Homer’s Kristen Faulkner came out of relative obscurity to win not one, but two gold medals in cycling at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.
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Kristen Faulkner finished the 127-kilometer race in under three and a half hours, beating the next racer by almost a minute.