Katie Archibald to miss Olympics after freak garden accident

Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Two-time Olympic champion cyclist Katie Archibald will miss Paris 2024 after suffering a double leg break in a freak garden accident. I’m still processing that bit of news, but thought I better confirm it publicly instead of leaving it to the grapevine.” The Paris Olympics take place between 26 July and 11 August but now won’t involve Archibald, who won team pursuit gold at Rio 2016 and then topped the podium in the madison alongside Laura Kenny at Tokyo 2020. The likeable Brit has endured a tough couple of years since Tokyo, missing the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham after colliding with a vehicle amid a series of injury setbacks, while later that summer, her partner – 37-year-old mountain biker Rab Wardell – died suddenly in bed beside her. Wardell suffered a cardiac arrest in his sleep just two days after taking victory at the Scottish MTB XC Championships and Archibald revealed how she “tried and tried” to resuscitate him “I think you’ve heard that Rab died yesterday morning,” she tweeted at the time.