A mother off the bike, Katy Marchant is embracing the role of being a mother figure to her younger British Cycling team-mates on it as the 31-year-old from Leeds prepares for her third Olympic Games.
The track sprinter is in the second phase of her career having given birth to son Arthur in the summer of 2022. She has returned to high-level international competition as hungry as ever, and now adapting to the role of spiritual leader of the track cycling team that heads to the Saint Quentin en Yvelines velodrome in France next month. That position was made even more important when two-time Olympic champion Katie Archibald broke her leg tripping over a step in her garden recently.
“It’s changed me hugely, it’s grounded me,” said Marchant, who still commutes to the British Cycling base in Manchester from her Leeds home. “But it’s meant that I have these small windows of time away from Arthur to go and ride my bike and be Katy still. “It’s really important to know that’s still okay to do, and is something that’s helped me get that little bit extra out of it.
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