BURLINGAME — Dangling from Lily Zhang’s necklace is a charm that never comes off.
It says, “Lily, 012,” with the five Olympic rings.
It’s supposed to say “2012,” but the first number fell off sometime between Zhang’s first-ever Olympic appearance in London in 2012, when the then-16-year-old was the third-youngest of any Team USA member at the Games, and this summer, when Zhang will appear in her fourth Olympics in Paris.
Zhang, now 28, is as experienced as her fading necklace.