BMX racer Felicia Stancil shares how family tragedy sparked her Olympic dream
Felicia Stancil lost her mother at age 3.
Felicia Stancil lost her mother at age 3. Exactly one year after her death, Stancil’s father introduced her to BMX racing, a sport that he competed professionally in for years.
Stancil, a BMX racing Olympian primed for Paris, said that although her mother’s death deeply impacted her, it affected her father even more.
“It changed my dad,” Stancil said. “He put so much time and energy into showing me BMX.”
Now Stancil, a Lake Villa, Illinois, native, is on her second quest for Olympic glory after falling short of medaling at the Tokyo Games by less than half a second.
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