Mom of Olympic Cyclist: No Mourning for Fourth Place

Connie Carpenter-Phinney, mom of Olympic cyclist Taylor Phinney, did not get as many congratulatory emails as she would have expected after Taylor finished fourth in his two races in London. “Most of (the emails) have also been, ‘Oh, I know you must be heartbroken,’ ‘Oh, I know fourth is the worst place,” said Phinney, a mom of two and an Olympian herself (she won the gold in cycling in 1984). “A lot of assumptions (are) being made that we are mourning his fourth place, which is just not true.”

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