‘Finally feels like it’s real.’ Former Chiles star makes Olympic team

Reality is environment in.

The exhilaration, way too.

The Tokyo Olympics is a lot less than a month absent.

“After the yr hold off, it last but not least feels like it’s genuine,” Lily Williams explained.

When the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games was postponed a year in the past March thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, Williams seen the selection as a blessing.

It gave the previous Chiles Substantial athlete time to target on her coaching without distractions.

Williams’ dedication – and meteoric increase in the sport of biking – was rewarded in early June when she was named to the U.S. Olympic women’s keep track of cycling crew.

Williams and teammates are planning for the Games, scheduled from July 23 to Aug. 8, at the Olympic Coaching Heart in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The workforce is also scheduled to keep instruction sessions in Los Angeles in mid-July just before it departs for Japan.

Lift-off is a year later on than to begin with envisioned. 

“It was nerve-racking up right up until now simply because we weren’t certain it was going to happen,” Williams explained from her dwelling in Colorado Springs.