Jennifer Valente defended her Olympic omnium title, earning her second gold of the week and ending the U.S. cycling team's best Summer Games in 40 years.
Jennifer Valente rolled around the Vélodrome National de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines one last time with the American flag held aloft Sunday, a dominant defense of her Olympic omnium title giving her a second gold medal in a span of four days.The Stars and Stripes flew often after cycling events at the Paris Games.The Americans won three gold medals and six in all for their best showing at the Olympics in four decades, and Valente capped everything off in style.
Riders also can earn a 20-point bonus by taking a lap on the field, though, and that is what the American did with 36 laps to go.Valente was so far ahead that she merely had to avoid any catastrophes to stand atop another Olympic podium.'I definitely went into a points race looking at the couple of people that were trailing me and the points gap,' she said. 'I was pretty happy to let some other people take points and trying to kind of just let the race evolve.
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