Chloe Dygert, US poised for another Olympics medal in track cycling team pursuit
PARIS – Chloe Dygert has one medal from the Paris Olympics, and now she is poised to pick up another. Maybe gold.
The 27-year-old Brownsburg rider was on the U.S. foursome that had the second-fastest time in track cycling’s team pursuit qualifying Tuesday in the velodrome at Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France.
New Zealand had the fastest time, 4:04.679. The United States and Great Britain were next in 4:05.238 and 4:06.710, respectively.
The Americans and British will race Wednesday in the first round for a spot in the gold-medal final.
The U.S team featured two women who have Paris medals from the road: Dygert, bronze in individual time trial, and Kristen Faulkner, gold in the road race. Joining them were Jennifer Valente, who was with Dygert on teams winning silver in 2016 and bronze in 2021, and Lily Williams, a bronze medalist on the 2021 team.
So all four Americans are Olympic medalists.
Dygert crashed in both of her Paris road events. She recovered to finish third in the individual time trial and 15th in the road race.
Faulkner, 31, is an Alaskan who was a rower at Harvard. She began competitive cycling seven years ago.
Dygert’s crash and thigh injury at the 2020 World Championships have caused her to have surgeries and treatment ever since. Her training was interrupted this year first by an Achilles injury and later by a bout of COVID-19.
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