Four LSU Track & Field Athletes Named to Trinidad & Tobago Olympic Team
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Updated: 6:19 AM CDT Jul 6, 2021
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you Saint bolts, triple triple Simone manuals. Historic swim. These are just two of the most memorable and most watched moments from the Rio olympics in 2016 But they weren't the most viewed according to Nielsen Sports Ratings. The games in Brazil drew a worldwide audience of 3.6 billion but the Paralympics in Rio were watched by 4.1 billion people in more than 150 countries. We're getting better advertisement like we're starting to get, you know, big name athletes in the pair of world into prime time commercials on tv. You start to see it more. Come on baby Nice born in new Orleans and raised in the Cajun Heartland of Acadiana. Hagen Landry is a favorite to represent the United States and track and field at the paralympics in Tokyo. He also has a theory about the rising popularity of para athletes. We're starting to see more social interaction amongst able bodied athletes and pair of athletes and I believe that's a great thing. You know, the able bodied and the pair are coming together and back in each other is helping us out in a strong way as well and people watching the games will see great stories like Landry's the son of a track star who loved football growing up, he was recruited into the paralympics as a senior in high school and has never looked back and it was from that moment, I was like, okay, we need to take this seriously, it's it can pay, it can lead to bigger things. And so that was the moment where it's like, okay, this is the route, we're not going to the NFL clearly, but here's where my path is meant to be, That path led him to Peru and the power of Pan American Games where he won a gold medal in the shot put, and if he ends up on the medal stand in Tokyo, he wants the people back home in Louisiana to know one thing it's gonna be from New Orleans, it's going to be for Monroe area is gonna be for Dell. Come it's going to be the entire state. Louisiana is with me wherever I go. NBC will ever record 1500 hours of power olympics coverage this summer, including the first primetime broadcast of the Games. The paralympics start in Tokyo, august 24th, they run through september 5th on the road to the Tokyo olympics. I'm fletcher, Mackel