Kristen Faulkner was in third place with 3.4 kilometers to go when she moved around the leaders and catapulted herself to first. She then finished with gold.
Kristen Faulkner did something for Team USA at the Olympics that hadn’t been done since the 1984 Summer Games – win a gold medal in the women’s cycling road race event. She did it in dramatic fashion on Sunday.
With about 3.4 kilometers to go, Faulkner found herself behind Dutch cyclist Marianne Vos and Belgium’s Lotte Kopecky. She was just ahead of Hungary’s Blanka Vas. Faulkner was right behind Kopecky when she pulled out from the group and zoomed around them. She then pulled away from the group and grabbed the gold medal by about a minute. 'It's a dream come true,' she said. 'It's the best feeling in the world. I don't know how to describe it.
The focus is now on the National Velodrome of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines on Monday. Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
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