Six-time Olympian Diana Taurasi has extra expertise residing in an Olympic village than a lot of the 592-strong Workforce USA contingent touring to the 2024 Paris Olympics. Throughout her earlier 5 journeys, the veteran WNBA star really understood the glory an athlete feels whereas representing their nation on the Olympiad.
“My favourite a part of the Olympics is the opening ceremony,” Tauri told reporters after Mercury’s 96-87 victory on Tuesday. “Whenever you’re in that tunnel and the entire delegation is with you, each single American athlete that is labored so arduous to get to that time and also you stroll on — on this case most likely float collectively down the river — it is a fairly shifting second for you as a person, and for our staff.
“The opening ceremony marks how severe and wonderful this second is. You get an opportunity to simply go searching and be humbled and proud.”
Taurasi, a five-time gold medalist, carefully adopted the journeys of her fellow Workforce USA teammates throughout her earlier Olympic journeys and plans to take action once more. The three-time WNBA champion stated she’s hoping to look at the track-and-field and swimming occasions this 12 months simply as a spectator.
“Hopefully I can sneak into swimming,” Taurasi stated of her plans on the 2024 Paris Olympics. “After I consider the Olympics, I consider who the quickest particular person on this planet is. Who can bounce the best, who may swim the quickest — these are fascinating sports activities for me as a result of it is one evening of your finest efficiency. And that’s the final strain.”
The 42-year-old stalwart additionally hopes to look at the Argentina soccer staff following their 2024 Copa America victory.
Taurasi and her teammates are looking for Workforce USA’s eighth consecutive gold medal in ladies’s basketball, the primary of which got here on the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
