Rice Lake's Kenny Bednarek aims for gold in the 200 meters at Paris Olympics

Even when Lance Allen caught up with Kenny Bednarek around Christmastime, when he went home, it was fast.

"Yeah, I haven’t been home since last Christmas," Kenny Bednarek said. "So just to come up here, see the snow, see the family—it means the world to me. I barely get the chance to see them. So, I don’t know, every single time I come home, it’s just reminiscing and being glad to be here."

Here, is Rice Lake, Wisconsin.

"As you know, it’s a town of 8,000 people," Bednarek said. "Maybe a little bit more now. Everybody knows each other. Everybody supports each other. So it just made me humble, even when I was on top of the world."

From Florida, where he trains, to Tokyo, where he earned a silver medal in the 200 meters, this young man from Northern Wisconsin defies the odds.

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