This summer s Olympic Games are planned in Tokyo, but they could be known as the Sarasota Games if everything breaks right for local athletes competing for a spot.
Three athletes with Sarasota ties have already qualified for the Games, with more potentially qualifying this month.
Mary Tucker will compete in three shooting events at the Tokyo Olympics. Photo courtesy UK Athletics.
Sarasota Military Academy graduate Mary Tucker originally qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in women s air rifle, but the games were put off a year, resetting the qualification process. Tucker, a sophomore at the University of Kentucky, has since qualified for the mixed team air rifle (10 meters) and, on May 26, the women s small-bore rifle three position (50 meters).