USA Gymnastics: Meet the women going to Paris 2024
After two-days of ultra high-stakes competition at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials, gymnastics, the women’s team for the Olympic Games Paris 2024 has been decided.
Four Olympic veterans - Simone Biles, Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles and Jade Carey - will lead 16-year-old Hezly Rivera as she makes her Olympic debut in Paris.
The team announcement came on 30 June, and the sold-out Target Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota) saw happy tears all over as step one of the five athletes' Paris 2024 dreams came true.
Meet the team below.
As National Olympic Committees have the exclusive authority for the representation of their respective countries at the Olympic Games, athletes' participation at the Paris Games depends on their NOC selecting them to represent their delegation at Paris 2024
Sunisa Lee competes in the floor exercise on Day Two of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Gymnastics Trials on June 28, 2024 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Simone Biles
Needing no introduction, Simone Biles dominated Olympic Trials to finish in first place with a final score of 117.225 and book her ticket to her third Olympic Games.
Going into Paris as the most decorated gymnast of all time, millions of people will have their eyes on Biles as she tries to avenge her Tokyo 2020 experience, where prioritised her mental health as she deal with case of the ‘twisties.’
After Tokyo, she didn't compete for two years, but came back onto the scene hot, immediately taking the title at the all-around, floor exercise and balance beam titles at the 2023 U.S. Classic. She won the same meet in 2024 and took the World Championships team, all-around, beam and floor titles in between.
When, at Trials, a 106-year-old World War II veteran was honored and then asked who his favorite athlete was, he told the arena that it was Biles.
Sunisa Lee
Reigning Olympic all-around champion Suni Lee has landed her name on her second Olympic Team in front of a home crowd in Minnesota.
Both her uneven bar routine and vault prompted standing ovations at Trials, and even with a fall on beam, she wrapped up the final day with a score of 111.675 to finish in second place behind Biles. She has struggled with kidney-related health issues in the past, but looked strong and solid through the eight routines across two days.
Jordan Chiles
Named after basketball legend Michael Jordan, Jordan Chiles is making waves in living up to her legacy.
On day one of Trials, she clocked an all-around score of 56.400 that landed her in second place and after the final day, she had an 111.425 to finish in third behind Olympic champions Biles and Lee.
Chiles has become popular on social media with her larger than life personality and fun dances. She even kept the crowd at the Target Center entertained throughout the competition, including when she got an entire section on their feet to Party in the USA during day one. Fans were excited the 23-year-old lock her name in for Paris.
Hezly Rivera
Freshly 16 years old and a high school junior, Hezly Rivera is set to be the youngest member on this Olympic Team.
In February of this year, she won a bronze-medal in the all-around at the Winter Cup behind Kayla DiCello and Skye Blakely, both of whom were injured ahead of Trials and unable to compete.
Rivera trains at WOGA with coach Valeri Liukin, father and former coach of 2008 all-around Olympic Champion Nastia Liukin.
There, she has trained alongside 2012 Olympic all-around champion Gabby Douglas and last year, she told Olympics.com “It’s crazy because [Douglas] gives me so many tips and such encouragement.
“It’s nice to have an older gymnast who has experienced all of it,” she continued. “They know everything. It’s amazing.”
Jade Carey
Tokyo 2020 Olympic floor exercise champion Jade Carey is locked in to compete at her second Olympic Games.
In Tokyo, she competed as an individual outside of the U.S. team, and on top of her gold medal floor routine, she finished in eighth place in the all-around and on vault.
After the two days of competition in Minneapolis, she finished in fourth place with a two-day score of 111.350.
In 2022, she took the world title on vault and in the team competition and in 2019, she took the world silver on vault, just as she did in 2017. Her floor routine at Trials was the very last of the competition, and she had all of the other gymnasts right beside the floor, cheering her on before she recieved a standing ovation from the audience as soon as her music ended.