(Excerpts from Church News Article 19 July 2024 – all rights reserved)
El viernes 26 de julio se iniciarán oficialmente las ceremonias de apertura de los Juegos Olímpicos de París 2024. Los atletas levantarán, patearán, lanzarán, dispararán, driblarán, remarán, bailarán, correrán y nadarán mientras compiten en el escenario mundial.
About a dozen athletes with connections to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be part of the Olympics. One of which is Alexis “Lexi” Lagan who is a native Nevadan whose parents still reside in the Eldorado Stake in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Alexis “Lexi” Lagan, 31, is competing for Team USA in women’s air pistol. The Nevada native started Olympic shooting while attending the University of Utah; after graduating, she moved to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. At the Tokyo Games, she competed in three different events. Recently, she won silver in women’s air pistol and bronze in women’s sport pistol at the 2023 Pan American Games and silver at the 2023 USA Shooting National Championship in women’s sport pistol. Cuándo verlo: Las clasificaciones femeninas de pistola de aire a 10 metros serán el sábado 27 de julio y las finales el domingo 28 de julio.
Varios de ellos se enumeran en el Artículo de Church News Por deporte y aproximadamente en el orden en que compiten. Eventos hasta el domingo 11 de agosto.
