For the longest time, Taylor Phinney was simply the son of Olympic medalists Davis Phinney and Connie Carpenter-Phinney. That was his meal ticket, and in some ways his identity. That started to change ...

Taylor Phinney had a simple plan. The budding American cycling star was going to spend four years working toward four minutes, which was about how long his final race would have taken at the 2012 ...