Five years ago, she crashed during the women’s road race at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games while leading and suffered three spinal fractures and severe concussion. At the Tokyo Olympics, she celebrated thinking this time she had won the race, but, without radio communications, she had in fact lost track of where Austria’s Anna Kiesenhofer was on the road, and eventually finished second. Rather than being dismayed, however, she came back strongly three days later in the Olympic time trial to take her first gold medal at the age of 39, winning by nearly a full minute.