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Local Olympians: How they did in Paris

Team USA defender Cassie Sumfest, right, in a June 6 match against Team Great Britain. Sumfest, a 2021 graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, is traveling to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games as a provisional athlete.
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Team USA defender Cassie Sumfest, right, in a June 6 match against Team Great Britain. Sumfest, a 2021 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, traveled to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games as a provisional athlete.

The Paris Olympics have come and gone, but many athletes with Charlotte ties made us proud at home through competition on the world stage.

We’ll be joined by WCNC Sports Director Nick Carboni, who spoke to many of these athletes before and during the Games.

We'll also talk to a play-by-play announcer who covered track and field competitions, which included many competitors with Charlotte roots.

GUESTS:

Nick Carboni, sports director at WCNC. He interviewed most, if not all of the local athletes that competed in the Paris Olympics.
Bill Spaulding, a regular play-by-play announcer for the New Jersey Devils, but he was “moonlighting” during the Olympics as one of the track and field play-by-play voices for NBC.

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Charlotte Talks Executive Producer Wendy Herkey has been with WFAE since 1998, beginning in the membership department, and has been on the Charlotte Talks staff since 1999.