Chloe Dygert road race crash ‘worth it’ given US teammate Faulkner clinches Olympic gold

Chloe Dygert came into the Paris Olympic Games women’s road race having already won a bronze in the individual time trial a week ago and with the focus being for Sunday to act as part of the run toward the hunt for gold in the Team Pursuit, which begins Tuesday.

Still Dygert and her road race and Team Pursuit teammate Kirsten Faulkner are racers after all, so when they found themselves in the reduced peloton as the competition jumped into high gear on the finish circuits in Paris chasing that immediate medal opportunity became a clear priority. So did avoiding the mayhem that could not only derail this medal chase but also the next one.