Photo:Courtesy of Ralph Lauren/Weston Wells
Courtesy of Ralph Lauren/Weston Wells
“When I competed in Italy, they were like, ‘All right, we’re going to start in Spain, and then we’re going to work our way over to here.’ They turned it into this giant traveling road show,” the gold medalist said before recalling an especially memorable moment for his Aunt Rose on the trip.
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“My aunt fell off a scooter in Barcelona, and everybody’s all scraped up, and then they finally get to the Olympics, and I see them and I’m ready, and they’re just haggard,” he said. “They’ve just been partying and sightseeing.”
White added that he loves that his family gets to enjoy traveling the world for his competitions, and even admitted their adventures have given him FOMO before. “I think selfishly, I kind of wanted to be one of them because my part was really stressful,” thenewly-retired gold medalistshared.
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