“So I thought of it as another life lesson to teach because at age 5 you don’t quite understand that joy and happiness and being overwhelmed can also bring tears”, the cyclist, who has no relation to Lance Armstrong, added.
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Boise cyclist Kristin Armstrong takes fourth Olympics for a spinTwo-time Olympic gold medalist Kristin Armstrong of Boise ended a almost three-year retirement in April 2015 with her sights set on one more Olympic berth. She was crying as she clutched her gold medal and hugged her family. “This will leave me without any doubt about retiring”. “That really hit me hard”, she said. Armstrong also won in Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012.
It was a golden moment for American-born racer Kristen Armstrong, as she alighted from her bike and laid on the pavement to take in her victory at the ongoing Rio Olympics 2016, immediately she realizes the titles are all hers for keeps.
Armstrong is now oldest female cyclist to ever win an Olympic medal. The math said she was past her prime, but in competition she was well ahead of the field.
“The fact that Kristin did this after retiring twice and during multiple hip injuries, having a child and having to come back to the sport on a couple different occasions, I think, that’s really what makes this noteworthy”, Dreier says.
“Today after the race he said, ‘Mama, why are you crying?’ That’s a great question from a 5-year-old”. You won.’ I told him, ‘That’s what we do. “We cry when we’re happy'”.
“And I think that there’s a lot of athletes out there that are actually showing that that’s not true”. I had to win everything.
Then there were the accusations of bias: Her longtime coach, Jim Miller, also directs the national team for USA Cycling, though he recused himself from all deliberations over her selection.
“The focus of my season this year was the Tour de France, so to come back to the Olympics, to medal for a second time, is an unbelievable feeling”.
During Wednesday’s race, she and Russian cyclist Olga Zabelinskaya – who recently completed her 18 month suspension for doping – played tug of war for first place for the majority of the race.
“In the morning they told us we could participate”. It doesn’t matter whether I go from America to South America, Asia or Europe.
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Armstrong just turn 43 today and getting the gold medals in Rio yesterday must have been, a predestined fate because it quite a nice way to celebrate a birthday, it an ultimate birthday gift to one’s self. “I spend time with people in my community, and that’s what I’m grateful for”.
