America’s two best triathletes, Sarah True and Gwen Jorgensen, both fought tears following the 2012 Olympic triathlon.
True was fourth, falling out of the medals in the final kilometer of the 10km run, after nearly two hours of racing, at cloudy Hyde Park. Jorgensen was 38th, her hopes punctured earlier by a flat tire during the 40km bike leg.
Following the competition, the two first-time Olympians shared a London-area suite for at least two nights.
“We were both pretty busy, just didn’t know each other very well at that point,” True said in a phone interview last week.