Kisses, hugs or presents? None of these. Some couples have their own way of celebrating a win.
As athletes prepare for the upcoming 2024 Paris Olympics, for many, support from loved ones is what motivates them to win a medal.
As Katie Moon, a two-time world champion for the U.S. women’s pole vault team, prepares for this year’s competition, her husband, Hugo Moon, might buy her some T-shirts with some very unique prints to give her an extra boost of motivation.
“We have a joke about it, and he printed my ugliest face, big and bold, on a T-shirt,” Katie says, “so if you see it in Paris… you didn’t see it.”
Hugo was spotted in the stands at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon, where his wife won a gold medal, wearing what his wife called a “great matching T-shirt.”
But Moon’s husband isn’t the only one making the extra effort.
U.S. Paralympic Team athlete Grace Norman, who is competing for her second gold medal in the women’s paratriathlon, said her husband is very passionate about her sport.
“He’s so passionate when he cheers, and I love that about him,” Norman said. “It always makes me feel good to hear his voice.”
This will be the third time the Summer Olympics are being held in Paris, with the Paris Games coming just three years after the Tokyo Games, which were postponed from 2020 to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The upcoming Olympics will feature events at Paris landmarks, competition from the world’s best athletes and 24-hour coverage on NBC and Peacock.
With less than 100 days to go until the 2024 Paris Olympics, drone footage has revealed what the venues where some of the Olympic events will take place have been like.
