When Candice Lill lines up at the start for Sunday’s mountain bike cross-country race, she will do so in the best shape of her life.
Image: Anton Geyser / Team SA Image: Anton Geyser / Team SAlines up at the start for Sunday’s always gruelling mountain bike cross-country race, with Olympic medals at stake, she will do so knowing she is in the best shape of her life.
Lill comes into the Paris Olympics on the back of a bronze medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and also back-to-back podium finishes in women’s World Cup cross-country events, in Italy and France. “I back the 2024 Candice over the 2020 version 100 percent. I just know that I’m going a lot quicker. My love for the sport has always been there, but I think it’s just the time that it’s taken to get to where I am today. I now have the confidence, and I back myself, my current self.”
“I absolutely see my age and experience as an advantage compared to Tokyo. I just feel like I’m in a completely different place, mentally, physically due to the experience that I’ve been able to have racing overseas and competing against the best in the world fairly often. I don’t think there’s a particular age where one peaks. I think it might be different for everyone. I think in the women it might be slightly older than the men, but I have never felt as good or been in such a good space.
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