2012 - CYCLING

UNITED STATES 2012 CYCLING OLYMPIC MEDALS

Women

Omnium		Sarah Hammer 19 pts
Team Pursuit		Sarah Hammer Dotsie Bausch Jennie Reed 3:19.727 min
Time trial	Kristin Armstrong 37:34.82 min
Mountain-bike			Georgia Gould 1:32:00 h

The United States conducted a good campaign at Olympic Cycling at the 2012 London Games, with the conquest of 4 medals, 1 gold. However, all medals were won by women, while US men experienced complete failure, because they didn't reach the podium in any race. MEN. The United States completely disappointed in the male cycling competitions. Its cyclists didn't win any olympic medal, confirming the downswing of Americans in Cycling, since doping scandals costed the Tyler Hamilton's gold medal in the 2004 Olympics time trial event and will also cost the Lance Armstrong's bronze medal in the same event of the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. WOMEN. The Americans made ​​a great showing and took second place in the medals table, behind only the United Kingdom. US cyclists won 4 medals, 1 gold. Kristin Armstrong easily won the time trial event, repeating her victory from 4 years ago. Sarah Hammer had a good performance in the Omnium event, taking the silver medal by just one point behind Britain's Laura Trott. Hammer also integrated the strong U.S. pursuit team, who won the silver medal, again behind the UK. Georgia Gould completed the collection of U.S. medals with the bronze medal in the mountain bike race, ahead of favorite Russian Irina Kalentieva.