Susan and Sydney Williams

Williams missed the 2000 Games, pregnant with Sydney.

Susan Williams was the last American to qualify for the Olympics, but she was the first to finish and won the bronze despite an early cycling crash. New Zealand finished 1-2 in the men's race, with top American Hunter Kemper ninth.


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