Zoe Verge-Depre and Esmee Bobner: Doing it their own way to qualify for Paris Olympics

GSTAAD, Switzerland — Zoe Verge-Depre and Esmee Bobner are, by their own admission, “not morning people.”

Yet there they were, sitting at a café in Brasilia, Brazil, at 7:30 in the morning — though in reality their bodies had no Earthly clue what time it was, having just come from Xiamen, China, a swift, 50-plus-hour trip that will leave even the most well-traveled individuals confused and weary — and Verge-Depre, in the throes of the most back-and-forth Olympic race, one in which she was battling her own sister...