Chad and Kane Perris are both competing for Australia, a moment the siblings have been dreaming of. But their events are unfolding on the same morning, in venues more than an hour apart.
For the Perris family, Paris 2024 holds double the significance. Brothers Chad and Kane are both competing for Australia, a moment the siblings have been dreaming of.
They will have to wait a bit longer. They won’t catch up until after the finals of their events, scheduled for later on Sunday. They will miss Chad’s heat, but they’ll hail a couple of taxis along with other relatives to make the hour-long drive to the athletics stadium to watch the evening final.“It’s going to be a bit of an emotional roller-coaster for Mum and Dad,” Kane says.Getty Images
He had hardly any bike experience, but now is a tandem cyclist with sighted pilot Luke Zaccaria. They raced in the four-kilometre individual pursuit on Thursday, placing 14th, but Kane said the one-kilometre sprint was their specialty.
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