Cathedral Catholic High School product caps a successful Olympics for the county
Jennifer Valente of the United States celebrates winning the gold medal of the women’s Omnium at the Summer Olympics on Sunday. SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINE, France – The profile photo on Tom Valente’s Facebook page is from the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, a jubilant shot from the cycling velodrome of their family surrounding daughter Jennifer with her silver medal.
It capped a successful Olympics for the county. Sixty-five athletes with local ties — raised in San Diego, went to school there or live there currently — competed in the Summer Games, and they’re returning home with 27 total medals from 12 different sports. Or look at it this way: Excluding medals won as part of a larger team with athletes from elsewhere, and counting medals from a two-person event as a half, San Diego County as its own country would rank 21st in the Paris medals table with 10.“As a track rider, the Olympics is the big thing for us,” Valente said. “We have the World Championships and Nations Cups, but my career has always revolved around the Olympics.
Her parents took their daughter and two sons there, put them in beginner classes, let them ride the Tuesday Night Races when they got older. It hasn’t been easy. Kelly Catlin, a member of the team pursuit silver medalists in Rio, committed suicide in March 2019 podium up top, not the sacrifice and the discipline required.For now, she has a full closet of medals, including back-to-back golds from a race designed to identify the world’s best all-around track cyclist.Then an elimination race, where the last-place rider is removed every other lap. She won that.
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