I am glued to Olympic Games coverage and won’t come unstuck until closing ceremonies. I will be lapping up as many swim races as I can and as many track and field (athletics) events as my eyeballs will permit.
As a road cyclist and fan, I will also cheering for Alison Jackson when the women’s road race goes ahead in Paris on Aug. 4.
I used to see her cycling on Highway 619 about 10 years ago and at the local pool when she was a triathlete.
The two time Olympian who was born and raised in Vermilion is on a hot streak n 2024 after winning the second stage of the Vuelta Espana Femenina.
The Olympic race will be a familiar one for the 35 year-old as she won the 2023 Paris-Roubaix Femmes one-day race, her greatest victory to date.
She conquered the 145 kilometre course with its many cobblestone sections and took the victory in a sprint finish. She was the first North American rider – male or female – to win this classic Paris-Roubaix race and the first Canadian to win one of road cycling’s five most prestigious one-day races called monuments.
The pro cyclist is racing with the EF-Oatly-Cannondale team in the U.S. this year.
Jackson made her Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020 where she competed in the women’s road race. She’s also doing a time trial in Paris.
Two months later, she placed sixth in the women’s road race at the 2021 UCI World Championships, her career best individual result at the worlds. She had twice finished fifth in the team time trial in 2015 and 2016.
Jackson is a two-time national champion in the women’s road race, taking the title in 2021 and 2023, sandwiched around a second-place finish in 2022.
In 2021 she also won the national title in the women’s individual time trial. In 2023, Jackson was a double medallist at the Pan American Championships, taking silver in the road race and bronze in the individual time trial.
Jackson joined her first pro team, Twenty16, in 2015 and competed in three stage races and has never looked back. Go, Alison, Go!
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