Kristen Faulkner’s life has long been about taking risks. A Harvard graduate, she first began a career in venture capital, tasked with picking the right companies to invest in. "They were quite high risk," she says, but she quickly learned to analyse them, calculate them, and figure out which ones were worth taking.
On Sunday, in the road race at the Paris Olympics, Faulkner took one of the biggest risks of her young cycling career.
