Chloe Dygert will represent the United States at the 2024 Paris Olympics as time trial world champion.

The months since winning her second rainbow jersey in a race against time in Glasgow had not been the smooth start to the Olympics that she had hoped for.

“The original plan was to have a team camp in December, go to Australia for the Tour Down Under, compete in the spring classics in perfect shape, fight hard early in the season, and rest up before the Olympics. But it didn't work out as planned; I hurt my Achilles tendon in December and pushed myself too hard to get back into the spring races.”

“After Flanders, the trauma of two crashes during the race, the worsening of my Achilles tendon injury on the climbs, and with the Olympics right around the corner, I decided to take a break and fully recover in order to prepare for the Olympics.

As a result, the 2024 season will see only three days of racing on the road for the athletes seeking their third Olympic berth, and concerns about their readiness have crept in.

“I was off the bike for three weeks and when I got back on the bike it was 13 weeks before the ITT for the competition. I remember thinking, 'I can't do this anymore, I don't have time.' But the team and my coaches, Christine and Gary (Sutton), told me I could do it as long as I didn't have any more setbacks."

But then another showed up.

“In the middle of my preparation, I was at a track camp with the USA team in Zolder, Belgium, and then I got cobbled together. I'm going to do a time trial, a road race, and a team pursuit on the track,” said Dygert, who plans to compete in the time trial, the road race, and the team pursuit on the track.

But despite setbacks along the way, her cumulative efforts paid off. She said, “After returning to the U.S., taking a few days off to relax, restart, and prepare for the high altitude, I started running times I'd never run before and power numbers I hadn't seen in a long time.

“There were times when I thought I was done. But I came to Boise for some final preparations, and I feel good.”

The athlete, who has already won a silver and a bronze medal (both in women's team pursuit) at the Olympics, said the experience of the quadrennial competition has changed for her since Rio 2016.

Nevertheless, Daigert said, “You can't put the competition on a pedestal, otherwise you can't perform. I see Paris as a race like the National Championships or the World Championships.” The race begins with an individual time trial on July 27, with triathlete and U.S. champion Taylor Knibb alongside her. Then on August 4, Dygert will join Kristen Faulkner in the road race, followed by the team pursuit on the track on August 6 and 7. 'For me, it's important that the ITT is my first event,' she said. I will race on the 27th and will be fully focused on the 27th for a 40-minute effort,” Dygert said. I've seen the footage of the ITT course; I've seen the footage of the ITT course; I've seen the footage of the ITT course.” We won't know what road furniture has been removed or what roads have been paved until we get closer to the day of the race. It's a power course. 'After the 27th, the ITT will be off and I'll be out of the village spending time with the team preparing and doing sessions on the road course. Hopefully the road race will be hard enough that we lose a few sprinters.”