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 ...

Connie Carpenter-Phinney took home gold in 1984. Faulkner, an Alaska native, is a late bloomer in the sport. In fact, she did not start cycling until 2016, but has displayed dominance in the sport ...

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 ...

However, the Olympics played a part in the revival of the cycling craze in the USA, with the Olympic team's 1984 victory in Los Angeles, led by Alexi Grewal and Connie Carpenter-Phinney ...