Athlete Spotlight: Evy Leibfarth - Listen To The Olympics On iHeartRadio

If you are wondering how to listen to the Olympics, iHeartRadio has you covered. iHeartRadio is the exclusive audio home of NBC's coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics, so it is the only place to listen to the Olympics stream. The free iHeart app is where to go to listen to exclusive play-by-play action of Team USA . To celebrate, we are spotlighting some of the country's athletes that are vying for gold.

Evy Leibfarth , a 20-year-old athlete from Bryson City, North Carolina, is making waves in the world of kayaking. Born on April 10, 1997, Leibfarth's journey to the Olympics began at the tender age of four, when she first sat on her father's lap as they kayaked on the Nantahala River. Sixteen years later, she is headed to Paris for her second Olympic Games, making history along the way.

Leibfarth's Olympic journey starts on July 27 in the kayak slalom before she competes in the canoe slalom, which begins on July 31. On August 2, she will compete in the kayak cross, a new event in the Paris Olympics. Leibfarth will become the first American woman to compete in this event and the first to compete in three paddling events at one Olympics.

Before she could even drive , Leibfarth made her mark on the kayaking scene. She made her first international appearance at 15 years old and is already a three-time world champion and two-time Pan American Games gold medalist. At just 17 years of age, Leibfarth made the Olympic team despite having just a year of senior experience under her belt.

Since her debut in Tokyo, where she finished 12th in the kayak slalom and 18th in the canoe slalom, Leibfarth has been working to get stronger in preparation for the 2024 Games. She has also worked on the mental side of the sport, meeting with a sports psychologist to talk through distractions and fears ahead of racing.

Leibfarth's biggest supporter has been her coach – her dad, Lee, a former paddler himself. Lee has been pushing Evy towards her Olympic dreams since she was 8 years old. The father-daughter duo had to learn to balance Coach vs. Dad when Evy was younger, but now she's grateful to have someone she trusts so much giving her advice.

Lee told the Citizen-Times , "It’s been a pretty amazing journey for me to have her sitting in my lap in a kayak going down some easy water in Western North Carolina to now being on the largest stage imaginable in the Olympics."

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