Alison Jackson jokes about her popularity boom after Paris-Roubaix triumph: "I’m going to try live off it and get a few free dinners or coffees"

Alison Jackson has lost count of the number of interviews she has done about Paris-Roubaix. The 35-year-old Canadian lady was already quite well known within the bunch. But rather than for her performances on the bike, it she was known as the 'TikTok dancer' and that is something that will stick to her for the remainder of her career, she knows.

"I remember that week, I had one day of media that was eight hours," she tells Cycling Weekly. "People came to the Airbnb, we did a ride, and they followed me around. It was like interview after interview and sometimes I would feel like I was quoting myself."

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The attention was no surprise, really. Given the scale of what she achieved, people will ask Jackson about the race for the rest of her life. She smiles at the thought. "I’m going to try live off it and get a few free dinners or coffees out of it," she laughs.

"I have this idea of me being like an 80-year-old woman, and still trying to wear my tracksuit from this year, and it’ll have a mustard stain, and I’ll be like..." she wags her finger and puts on a frail voice "Well, when I was your age... Don’t you know Paris-Roubaix?"

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