Kristen Faulkner rebounded from a second-place finish in the U.S. time trial championships by dropping Ruth Edwards along with everyone else and rolling uncontested to the finish to win the national road racing title. The second-place finish in the time trial cost Faulkner a spot on the American cycling team for the Paris Olympics.
Kristen Faulkner rebounded from a second-place finish in the U.S. time trial championships, which cost her a spot on the American cycling team for the Paris Olympics, by dropping Ruth Edwards along with everyone else and rolling uncontested to the finish line to win the national road racing title on Sunday.
“I do one race at a time and really try to focus on it,” said Faulkner, who watched the automatic nomination for the Summer Games go toWednesday. “Maybe in the big picture I knew I was coming to nationals this year, but it wasn’t something I really honed in on.”Faulkner primarily races in Europe, and she already has put together a big season. She won a stage at La Vuelta Feminina, one of the premier stage races in women’s cycling, and Omloop van het Hageland, a premier one-day race in Belgium.
The 31-year-old from Homer, Alaska, escaped along with Edwards, and the two worked well together until the last major climb on the new course around Charleston, West Virginia. Once there, Faulkner dropped Edwards and began to build a sizeable advantage, and she was able to roll down the long straightaway to the finish line with her arms outstretched in victory.
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