"I had to start working part time" - Shari Bossuyt continues to fight for her innocence while being forced to find a job outside cycling
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Shari Bossuyt has been one of the up-and-coming names in Belgian women's cycling. The 23-year-old from Kortrijk had just come off a very brilliant 2022 on the road and was carving out considerable space for herself on the track, even, if not above all, paired with Lotte Kopecky, with whom she won the Madison world title in 2022.
2023 started well for Bossuyt, who, wearing the Canyon//SRAM jersey, had won a stage at the Tour de Normandie and had obtained a series of good results in the Northern Classics. That was when the news that completely changed her season, if not career, came about positive doping test.
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Bossuyt has to start recalibrating her ambitions: "I had the dream of winning gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics together with Kopecky, but at the moment I don't even think I still have the chance to go to the Olympics. I don't believe it anymore," Bossuyt gives up.
"Furthermore, since June, as per the regulations, the team has no longer been paying me. For a few months I got by with what I had saved, but then I had to start working part time. I found a job in the marketing sector, with a fixed-term contract of 6 months," she concludes.
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- yeah, that’s a more fair assessment. “reaching mathieu’s level” doesn’t mean you’re planning to replicate his whole career. the former IS doable, potentially. it’s just the latter that likely is not.OCexile25-12-2024
- That’s not entirely true. Every person follows their own development path and peaks differently. Remco and Primoz had hardly started cycling before elite level. Jonas was pretty much under the radzr until he unexpectedly had to take over responsibility at JV. Some guys only get real good in their thirties others have peaked mid-twenties. You can’t tell in advance how and upto what level they will progress, obviously his career might not have MVDPs length but nothing says he could not end up doing a few seasons at his level.Mistermaumau25-12-2024
- well, del grosso is 21 right now. when mathieu was a year younger than that, he was already winning elite level world championships, not U23. i think del grosso will be a very good pro for years, but if he was really going to be the next van der poel someday, he’d already have to be at that level right NOW. van der poel was showing signs of true greatness when he was 15-16. THAT’S what generational talent looks like.OCexile25-12-2024
- Yeah.... gear 😅.mikolajjj24-12-2024
- It shouldn’t be about expectations in the first place should it? Besides, if you look at everyone’s calculations as a whole they don’t add up in the first place. There’ll be 2-3 riders with a 50% chance, a dozen with 10 or 20% and dozens more with a 5% so we’re expecting at least 2 if not 3 winners. Remind me again who won before her? Says it all about using data to decide on participation.Mistermaumau24-12-2024
- Ok, happy I’m not too interested in this team coz’ the account of what happened is really hard to follow.Mistermaumau24-12-2024
- The UCI is worse than USA CyclingVeganpotter24-12-2024
- It's not like they wanted her to not win😅 She had an outstanding Olympics. But there's a reason why she wasn't expected to win the road race and that's ok. Things like this happen and it's great...better than seeing expected winners win.Veganpotter24-12-2024
- Bruyneel ? The man with a lifetime ban from cycling...why do you keep giving him and his doper mate, Armstrong, a platform?DJ24-12-2024
- yeah, agree. on the subject of being a “complete rider,” i do think that’s getting more interesting. mathieu seems to have decided he wants to get much better at climbing the the high mountain passes. he appears to be looking for new challenges, which should be interesting to watch. in most cases you’d dismiss a goal like that at age 30, but it’s mvdp. he’s never going to climb with the real climbers, but if he can improve enough it could open up stage wins when the parcours isnt just purely toothy and punchy.OCexile24-12-2024