Lizzie Deignan: ‘If I don’t win races, I’ve got Orla, so it won’t be a big deal’
19 October 2018 10:30
Former road world champion hopes a return to cycling will inspire women and show motherhood does not have to cut short careersThere are three of us in this interview, and in the best of ways. As Lizzie Deignan details her pregnancy and her hopes and plans for her cycling future from a half-complete house in Yorkshire, her new-born daughter Orla is cooing and chirping in that engaging way newborns have. She is, Deignan tells me, very calm, doesn’t cry much, “not much fazes her”, and at four weeks she appears to be taking this little episode in her stride.Three years after winning the road race world championships in Richmond, Philadelphia, with her 30th birthday on the horizon, Deignan has taken on a different challenge, with the support of her husband Philip and a new team, Trek Segafredo: doing it all again as a mother, with the goal of more world championship success when the title race comes to her home roads next year, and that elusive Olympic gold medal in Tokyo a year later. Related: Lizzie Deignan will lead Trek’s new professional women’s cycling team All I have had had from Trek about my comeback is positive enthusiasm, there is no judgment on me as a mother Related: Lizzie Deignan: cycling has a long way to go before men and women are equal Continue readingread full article
