Welcome back
to TALK Olympics. Simone Emanuel from Sugar Land,
TX and Stephen F Austin High School is headed to
Paris for the
2024 Olympics. Has made a third Olympic team.
And joining me now should be her mom and her
dad.
Who do we have? We actually is Sharon Manuel.
How are you?
I'm great. Dad's at work today.
Dad's at work today. Well,
that kind of figures. I know you guys are saving
money,
getting ready for Paris. I understand that.
OK, So your daughter, she's getting,
I mean, she's getting it done.
She won the 53 in the final women's event at
swim trial 24 there,
Lucas Oil Stadium. I got to ask you,
how did it feel to see your daughter win the
meet the way she did?
It was awesome,
absolutely awesome. It was a pretty rocky road the whole
time at trials.
Didn't quite, you know, get all the results that she
wanted.
But she she, she's a trooper and she hung in
there and she got it done.
Michael Phelps Olympian showed her a lot of love on
Twitter and in the press booth.
Can you talk about that?
Well, she, Michael Phelps, she was on the team with
him,
I believe in 2016 when he swam,
made his last Olympic appearance.
And so she does have somewhat of a relationship with
him in that she moved to Arizona
to train with Michael Phelps's old coach,
Bob Bowman. And before she made that transition,
she and Michael had had a call,
an extensive call, where she just kind of talked to
him right after she came back from Tokyo Olympics,
when she was thinking about where would her next move
be.
And I remember that she and Michael had a call
and they talked for quite a while just about,
you know, how she was doing,
where she was mentally, physically,
you know, she asked questions about what would be some
good options for her as far as coaching.
So they did have a little bit of a relationship
there.
What would you say would be her best event?
And that's awesome that she and Michael had that have
that relationship.
What would you say would be her best event?
I would say probably the 100 free would be her
best.
That that has been her signature event for quite a
while.
That's, you know, kind of her baby,
but the 50 free, she's also equally as good.
So I but I would say probably the 100 free
edges out just by a little bit.
All right, we got about 20 seconds left.
Do you have your tickets for Paris?
We do.
All right. Well, you know,
we got to talk before you go in,
after you get back after Simone wins the goal.
Good luck. Thank you for joining us.
We certainly appreciate it. Congratulations.
Thank you. All right, Very good.
That is so awesome. Sharon Manuel joining us this morning
on the show.
Her daughter Simone Manuel, headed to the Olympics in Paris.
We're live here in studio.
Nate Griffin, FOX 26 Morning Sports.