I am fixated on Olympic Games coverage and will not give up until the closing ceremonies. I will be watching as many swimming races and track and field events as my pupils will allow.

As a road cyclist and fan, I will be supporting Alison Jackson when the women’s road race takes place in Paris on August 4th.

About 10 years ago I would see him biking on Highway 619 and at the local pool when he was a triathlete.

The Vermilion-born and two-time Olympian has a solid track record in 2024 after winning the second stage of the Vuelta Espana Femenina.

The 35-year-old won the 2023 Paris-Roubaix Femmes one-day race, her biggest victory to date, and it will be a familiar Olympic event for her.

She conquered the 145-kilometer course with numerous cobblestone sections and triumphed in a sprint finish. She was the first North American cyclist — male or female — to win the classic Paris-Roubaix race and the first Canadian to win one of road cycling’s most prestigious five-day races, known as the Monuments.

The professional cyclist is racing with the EF-Oatly-Cannondale team in the USA this year.

Jackson made her Olympic debut competing in the women’s road race at Tokyo 2020. She will also compete in a time trial in Paris.

Two months later, she finished sixth in the women’s road race at the 2021 UCI World Championships, the best individual result of her career at a world championship. She had twice finished fifth in the team time trial, in 2015 and 2016.

Jackson is a two-time national champion in the women’s road race, winning in 2021 and 2023 and finishing second in 2022.

She also won the national women’s individual time trial title in 2021. In 2023, Jackson became a double medalist at the Pan American Championships, taking silver in the road race and bronze in the individual time trial.

Jackson joined her first professional team, Twenty16, in 2015, competing in three stage races and never looked back. Come on, Alison, Come on!

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