“I clearly wanted to be a part of the Tokyo Olympics and I was about 24 hours away from getting there. “I have some unfinished business,” Samuelson said after a training-camp practice in South Florida this week. The Americans open play on Saturday, Cannady part of the men’s squad, Samuelson part of the women’s team - and their 4-month-old daughter will be there as well. And here they are, set to compete essentially side-by-side at the FIBA 3×3 AmeriCup that started Thursday in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Cannady promised he’d be with her for every step of that journey. Cannady, her boyfriend at the time who couldn’t even hug her because of the precautions necessary after she tested positive, asked her a simple question: Does she want to go to Paris in 2024? Samuelson was in her family’s Southern California home as that competition ended, distraught over not being able to play and needing to be replaced on that roster. Samuelson tested positive for COVID-19 right before the women’s 3×3 basketball team was leaving for Japan, denying her the chance to compete and become an Olympian. It was July 2021 during the Tokyo Olympics, when Samuelson’s team won a gold medal - without her. They made another vow to each other long before that. (AP) - Katie Lou Samuelson and Devin Cannady took their marriage vows in April.
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