Eve McCrystal: 'I have to fight for my seat at Paris 2024'

The 43-year-old garda and mother of two has been cycling with Katie-George Dunlevey for nine years – but whether or not she’ll accompany her to Paris in 2024 is still an open question

Para-cycling pilot Eve McCrystal: Nutrition is critical to her success as an athlete but no food is ‘off the table’. Picture: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

Paralympic champion Eve McCrystal is fresh off another medal-winning weekend when she picks up the phone.

Since coming away with gold at the Tokyo Paralympics, it was her first time back on the tandem with partially sighted partner Katie-George Dunleveyand. And there was pressure to perform well at the UCI Paracycling World Cup in Ostend, Belgium, held earlier this month.