Jade Carey and Jordan Chiles reveal training plans for return trip to Olympics
The two Tokyo 2020 Olympic medallists have each excelled in their sophomore campaigns. In a month, they'll turn their attention to a return trip to the Games.
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Jade Carey and Jordan Chiles have had a remarkable 2023 NCAA gymnastics season so far.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympians stood atop the floor exercise podium at the Pac-12 Championships in Salt Lake City, Utah - together.
The duo, who both earned 9.975 scores to share the title, also hope to make a return trip to the Olympic Games next summer at Paris 2024 - together.
Carey and Chiles are the two top-ranked all-arounders in women's NCAA gymnastics competition and have both shone bright in their sophomore campaigns.
They'll both lead their squads - Carey the Oregon State Beavers; Chiles the UCLA Bruins - at the upcoming Regional Championships with hopes of qualifying to the NCAAs. Then, it's time to focus on Paris.
“Next year is definitely a big year and right now, we’re just kind of focused on finishing out this college season and then we’re going to evaluate and take it day by day on what my exact plan is going to be,” said Carey, the Olympic floor exercise gold medallist, according to NBC's On Her Turf. “I am pretty confident that I’m, at least, going to be around here [Oregon State], but what that looks like will probably be a little different than the past two years, but again we’re probably just going to take it day by day and see what happens.”
For Chiles, she'll head back to Houston, Texas and World Champions Centre, the gym owned by Simone Biles' family, to prepare for the Games with coaches Laurent and Cecile Landi.
“I’ll be training in Texas all of 2024 for the Olympics,” she told International Gymnast earlier this month. “I’ll just be training. I’ll be deferring (UCLA studies) another year and then I’ll finish schooling afterwards. I haven’t fully decided, but as of right now, I am coming back (to UCLA after Paris), but we’ll see how everything turns out.”