--- title: Kate Middleton: People Say Olympic Cyclist Looks Like Duchess description: The Duchess of Cambridge has a doppelgänger in Rio — but it turns out her lookalike, Pauline Ferrand-Prevot, is actually from France. canonical: https://time.com/4447223/the-internet-thinks-this-olympic-cyclist-really-looks-like-kate-middleton/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-10T20:42:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:20.965Z og:title: No, That's Not Kate Middleton, That's an Olympic Cyclist og:description: The Duchess of Cambridge has a doppelgänger at Rio's games — and she's French. og:url: https://time.com/4447223/the-internet-thinks-this-olympic-cyclist-really-looks-like-kate-middleton/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: No, That's Not Kate Middleton, That's an Olympic Cyclist twitter:description: The Duchess of Cambridge has a doppelgänger at Rio's games — and she's French. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Internet Thinks This Olympic Cyclist Really Looks Like Kate Middleton  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 10, 2016 8:42 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 10, 2016 8:42 PM UTC [Olympic doppelgängers are everywhere](http://time.com/4443005/rio-2016-olympics-leonardo-dicaprio-brady-ellison/?iid=sr-link1) this year. The latest lookalike that the internet is an uproar over: Pauline Ferrand-Prevot, a French cyclist who is in Rio to compete for her country in the road race, which was on Sunday. The 24-year-old accomplished athlete [came in 26th](https://www.google.com/search?q=olympics+rio+road+race+women%27s&oq=olympics+rio+road+race+women%27s&aqs=chrome..69i57.3470j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#mie=oly%2C%5B%22%2Fg%2F11c3ymxj%5Fr%22%2C6%2C%22w%22%2C2%2C%22%2Fx%2F3bk7pk4332jwm%22%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2C20%5D) at this year’s Games — a performance with which she said [she was “disappointed”](https://www.instagram.com/p/BI2l0iohoh7/?taken-by=paulineferrandprevot) — but she already has an illustrious set of titles in the sport as a three-time world champion in road, cyclo-cross, and mountain-bike events. But it’s her (physical) similarities [to the Duchess of Cambridge](http://time.com/4396653/serena-williams-kate-middleton-snapchat-wimbledon/?iid=sr-link1) that have spectators paying extra attention to the athlete, who’s otherwise been in the news for [calling out other athletes](http://velonews.competitor.com/2016/08/news/pre-rio-row-between-ferrand-prevot-and-armitstead%5F417121) for issues around [drugs in the sport](http://healthland.time.com/2012/08/24/which-drugs-is-lance-armstrong-accused-of-taking/). Here’s Ferrand-Prevot: And here’s Middleton: It’s definitely all about the dimples, which both ladies have in spades. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4447223/the-internet-thinks-this-olympic-cyclist-really-looks-like-kate-middleton/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4447223/the-internet-thinks-this-olympic-cyclist-really-looks-like-kate-middleton/"},"headline":"The Internet Thinks This Olympic Cyclist Really Looks Like Kate Middleton","datePublished":"2016-08-10T20:42:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:20.965Z","description":"Another day, another doppelgänger","url":"https://time.com/4447223/the-internet-thinks-this-olympic-cyclist-really-looks-like-kate-middleton/","keywords":["Newsfeed","olympics","celebrities","viral","Summer Olympics","2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4447223/the-internet-thinks-this-olympic-cyclist-really-looks-like-kate-middleton/","name":"The Internet Thinks This Olympic Cyclist Really Looks Like Kate Middleton"}}]}] ```