2016 Summer Olympics

Two end slices of a loaf of bread and one egg for breakfast. Syracuse University alum Mike Gennaro stared into an Oklahoman fridge that doesn’t belong to him, frowning. He can barely pay for the food.

Gennaro’s four-year road to row in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro isn’t a road. It’s just the way he walks on a shoestring $400-per-month stipend. His house is in his backpack. He trains in his old Syracuse shorts. It isn’t ideal. It isn’t even appealing. It's a sacrifice.

But he takes it.