Wisconsin senior Phoebe Bacon is every week faraway from qualifying for the 2024 Paris Video games. Nevertheless, the Badger swimmer has nonetheless but to totally course of she’ll be making her second journey to the Olympic Video games.
Impressed by Katie Ledecky in 2012, seeing was believing for a younger Bacon.
“I went to the identical grade college as her,” Bacon mentioned. “It simply blew my thoughts. She could possibly be an Olympian, and it simply pushed me into considering, possibly I could possibly be an Olympian.”
9 years later, she turned that dream into actuality, ,qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Video games held in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bacon remembers not absolutely embracing the second and plans to alter that this time round.
