She's got the story, now Anna Hall can be a breakout star with a strong Paris performance
The Paris Olympics will award gold medals in 329 events. A few lucky winners will convert that gold into stardom.
Anna Hall could be one of them.
TV viewers saw why at the U.S. track and field trials. It was as if NBC called Olympic Central Casting and said, “Send over someone who is poised, telegenic and has a redemption story that tugs at the heartstrings.”
The network got it with the women’s pentathlon. Hall ran, jumped, threw and hurdled herself to exhaustion. When she collapsed after clinching first place in the final 800-meter race, the tears flowed.
“I’ve waited for so long,” Hall said. “My Olympic dreams have been really, really hard
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