In January 52 cellphone numbers have been added to a brand new WhatsApp group. It was known as “Preparation for Paris” however might as properly have been dubbed the Golden Group, assuming issues go to plan this summer time. These cellphone numbers belonged to 52 main coaches aiming for Paris 2024, hailing from 15 completely different international locations and 19 sports activities. All of them are girls.
It consists of the two-times Olympic champion New Zealand shot-putter Valerie Adams, now a coach and chair of the World Athletics Athletes’ Fee. Simone Biles’s former coach Aimee Boorman can also be there. So too is the Olympian Sara Symington, now…