{"id":4808,"date":"2024-09-19T18:03:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T18:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/paris-2024-paralympics-sarah-storey-wins-18th-gold-on-appalling-course\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T18:03:27","slug":"paris-2024-paralympics-sarah-storey-wins-18th-gold-on-appalling-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/paris-2024-paralympics-sarah-storey-wins-18th-gold-on-appalling-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris 2024 Paralympics: Sarah Storey wins 18th gold on &#8216;appalling&#8217; course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While Storey was unhappy with the course Brown was lucky to be on it at all, as she revealed in an Instagram post after winning silver on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Nothing quite like being knocked off your bike and dislocating your shoulder three days before the most important race of your life to enhance the preparation,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I had zero more to give today but thanks to the whole British Cycling team who made it possible to race my heart out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Once I\u2019ve got over the sleep deprivation I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll feel even more amazing but for now it feels like some crazy dream to get a medal of any kind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is the second British cyclist to medal at these Games days after being injured while riding, after Jaco van Gass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/cewlzzw2d9wo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">revealed he was hit by a car and knocked from his bike<\/a> in Paris shortly before winning track gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On a packed day for the British cycling team, Matthew Robertson came fifth in the men&#8217;s C2 event, while Daphne Schrager finished fifth behind Brown in the women&#8217;s C1-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A day that started with medals for GB ended well too, as Unwin and Fachie both got on the podium &#8211; albeit having finished more than a minute behind Ireland&#8217;s Katie-George Dunlevy who dominated on her way to gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fachie, who celebrated her 36th birthday on Wednesday as well as her sixth Paralympic medal, added to the bronze she won on the track in Paris in the individual pursuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;It&#8217;s great to get a second medal of the Games, we left it all out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pilot Hall added: &#8220;It&#8217;s definitely been a good day for the women of the team, so bring on the road races in a couple of days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was disappointment for Tokyo Paralympic champion Benjamin Watson in the men&#8217;s C3 as he could only come fourth in Paris, finishing 54.1 seconds behind the gold medallist, France&#8217;s Thomas Peyroton-Dartet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Watson finished ahead of team-mates Fin Graham in sixth and van Gass, who took eighth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t go any harder, but I&#8217;m gutted,&#8221; Watson said. &#8220;I went out hard, then parked a bit in the second lap, while the French guy [Peyroton-Dartet] just accelerated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two-time Rio 2016 gold medallist Stephen Bate, who won silver on the track earlier in these Games, came fifth in the men&#8217;s B time trial, as the 47-year-old competes in what may be his final Paralympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Archie Atkinson, who missed out on track gold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/c4gd5w1qn22o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">following a last-lap crash,<\/a> continued the trend of fifth-place British finishes, in the men&#8217;s C4, while team-mate Blaine Hunt came 11th in the men&#8217;s C5.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/cj4xgyze8pyo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Storey was unhappy with the course Brown was lucky to be on it at all, as she revealed in an Instagram post after winning silver on Wednesday. &#8220;Nothing quite like being knocked off your bike and dislocating your shoulder three days before the most important race of your life to enhance the preparation,&#8221; 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