Kristen Faulkner wins 2024 Paris Olympic cycling road race
The US rider shocked all pre-race favourites in a thrilling race, as Netherland’s all-time great Marriane Vos and Belgium’s world champion Lotte Kopecky took silver and bronze respectively in a sprint photo finishA late addition to the US road cycling squad, former rower and 31-year-old Kristen Faulkner who only started cycling seriously in 2017, beat the odds and all pre-race favourites to become the Olympic champion in road cycling with a dominating performance that culminated in a solo...
However, none of the attacks seemed to stick, until a Deignan attack which was only followed by the effervescent Hungarian national road champion, the 22-year-old Blanka Vas, accompanied by perhaps the greatest female cyclist of all-time, the 37-year-old Marriane Vos, who caught up to the British rider before dropping her and setting off down the technical descent.
But despite Faulkner pulling for most of the final kilometres, managed to break clear of everyone else with one last push, going solo and leaving Vas, Vos and Kopecky behind, the triumvirate looking at each other helplessly as the American lay the power down, growing the gap to 20, 30 and eventually 58 seconds by the time she crossed the finish line.
"I knew that Kopecky wanted to catch the front two, so I knew she’d ride with me. I also knew that if we caught them, then I had to attack because I couldn’t beat any of them at the line. I knew the best place to attack was right after we caught them and everyone was tied. That was my chance. I practised my late attack several times this year, so I felt pretty comfortable with how to do it. I just hoped it worked.
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