Maple Ridge, B.C.\u2019s Maggie Coles-Lyster added another Commonwealth Games medal to her collection on Sunday. The Olympian grabbed bronze in the women\u2019s elimination race to take her second career podium at the event.<\/p>\n
Coles-Lyster, who has had a great season on the road this year with her WorldTour squad, Human Powered Health, hasn\u2019t raced for a while, but it didn\u2019t take long for her to show she\u2019s still an ace on the boards. A crash on Saturday may have stolen some skin, but the powerful Canuck bounced back to take third on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Coles-Lyster\u2019s 2026: Yes, call it a comeback<\/p>\n
The result continues an impressive comeback season for Coles-Lyster. After undergoing iliac artery surgery last year, she returned to racing in top form, including the Canadian elite women\u2019s road race title in June. And she defo did the new kit proud. In her first race wearing the national champion\u2019s kit, she finished third at the Argenta Classic\u2013Deurne in Belgium.<\/a><\/p>\n The medal in Glasgow<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m really happy. I had a career changing surgery last year, so this has been my comeback year, and it\u2019s also been my best season ever,\u201d Coles-Lyster said. \u201cComing into these Games I thought, \u2018don\u2019t leave without a medal,\u2019 so today was my last chance to make that happen and I\u2019m really happy I did. To get the job done in the elimination today, my favourite event, was a great feeling and a big sigh of relief.\u201d<\/p>\n This is Coles-Lyster\u2019s second Commonwealth Games bronze medal after finishing third in the women\u2019s scratch race in 2022. At those Games she also placed fifth in the road race.<\/p>\n There were no road events in Glasgow after the Games were moved there at the last minute when Victoria, Australia, withdrew as host. With little time to and a reduced budget to organize road closures, events such as road cycling, triathlon and the marathon were left off the program, but there was still plenty of track cycling action. Sunday marked the final day of competition. You can find the full results here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maple Ridge, B.C.\u2019s Maggie Coles-Lyster added another Commonwealth Games medal to her collection on Sunday. The Olympian grabbed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[270530,49,48,635,174338,82],"class_list":["post-842960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-2026-commonwealth-games","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-maggie-coles-lyster","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}