Even with out competing on the Paris Olympics, Kristin Armstrong was nonetheless honoured with two medals over the weekend.
The three-time Olympic gold medalist acquired two Order of Ikkos awards, bestowed upon her by athletes Chloe Dygert and Haley Batten.
Three days into the 2024 Summer season Video games and Workforce USA has already gained two Olympic biking medals. Dygert gained bronze within the particular person time trial, and Batten took silver within the cross-country mountain bike race.
Armstrong has coached the 2 athletes for years, and on Sunday, they had been in a position to thank their coach in a giant method by awarding her the Order of Ikkos.
Created in 2008, the Order of Ikkos is a particular honour awarded by america Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC). It acknowledges the coaches of U.S. Olympic and Paralympic medalists and celebrates the numerous position that coaches play of their athletes’ success. Every U.S. Olympic and Paralympic medalist might bestow the Order of Ikkos to 1 one who has been an integral a part of their journey to the Olympics.
Each Dygert and Batten bestowed this honour to Armstrong. In doing so, the three-time Olympic gold medalist turns into a three-time Order of Ikkos recipient as nicely. Dygert had beforehand introduced Armstrong with this honour in 2021.
Chloe Dygert honours Kristin Armstrong with the Order of Ikkos
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Armstrong, 50, gained the gold medal within the particular person time trial at three consecutive Olympic Summer season Video games, starting with the 2008 Beijing Olympics and persevering with till the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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Armstrong additionally holds six U.S. Nationwide Championships titles and two World Championship titles, all within the particular person time trial.
Her success seems to have transferred onto her teaching purchasers, previous and current:
Dygert (Canyon-SRAM), who will proceed to compete within the street race and the Workforce Pursuit in Paris, is already a three-time Olympic medalist and nine-time world champion.
Jennifer Valente (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24) is America’s most-decorated observe bicycle owner to this point, with three Olympic and 18 UCI World Championship medals in her possession. She is going to compete on the Paris Olympics later this week and is more likely to broaden her assortment of trophies.
Brandon McNulty (UAE Workforce Emirates) is one in every of America’s brightest stars on the boys’s WorldTour. He is the reigning U.S. nationwide time trial champion and has stage wins at Tour de Romandie, the UAE Tour and Paris-Good to his identify.
And in securing the silver medal on Sunday, Batten gave USA Biking its best-ever Olympic mountain biking consequence.
The Olympics are removed from over for Workforce USA, with the street races and observe occasions nonetheless forward. USA Biking has set a purpose of 7-10 medals on the Video games, and so they’re on observe with two medals within the first three occasions up to now.
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