Yee will renew his battle with Olympic silver medalist Hayden Wilde of New Zealand, whom Yee hunted down in the final moments of the men’s individual triathlon in Paris to win gold. Boston is a bit like home turf for Yee, who has long been sponsored by Boston-based New Balance.

“I remember coming down my first time to the Lenox and staying outside the where the Boston Marathon finishes,” Yee said. “And over that week of the Boston Marathon, whilst I was here, just feeling that buzz and that energy about the area, and for me, I really kind of fell in love with this place a little bit, just the energy and how excited everyone was.

“I’m excited that we’re finally able to race here.”

The supertri League is a global race series that features some of the world’s best athletes in a unique format that sees them complete three consecutive swim-bicycle-run sequences; instead of finishing their run and heading for a postrace meal, they’ll be heading straight back into the water.

“You have to think about so many different elements to the race,” Spivey said. “How you’re going to set your bike in transition, what gear you’re going to be in, if you’re going to rack your bike forwards or backwards, how many running shoes you’re going to have … It’s like all these little intricacies that you know you have to think about.”

The supertri race will serve as the closing act Sunday afternoon. The weekend starts with the kids race Saturday morning before the Olympic-distance triathlon — a 1.5-kilometer (0.93-mile) swim, a 35-kilometer (21.75-mile) bike ride, and a 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) run — at 7 a.m. Sunday. That will be followed at 8:40 a.m. by the sprint-distance race, with each leg exactly half the distance of its Olympic-distance counterpart.

Athletes will complete the swim in the harbor at Carson Beach, bike up and down Day Boulevard through Pleasure Bay, and run through Moakley Park before finishing back at the beach.

Then Sunday morning’s competitors will be able to relax with a drink and a bite to eat and watch some of the best triathletes in the world go head-to-head at 12:30 p.m.

“All of my athletes will be off the course, done and dusted, medals around their neck, beer in their hand, slice of pizza, feeling the glow of their own race,” race director Michael O’Neil said. “And then, boom, 12:30 hits, this just incredible spectator event with the world’s fastest athletes fresh off of Paris.”

“It’s really cool,” said Yee. “Triathlon’s always been a community-based sport; we’ve always focused on including everyone, no matter what level you are. People will be able to race their own race, have their own ambitions, their own goals, and then also be able to kind of appreciate what we’re doing as well.

“And from that point of view, hopefully we’ll be able to inspire some of the younger generation that have come and potentially tried the sport for the first time.”

O’Neil, once an agent in the sport before moving full-time into ownership and operation, had a longstanding connection with multiple-time triathlon world champion Chris McCormick, one of supertri’s founders.

The Boston Triathlon wasn’t quite ready for that sort of venture yet, but bringing supertri to Boston seemed like a matter of when, not if.

“It was a little early in their development, and it was also an interesting growth period for the Boston Triathlon, and I felt like it would not have been good timing to bring it to Boston then,” O’Neil explained. “We’re at a place now where this would be a good fit for us.”

That didn’t mean it was an easy undertaking to add a top-level pro race to an event that O’Neil said was already “an eight-ring circus.” With a few dozen permits required, swim clinics, media, and road closures already to account for, O’Neil and co-director Will Thomas had to figure out how to stage supertri, too.

It helped that they caught some natural breaks. The looped nature of the course made the unusual transition from the run back to the swim possible. The road closures for the race meant they already had two large parking lots either side of the McCormack Bath House at Carson Beach at their disposal to add another ring to the circus, as O’Neil and Thomas coordinated operations with their supertri counterparts in Europe.

As it turns out, from thousands of miles away, they were already on the same page.

“So we laid this out, and we had our first call with their ops guys and they had the whole thing mapped out just like we did, just from looking on Google Earth,” O’Neil said with a laugh. “And when we rolled [our plans] out, they started laughing, and they’re like, ‘This is going to be great.’ ”

So before supertri heads to Chicago, London, the south of France, and Saudi Arabia, it’ll start in South Boston.

“It’s a real honor,” O’Neil said. “There’s only five of these in the world, only two in the US, and this is the first time they’ve ever staged a race at an event that they don’t own. I think it’s a real testament to Boston being just a legendary sports town.”

Amin Touri can be reached at amin.touri@globe.com.

Former Pittsburgh Steelers safety Tre Norwood is signing with the Birmingham Stallions of the United Football League, the league announced on Friday. This is the first time that Norwood has resurfaced since joining the Buffalo Bills in 2023.

However, Norwood has not been in an NFL training camp this year and has seemingly drawn little interest from teams, which has left him no choice but to pursue to the UFL as an alternative.

Norwood, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ seventh-round draft pick in 2021, stayed with the team from 2021 to 2022 as one of their reserve safeties and special teamers. However, a calf injury during the team’s 2023 training camp doomed Norwood’s roster spot.

Instead, Norwood was released and joined the San Francisco 49ers’ practice squad. Later, he would try out for several teams before joining the Bills. Yet, the Bills did not renew his contract at the season’s end, making him a free agent.

Norwood, 25, has 61 tackles and one interception in hi career. Throughout his NFL career, Norwood has made his name off making plays with his football IQ rather than athleticism. At 5-foot-11 with a 4.57 40-yard dash, Norwood never had elite size or athleticism and made up for it with his versatility and football IQ. Now, he hopes those same qualities will get him back into the NFL, potentially after showing out in the UFL.

Though our current calendar reads 2024, it’s 1968 that’s on the minds of many at this year’s Democratic National Convention.

That’s even true for people who weren’t alive in 1968, like Connecticut State Rep. Corey Paris, a 33-year old who represents District 145 in Stamford. He’s one of the Connecticut delegates attending the convention in Chicago.

“I just want to dispel the 1968 comparisons,” Paris said.

Parallels between 2024 and 1968

Some of the parallels between then and now are more circumstantial, like the Chicago location and the fact that both sitting Presidents (Lyndon Johnson in 1968, Joe Biden in 2024) declined to run for re-election and ceded the top of the ticket to their vice presidents. But there is one potentially incendiary parallel.

In 1968, the DNC took place at the same time as the Vietnam War. A large swath of American teens and young adults took to the campuses and to the streets to voice their vehement opposition to the war. Many of those protesters showed up outside the convention in Chicago to protest. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley sent in a large police presence to aggressively confront the protesters. Many historians believe the nationally televised violence between police and protesters contributed to the GOP winning the White House that year.

Now, in 2024, the American government’s support for Israel in the Israel-Hamas war — as the Palestinian death toll in Gaza continues to climb — have also sparked protests from coast to coast. Anti-war protesters have pledged to show up in large numbers outside of the DNC in Chicago.

Paris says that’s OK.

“Look, this is part of the democratic process for these young students to be able to exercise their constitutional right by voicing their right to protest in Chicago, and we’re not going to take that away from them,” Paris said. “And I don’t want anyone to think that’s going to create a bad look or a dark cloud over our convention. There’s still going to be a lot of joy inside and on the way to 270 [electoral votes] come November.”

Democrats excited

This will be the third Democratic convention for Paris, and his second as a delegate.

“I’m really excited to be able to be in Chicago as we get ready to nominate and remain energized to elect our 47th president,” Paris said. “The energy and the enthusiasm is going to be absolutely wild, certainly because of [presidential and vice presidential nominees] Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, who has, I think, stormed onto the scene and is now a new, beloved figure. I mean, you just can’t help but love the guy!”

Harris’ impact on Connecticut races

Paris said the enthusiasm for the Harris-Walz ticket promises to be a tide that will lift the boats of many Connecticut Democrats in November’s election.

“I think what she’s been able to do is one help down ballot ticket races here in the state,” Paris said. “I also know that there are a lot of state legislative seats and a few municipal seats that probably, for the most part, will be safely in the hands of Democrats, whereas before, it could have been a little shaky due to the top of the ticket.”

Connecticut speakers

Before the DNC, Paris thought it very likely that U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes, who represents Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District, would be one of the speakers. She’s in a closely-contested rematch in November against Republican George Logan.

“Hayes has a very close relationship with the vice president, so I imagine that she will be a speaker,” Paris said. “I know that Sens. [Chris] Murphy and [Richard] Blumenthal have both been outspoken critics of the Republican Party, but also outspoken proponents of President Biden’s and Vice President Harris’ message and also their agenda and their successes. And so I imagine that they will be speaking as well.”

Paris said he expects one key difference between the speeches made at the DNC compared with those made at the Republican National Convention earlier in the summer.

“I think that most of what they [the Democratic speakers] will say will be factual, and I think there will be less fact checkers at the Democratic convention than there were at the Republican convention,” he said. “I’m excited to see what those speakers will be able to bring and how they’ll be able to certainly lend a voice to our already extensive work.”