Olympics
Triangle triathlete shares medal, experience in Tokyo Olympic village
Olympian and Cary-based triathlete Katie Zaferes won a bronze medal for the U.S. on Monday night.
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Olympian and Cary-based triathlete Katie Zaferes won a bronze medal for the U.S. on Monday night.
it's been really good. Um it's like so in my first olympics in rio, we didn't really stay in the village because of where our venue was. So for me, like being in the village, being with all the athletes winning a medal, I'm pretty happy. Okay. Uh yeah, I have you right next to me. Mhm. I just put it in it, we just got the case for it. So I just Yeah, yeah. Uh huh. Uh huh. Put it somewhere not give it away. Okay. Okay. Yeah, no, I got, we went to the Today Show and I came in with it in my pocket and the host was like, it's like, what put that thing on, like, you can't have it in your pocket. Okay. Yeah, yeah, it's been good. I think they've done a really good job of like organizing things and making the atmosphere is still really cool. Even like with limitations. Yeah, yeah, like we're all kind of I mean, we it's basically the same restrictions as um like, well I've been in europe, so it's similar restrictions to europe where you're wearing a mask, like everywhere you can you can run around the village without a mass as long as when you're going near people, you put your mask up. But like I mean we get tested every day and we're basically you're like around other people, but every table has a shield. So like you're putting gloves on to go get your food and doing hand sanitizer washing your hands. Like they have people there like be sure everybody's. Yeah. I mean Japan is like probably one of the only countries who could pull like pull this off because they're doing they're doing a good job. Um The U. S. Or the U. S. Olympic committee did a really cool thing because any athlete could send two people to florida for an olympic experience for. And so like my mom and my older sister went and and they said it was amazing. So I mean obviously after the race it would have been amazing to celebrate with them. But I guess I guess I'm also kind of like, yes, I can't I can't wait. I can't. It's like three days I get to see what three days will be home and and a few more I get to see my mom and my sister.