America’s Kristen Faulkner keeps cool head to take gold in Olympic road race

America’s Kristen Faulkner keeps cool head to take gold in Olympic road race

Netherlands’ Vos second, Belgium’s Kopecky thirdBritish national champion Pfeiffer Georgi finishes fifth

The best-laid plans of the world’s top racers were blown apart in the chaos of the cobbled streets of Montmartre, as Kristen Faulkner of the United States emerged to claim the gold medal in the women’s Olympic road race.

On a day littered with tactical confusion, the absence of race radios only fuelled the sense of mayhem. It needed a cool head to assess the possibilities for victory, and, when it came to the pivotal moment, just under three kilometres from the Trocadero, it was Faulkner who had it.

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