'It's hard to grasp': Small Alaska town embraces state's 1st swimmer to win gold

'It's hard to grasp': Small Alaska town embraces state's 1st swimmer to win gold
Updated: 8:25 PM PDT Jul 27, 2021
By MARK THIESSEN, Associated Press
'It's hard to grasp': Small Alaska town embraces state's 1st swimmer to win gold
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Updated: 8:25 PM PDT Jul 27, 2021
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Somebody next table said, Hey, Lydia just wanted the gold and somebody else says no, it's impossible. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The place went wild. It was so cool last year. Like right before Covid hit, we were all in the school and it was some trial to go to the olympic trials and we had the whole school watching on this tiny little tv and we all went crazy. You know, it was super hyped up. Like that was just then and now she's in the olympics and then one goal like that's, it's insane. It's hard to grasp for anybody here.

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