GLASGOW : It has been a while since American rider Chloe Dygert powered around a velodrome to a gold medal with her rivals seemingly pedalling through treacle far behind.But nearly three years after suffering an horrific career-threatening leg injury at the world road championships time trial in Italy, th
GLASGOW : It has been a while since American rider Chloe Dygert powered around a velodrome to a gold medal with her rivals seemingly pedalling through treacle far behind.
So dominant was she around the polished boards of the Chris Hoy Velodrome that she caught her opponent in the final lap of the 3km event in which riders start on opposite sides of the 250m oval and victories are usually measured in bike lengths.Dygert's time of 3 minutes 17.5 seconds earned her an 11th world title but her first since winning individual and team pursuit golds at the Berlin World Track Championships in 2020.
"After 2020 and Tokyo, I worked with the medical team and staff at USA Cycling and Canyon/SRAM to get me to the point where my body could compete again.When she left the Berlin worlds in 2020 it seemed she was set for domination at the Tokyo Olympics. Dygert, whose marriage to cyclist Logan Owen ended in divorce in 2020, has had three surgeries on her leg. The first straight after the crash that left doctors describing her injury as looking like a wound from a war zone, then two more to repair the scar that resembled a shark bite.
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