Quest for Gold – Episode 9: Mattie Sasser, an Olympic weightlifter who came from the remote Marshall Islands to Grayslake

In this week’s Quest for Gold: Snow at the Summer Olympics? USA Diving is loading up the moving trucks. Women’s volleyball continues to roll And WGN’s Ryan Burrow talks with Mattie Sasser, a Marshallese Olympic weightlifter hoping to qualify for the Tokyo games for Team USA. She’s been training in Grayslake. Her incredible journey started […]

In this week’s Quest for Gold:

Snow at the Summer Olympics?

USA Diving is loading up the moving trucks.

Women’s volleyball continues to roll

And WGN’s Ryan Burrow talks with Mattie Sasser, a Marshallese Olympic weightlifter hoping to qualify for the Tokyo games for Team USA. She’s been training in Grayslake. Her incredible journey started on a remote island running track. Years later she ended up in the Northern Suburbs of Chicago with gold medal aspirations.

http://serve.castfire.com/audio/3680771/Episode_9_2019-09-20-222711.64kmono.mp3

The 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo begin July 24, 2020

WGN’s Ryan Burrow hosts “Quest For Gold,” a weekly update on preparations for the Summer Games.

Over the next year he’ll talk to athletes, coaches, reporters, and other news makers involved in the Olympic movement…while adding a little Chicago flavor. He’ll get updates on preparations, new sports, local Olympians, and reinvestigate what went wrong in Chicago’s bid for the 2016 games.