 After victories in World Cup races earlier that year, expectations ran high, but at the World Championships in Melbourne, Australia in May 2004, she collided with British rider Victoria Pendleton’s wheel in the sprint and bruised her right hip in the crash.In the following 500mTT competition, she finished eighth, Australian Anna Meares winning this event.At the Olympics in Athens on 20 August 2004, Tsylinskaya took the bronze medal, her only Olympic medal, in the 500m time trial.