Four years ago, John-Henry Krueger spent Friday night and early Saturday morning at Olympic Trials lying on an apartment bathroom floor, unable to keep food down due to swine flu.
Tonight, Krueger celebrates his first Olympic berth.
“The win today in spite of what happened four years ago just made the victory that much sweeter,” Krueger said on NBCSN.
He topped the 1500m at the Olympic Trials in Kearns, Utah, to become the first of five men to qualify for PyeongChang this weekend.
Krueger was second in the first of two 1500m races behind three-time Olympic medalist J.