Katie Archibald out of Paris Olympics after tripping in garden and breaking lower leg

Team GB's star rider breaks two bones in fall, out of games

Katie Archibald in the omnium at the world championships in Glasgow
(Image credit: SWPix)

Two-time Olympic champion Katie Archibald is out of the Paris Olympics after an innocuous garden fall saw her break bones in her lower leg.

The GB track star confirmed on her Instagram that the incident would prevent her from racing at her third games. 

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