Triple Tokyo Paralympic 2020 medallist Eve McCrystal has said that she is taking a ‘wait and see’ approach as to whether or not she will aim for the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris.
McCrystal and tandem partner Katie-George Dunlevy took two gold medals and a silver at the Games in late August and early September, adding to the gold and silver they secured in Rio in 2016, as well as various World Championship medals. They were the most successful of the Irish Paralympic competitors in Tokyo.
McCrystal is 43 years of age and told The Irish Times that she isn’t going to make a decision yet about Paris 2024.
“I’m just going to take it year by year,” she said, speaking at Cycling Ireland’s national road championships. “I’ll do the track worlds in March with Katie, obviously, and then we will get to the summer and I will just see how I keep going as an athlete. I want to see if I can hold on to what I have. I am older, so myself and Neil [coach Neil Delahaye] will watch how I get on, and then we will make a decision based on that.
“We will see [about the future]. I will see how the body responds again to another winter and we’ll go year by year.”
