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00:00So Ashley, you're a history maker, you know, standing next to you, it's just really an honor

00:04for you as a black woman representing the United States in Paris. What does that accomplishment

00:09mean to you? Also, just keeping in retrospect how you're representing in your sport.

00:13Yeah, I think that that accomplishment means a lot to me. I know that that accomplishment means

00:18a lot to me because for me, it's about what this sport could look like, what the hope for

00:25the sport could be. And just like every young black girl and black boy that I meet who wants

00:31to be here but doesn't see themselves here, I hope that I can be a mirror to hold up. And

00:37I'm like, you can be here. This is how you do it. This is what I've been through. This is

00:42what you're going to experience. And get some of that preparation, get some of that

00:47encouragement that I maybe didn't get when I was younger, maybe that representation I didn't see.

00:55Yeah.