"I'm here in Boise for the final preparations. I feel good," said the American after a tough season. Her words were recorded in an interview with Cycling News. Dygert didn't have to wait for the USA team to announce its selection for the Olympic Games. She had earned her ticket to Paris 2024 by becoming world time trial champion in Glasgow.

The 27-year-old had a perfect plan. She wanted to build a solid base and then fine-tune her form for Paris by riding a full and demanding spring calendar, including all the classics. Everything was going well, even better than expected, but then the dark side of sport, injuries, intervened. After winning the World Championships in Glasgow, she suffered an unexpected Achilles injury.

"The original plan was to have our team camp in December, go to Australia for the Tour Down Under in excellent shape, do the spring classics, race hard in the first part of the season, and then take a break before the Olympics," Dygert said. "But things didn't go as planned," she said. 

In December she tried to speed up her recovery and things got complicated. She had to stop training and her preparation became difficult. Consequently, she will come to Paris 2024 with only three days of road races under her belt. Much less than she had originally planned.

Like any athlete, doubts arose. Concerns about whether she would be ready began to surface. "I had been off the bike for three weeks. When I got back on, it was thirteen weeks until the time trial at the Games. I remember thinking I couldn't do it. 

There wasn't enough time. But the team and my coaches Kristin and Gary (Sutton) calmed me down and told me I could do it as long as there were no more setbacks," she told Cycling News.

Dygert competes in both track and road cycling, specialising in pursuit events. She has taken part in two Summer Olympics and won two medals in the team pursuit event: silver at Rio de Janeiro 2016 (with Sarah Hammer, Kelly Catlin and Jennifer Valente) and bronze at Tokyo 2020 (with Megan Jastrab, Jennifer Valente and Emma White). This will be her third Olympic appearance.

Between 2016 and 2023, she won eight medals at the World Track Cycling Championships. On the road, she won two gold medals at the World Road Cycling Championships in 2019 and 2023, making her one of the favourites alongside a group of European riders coming off the Giro d'Italia and ahead of the women's Tour de France.

She won two medals: gold in the time trial and gold in the track team pursuit at the 2019 Pan American Games.