: Katie Archibald not to take part in the Games after bizarre gardening accident | News from the UK

The 30-year-old cyclist says she has broken two bones and torn two ligaments, so Team GB will “not include” her.

Two-time Olympic champion Katie Archibald will not be able to take part in the Paris Games after suffering broken bones and ligaments in a bizarre accident.

The 30-year-old cyclist, who won gold medals in 2016 and 2020, suffered multiple injuries after tripping over a step in her garden.

On Instagram, she wrote that on Tuesday she “somehow managed” to dislocate her ankle, break her tibia and fibula, and “tear two ligaments from the bone.”

As for the British Olympic team, “I was told I would not be involved,” she said, offering “a hundred apologies.”

She was a strong contender for gold in three disciplines: Omnium, Madison and Team Pursuit.

The Scottish athlete underwent surgery on Wednesday to “reconnect the bones and reattach the ligaments”.

“A hundred thanks to the amazing doctors, nurses, radiographers, carers, physiotherapists, surgeons and more at Manchester Royal Infirmary,” she said on social media.

“I was in total princess mode (and assumed it would take a full team of emergency doctors and nurses to get Cinderella’s foot back in the right position).”

Archibald is still processing the news, she said, but wants to confirm it publicly and not “leave it to the rumor mill.”

British Cycling shared her “grief” and lamented the “cruel way in which she was denied the chance to compete for the medals she so coveted in Paris”.

The team will offer Archibald the “best possible support,” it said.

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It has been a very difficult time for Archibald, who won the gold medal in the team pursuit in Rio in 2016 and then stood alongside him at the top of the podium in the Madison. Lady Laura Kenny in Tokyo in 2020.

She missed the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham after colliding with a vehicle in the course of a series of injuries.

This summer her partner, mountain biker Rab Wardell, died as a result of cardiac arrest as he lay next to her in bed.

The Olympic Games in Paris will take place from July 26 to August 11.