Photo: Casey B. Gibson

Taylor Phinney

Age: 18 (Boulder, Colorado)

EVENTS

Individual Pursuit

PRIOR OLYMPICS

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Phinney punched his ticket to Beijing back in January when he eclipsed a time standard at the third round of the 2007-08 UCI Track World Cup Classics series at the ADT Event Center in Los Angeles. His mark of 4:25.684 in the qualifying round of the 4,000-meter individual pursuit on Jan. 18 earned him an automatic nomination for that event in Beijing.