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Lizzie Deignan rules out retiring with cyclist determined to race in Tokyo 2021 Olympics

Lizzie Deignan has ruled out retirement at the end of the year after seeing the cycling calendar decimated by the coronavirus.

Deignan, who became a mother with the birth of daughter Orla in September 2017, had last year floated the possibility this could be her final season as a professional as she targeted one final Olympic Games and one more attempt to regain the world title she won in 2015.

But even before Tuesday's confirmation that Tokyo 2020 will be delayed by up to 12 months, Deignan had made up her mind to keep racing.

'Since I had my daughter I've only raced 21 days but I've done an awful lot of training,' Deignan told the PA news agency.