The stakes and the expectations of Kate Douglass’ Olympics were clarified in full when her family walked up to Lucas Oil Stadium for swim trials and were greeted by an 84-by-214-foot likeness of their daughter, plastered to the front of the arena.
It wasn’t a surprise; Team USA had reached out to Kate about a month earlier to get the OK. She, herself, was nonchalant about the whole thing. But still.
“Gulp, I guess, a little bit,” her father, William Douglass, told The Post, describing his own reaction.
By the end of trials, after Kate won gold medals and qualified in the 100-meter freestyle, 200-meter breaststroke and 200-meter individual medley (she’s since ceded her spot in the 100-meter free), it became fun to walk up to the building and see the banner there. It’s obvious, though, that this is a different ballgame for the 22-year-old native of Pelham than it was three summers ago in Tokyo.
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