Jamaican sprinters won two gold medals at track and field worlds. Another Jamaican ran with blurry vision after glass shards got in his eye from a cart crash.
Throughout the summer, in a series called Hometown Hopefuls, NBC is spotlighting the stories of Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls from all fifty states, as well as Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, as they work towards the opportunity to represent their country at the Paris 2024 Games next year.
