In similar fashion in the WC4 classification, Samantha Bosco (Claremont, California) completes a triumphant comeback to the sport by earning a Paris roster spot. Bosco was named to the Tokyo team in 2021, but an injury prevented her from competing in what would have been her second Paralympic Games. The two-time Paralympic bronze medalist has since been on a revenge tour, capturing four road world titles in the past two years to go along with six worlds medals on the track.

A serious training accident kept Bosco from competing at the Paralympics in 2021. Since coming back last year, the veteran cyclist from Claremont, California, has been nearly unstoppable. Bosco, now 36, followed up her most successful season ever with another dominant year in 2023 that included a second consecutive world cup overall title, defending her road world championships in both the road race and time trial, and three additional medals at the track cycling worlds. After closing out the year with three more medals — two of them gold — at the Parapan American Games in Santiago, Chile, Bosco enters 2024 as a favorite to add to the two Paralympic medals she won back in 2016.

Also racking up her third medal of the Games was Samantha Bosco (Claremont, CA) who will be adding a bronze medal to her two golds from earlier this week. Bosco was in good standing out of the start before a crash derailed her progress – her first crash after serious training accident in 2021 that kept her from competing in the Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020.

“It was my first crash after I got really hurt two summers ago,” said Bosco, “so it’s nice to know that I can be okay from one. Nobody ever wants to crash, so it was a hard day right from the start.”