“Kristen’s well-timed late-race move was perfect,” said Carpenter-Phinney, whose son and former Olympic cyclist Taylor Phinney was in the Parisian crowd, cheering both for the Americans and ...

Meanwhile, Carpenter-Phinney was counting down the kilometers until Faulkner joined her as an Olympic champion. The similarities between them don’t end there, either.

FILE - Connie Carpenter-Phinney of Boulder, Colo., celebrates after winning the first U.S. gold medal of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games Sunday July 29, 1984, in Los Angeles winning the 79-kilometer ...

Before the 31-year-old Faulkner became an investment banker, and began riding bikes on a lark in 2017, she had rowed for Harvard. Carpenter-Phinney had done the same for California, Berkeley.

FILE - Connie Carpenter-Phinney of Boulder, Colo., celebrates after winning the first U.S. gold medal of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games Sunday July 29, 1984, in Los Angeles winning the 79-kilometer ...