Former world champion Lizzie Deignan on defying family tradition, carrying the flag for women's cycling and ticking off her bucket listThe Lidl-Trek rider has amassed world, European and national titles in both track and road races across the globe since the age of 17. She’s been to three Olympics – her first on home soil in London in 2012 – and won Commonwealth gold alongside
She had inscribed her name in the history books, and proved that she could be the very best at her craft, balancing the demands of being a professional athlete alongside being a mother. “Sometimes it can be incredibly overwhelming to sacrifice everything for your sport and there are times in your career where it makes sense to do that, but in terms of longevity, my mental wellbeing and my life after sport, I don’t feel I’ll be walking off a cliff when I finish cycling.
Yet you only need to look at the list – the very small one – of female cyclists who have returned to competition after pregnancy, to recognise the challenges that remain for women reconciling the desire to have children with the desire to maintain a successful career. “This sport is unrecognisable from when I first started,” Deignan says. “It’s funny because I had so much success and so many victories, yet the race that people often recall is Paris-Roubaix. That’s because it was televised.
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