The city of Paris and its iconic landmarks have gotten an major makeover in preparation for the 2024 Paris Olympics one month away — but will everything be ready for the athletes? NBC’s Keir Simmons reports for TODAY and NBC’s Olympic primetime host Mike Tirico shares what to expect once the games begin.
Felicia Stancil lost her mother at age 3. Exactly one year after her death, Stancil’s father introduced her to BMX racing, a sport that he competed professionally in for years. Stancil, a BMX racing Olympian primed for Paris, said that although her mother’s death deeply impacted her, it affected her father even more. “It changed my dad,” Stancil said. “He put so much time and energy into showing me BMX.
” Fast-forward to 2024, and Stancil looks to finish in Paris what she started and ultimately, barely fell short of in Tokyo. Stancil said she felt she didn’t have her best lap at the finals in Tokyo and thinks she could have done better for herself. She said the Tokyo final race was on her mind a lot after the Games and that losses are easier when she knows the girls who beat her were better than her that day. But it’s the days where she knows she could’ve done better that are harder to swallow.
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