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Kristin Armstrong wins third Olympic time trial in Rio
- Updated: August 10, 2016
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) — Veteran American Kristin Armstrong completed a remarkable Olympic cycling hat trick of gold medals by winning the women’s 29.7-kilometer time trial in Rio Wednesday.
Just a day before she turns 43, Armstrong added to her gold medals from Beijing and London to become the first cyclist to win three Olympic titles in the same discipline. She’s also tied with speed skater Bonnie Blair as the only American women to capture three gold medals in the same Olympic event.
In wet and windy conditions, Armstrong posted a time of 44:26.42 to edge out Russian Olga Zabelinskaya, who only returned from an 18-month doping suspension last year, by 5.55 seconds. Olympic road race champion Anna van der Breggen of the Netherlands took third at 11.38 seconds back.
“It’s been a long time coming,” Armstrong told NBC afterward. “I decided to come back for my second time … it was probably the hardest journey that I’ve been through. That’s why I think we keep coming back and trying to get to the pinnacle of the sport, which is the top step of the podium.” …
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