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USA Biking introduced an replace to the Paris 2024 Olympic highway race roster this morning, only a couple weeks out from the Video games.
Kristen Faulkner (Homer, Alaska; EF-Oatly-Cannondale) will now don the Group USA equipment in Paris, changing Taylor Knibb (Washington, D.C.; Trek Manufacturing unit Racing) within the highway race. Knibb, an expert triathlete, will compete within the time trial and triathlon.
Chloé Dygert (Brownsburg, Ind.; CANYON//SRAM Racing) will compete in each the highway race and time trial.
Forward of the Olympics, USA Biking earned two spots in each of the ladies’s highway biking occasions.
Dygert earned a type of spots after profitable the 2023 UCI Time Trial World Championships, which certified her for each the Olympic time trial and highway race.
In Might, Knibb shocked the biking world with a victory within the US Nationwide Time Trial Championship. The win robotically certified her for the opposite spot in each the Olympic time trial and highway race.
Nevertheless, early this week Knibb resigned from her place within the highway race, opting to deal with the time trial and triathlon occasions. In mild of this choice, Faulkner was chosen to hitch Dygert within the highway race in Paris. The EF rider gained the elite nationwide highway race title in Might.
Along with the highway race on August 4, Dygert and Faulkner will compete within the ladies’s group pursuit, with qualifying beginning on August 6.