Lotte Kopecky names Paris-Roubaix and Olympics as main 2024 targets
Proximity of Olympic tra🎃ck and Tour de France dates means ‘compromise needed’

Belgian superstar 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lotte Kopecky has unveiled the broad brush strokes of her upcoming 2024 campaign, with an Olymౠpic track medal and a ♔crack at Paris-Roubaix two key aims.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Roubaix was one of the few races that eluded Kopecky in 2023. The SD Worx rider finished seventh where the combinatio𓃲n of a large early break staying away and a bad crash badly limited her options of going for the victory.
However, after a year in which the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI Road World Championships, second overall in the Tour de France after an opening stage victory and a prolonged spell in the lead, not to mention another win in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour of Flanders were just three of the big highlights, Kopecky’s season can only be described asಌ stunningly succe💞ssful.
As for 2024, apart from Roubaix, Kopecky told that she is also keen to make her mark in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris OIympics, with the Omnium❀ in her sights for her track debut in the Games.
"Of course it is in my mind to win the Games, but I know how difficult it is to win even a normal race," she said. "I dream of a medal. I really hope my training goes as well as possible [because] if it goᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚes perfectly, you will normally be in your best shape at the Games."
“After that, t𝄹hings 🅷are not so easy to control, it all depends on the race.”
Kopecky said that when planning her season, it had not escaped her notice that while the Olympic road race is more than a week distant from the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France Femmes start, the Omnium and the Grand Départ were only separated by 24 hours.
But she made it very clear th♛at her track goals were not going to be sacrificed as a resuꦚlt.
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"I was busy making some plans last week and I noticed that too," she told .
"I don't know how to do that. We will soon find out with the team and the f🐻ederation and we will have to find a compromise. Not doing the Olymp🍸ic omnium will not be an option."
On top of h💧er summer goals, the 27-year-old said that the Spring Classics were not going to disappear from her aims, with a win in Paris-Roubaix "high on the wish list."
And while arguing that in ter𒆙ms of her age and experience, she is currently at the top of her g🗹ame, Kopecky also recognised that improving as a racer was a process that never really stopped.
“It is also often about the mental side. That is sometimes, especially for me, slightly more important than purely the physical side,&rdquo🦩; she said.
“I may have to make some decisions about which path I 🤡want to take. But at the moment, I don't want to change anything right now."
Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The Independent, The Guardian, ProCycling, The Express and Reuters.