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Eliza Huber wearing a navy blue New Balance polo and mini tennis skirt set at Roland Garros stadium in Paris during the 2024 Olympics.

To be completely honest, I haven’t fully grasped yet that I was at the 2024 Olympics—like literally on the ground in Paris watching Rafael Nadal square up against Hungary’s Márton Fucsovics on the iconic clay courts inside Stade Roland Garros. I’ve been back home in New York for over a week now, and still, it hasn’t set in. Instead, I’ve just been watching gymnastics, basketball, swimming, and track and field on my TV as if I wasn’t just a train ride away from all four events a few short days ago. I suppose that’s normal, though, when you do something truly incredible and surreal, the only two ways I can think of to describe my five-day jaunt around the French capital.

As a fashion editor who’s spent the last five or so years completely consumed by sports—you should see my FYP; it’s only Formula One and the WNBA—I felt like it was a no-brainer opportunity when New Balance, a company that functions at the intersection of culture and sports, invited me to experience the Games with them. I jumped at the chance to see the Olympics through the eyes of a brand that’s connected to some of the sports world’s most prolific modern athletes, from Coco Gauff and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone to Gabby Thomas and Femke Bol. We witnessed historic sporting events at iconic Parisian sites like the Eiffel Tower; had the honor of meeting designers and artists from around the world, like Joe Freshgoods and Franck Pellegrino; and of course, ate frites in front of views that belong on a desktop background, not in real life. And those are just a few of the highlights.