The winner of that race was Connie Carpenter-Phinney. Women’s cycling is a very different world from the days when the Coloradan competed. For a start, it is professionalised compared with the ...

MONTIGNY-LE-BRETONNEUX, France (AP) — Forty years after winning gold in Los Angeles, Connie ... Carpenter-Phinney was no longer alone. She was no longer the first, and last, woman to win a road ...

MONTIGNY-LE-BRETONNEUX, France (AP) — Forty years after winning gold in Los Angeles, Connie Carpenter ... of the Eiffel Tower, Carpenter-Phinney was no longer alone. She was no longer the first, and ...

The last time an American woman won the event was at the 1984 Los Angeles Games when Connie Carpenter-Phinney placed first ... got into cycling by riding her bike around Central Park in New ...

Connie Carpenter-Phinney can relate as 1984 marked the first year women would participate in an Olympic cycling road race. “(Cycling) wasn’t equal, but there were opportunities,” Carpenter ...