USA Cycling introduced on Tuesday that triathlete Taylor Knibb as opted to resign her place within the Olympic Games girls’s street race, resulting from happen on August 4 in Paris.
Knibb was the shock winner of the ladies’s particular person time trial on the USA Cycling Pro Road National Championships in May, incomes an computerized qualification for each the time trial and street race on the Paris Olympics.
However, Knibb lacks any worldwide mass-start street racing expertise. Faulkner, winner of two levels of the Giro Donne and a stage of the Vuelta a España, is the reigning US street race champion, and was chosen to switch Knibb after making the US Olympic crew for observe biking.
Rules enable nations to substitute riders with athletes from different disciplines.
Faulkner will be a part of Chloé Dygert for the street race whereas Knibb and Dygert will compete within the particular person time trial on July 27.
Dygert and Faulkner can even compete within the girls’s crew pursuit.