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In Rio, Bookwalter races in rarified air
- Updated: August 6, 2016
Home » News » In Rio, Bookwalter races in rarified air
On the road to Vista Chinesa, American Brent Bookwalter flew in the rarified air of Tour de France contenders and world champions, soaring far above his usual domestique duties and into 16th place in the hardest Olympic road race in recent history.
“I was proud of how I rode,” he said at the finish line with the day’s sweat still crusted on his shoulders and shorts. “My plan, my goal and expectation, was to be the best version of myself I could be and leave it all out on the road. I think I did that.”
Things didn’t always looks so bright. Bookwalter described feeling blocked and slow in the first half of the race, his body mired in a morass of post-Tour de France recovery rides. The first time up to Vista Chinesa, on the difficult final laps, he was suffering so much he “thought it was just over,” he said. But then something clicked.
“I fought through some tough …
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