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UPDATE: Staff USA will race for gold in ladies’s workforce pursuit Wednesday night time after advancing to the gold medal last on the Olympic Video games.
The U.S. beat longtime rival Nice Britain within the first spherical with the quickest time within the morning session at 4:04.629.
The U.S. will face off in opposition to New Zealand, which knocked out Italy with its time of 4:04.818.
The workforce of Olivia Cummins, Emily Ehrlich, Kristen Faulkner, Jennifer Valente, Lily Williams and Chloe Dygert will journey in opposition to New Zealand within the gold medal race at 7:28 p.m. Paris time on Wednesday, August 7.
Italy and Nice Britain will face off for bronze medal.
Staff USA hold gold medal hopes alive
Staff USA handed an necessary hurdle after qualifying with the second-fastest time Tuesday night to maintain their Olympic Video games gold medal hopes alive in ladies’s workforce pursuit.
Simply 48 hours after powering to the gold medal within the street race, Kristen Faulkner helped drive the four-rider American squad into Wednesday’s final-eight first spherical.
Together with teammates Chloé Dygert, Jennifer Valente, and Lily Williams — all a part of the bronze medal-winning workforce in Tokyo 2020 — the quartet stopped the clock in 4 minutes, 5.238 seconds. Solely New Zealand was sooner with a time of 4:04.679.
Staff USA has medaled within the occasion yearly because the self-discipline’s inception in 2012, with silver in 2012 and 2016, and bronze in Tokyo.
Racing continues Wednesday with the primary spherical after which the medal finals.
The race-off works like this: sixth quickest vs. seventh quickest; fifth quickest vs. eighth quickest; second quickest vs. third quickest; the primary quickest workforce vs. the fourth quickest workforce.
The winners of USA vs. Staff GB and New Zealand vs. Italy will transfer into the gold medal last, with the 2 different quickest occasions will race for bronze.
Longtime nemesis Nice Britain was third quickest within the opening day of competitors for ladies’s 4km workforce pursuit, so which means the U.S. workforce face off in opposition to them Wednesday within the first spherical.
The People took greater than 1 second out of Nice Britain, who gained gold in 2012 and 2016, and gained silver behind German in Tokyo.
Staff USA will face off in opposition to Nice Britain within the first spherical Wednesday. (Photograph: Jan Woitas/image alliance by way of Getty Pictures)
Certified Groups:
1. New Zealand – 4:04.679
2. United States of America – 4:05.238
3. Nice Britain – 4:06.710
4. Italy – 4:07.579
5. Germany – 4:08.313
6. Australia – 4:08.612
7. France – 4:08.797
8. Canada – 4:12.205