Life is articulated by a series of inflection points: moments where you choose a new path or moments when change is forced upon you. For Caroline Buchanan, the past five years have been filled with twists and turns. She's railed each of them, thanks to her focus and determination.
Caroline is no stranger to success. She has won numerous Australian and World titles, is a five-time UCI World Champion in Four-Cross, and a two-time Olympian.
She's fiercely competitive and stood on the top step of almost everything she's put her mind to. Everything except Olympic gold. Olympic glory has always just eluded her: in 2008, despite being one of the top BMX riders in Australia, she was just too young to compete; in 2012, Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada, a bad start saw her fall short of the podium in fifth place; in 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she crashed in the finals.
Each of those Olympic disappointments became an inflection point away from BMX to mountain biking, a path that became more clearly defined with every turn. In 2009, she took the chance to race Four-Cross at the UCI World Championships in her hometown, Canberra, where
