On Friday, July 26, the 2024 Paris Olympic Games will open with a unique parade of athletes. Instead of marching around a stadium track, each national delegation will be floating down the Seine on a boat.
U.S. beach volleyball player Miles Evans relishes the prospect, even though he conceded, “We’ll be standing for eight hours.”
Evans is the latest athlete to come out of the volleyball culture of Santa Barbara and earn a shot at Olympic glory. He and Chase Budinger, a former NBA player, went down to the final weeks of their two-year partnership to secure the last U.S. berth in the Paris beach tournament.