"The heat was palpable, but luckily I can handle it well. The ambition was a medal, so I'm happy with bronze," the 27-year-old Belgian analyses of the Omnium. "I thought 'Yes, finally started well', but then it went badly in the tempo lap, where I really lagged behind. That somewhat ruined my good start. Sometimes you are well in the race and sometimes not. If people are just ahead of you, you are constantly behind the facts."
Jennifer Valente of the U.S.A took the win, Kopecky having settle for third. "But I know I shouldn't hang my head after a bad start. That is also characteristic of the omnium. It is four times your full charge, regardless of the previous result," she concludes. "But I was certainly not convinced that I had a medal, because I still had to deal with
Katie Archibald, certainly not one of the least."
