Who Will Join Simone Biles On US Gymnastics Team For Paris Olympics 2024? Find Out (2024)

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Simone Biles is done competing at Paris 2024: "I've accomplished way more than in my wildest dreams" It was the question that lingered ahead of Paris 2024: How would Simone Biles handle the Olympic stage again three years after Tokyo 2020 in 2021? Just fine, it turned out. In fact, more than fine.

As the U.S. women's gymnastics team goes for gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics, you'll flip for these fun facts about Simone Biles, Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera.

Is this the single greatest piece of gymnastics ever done? At 27-years-old, Simone Biles is not only regarded as the best gymnast of all time, but one of the best athletes of all time.

With 11 Olympic medals, she is tied with Věra Čáslavská as the second-most decorated female Olympic gymnast, and has the most Olympic medals earned by a U.S. gymnast.

Simone Biles added four Olympic medals to her collection with her performances in Paris. Here's a look at how she got each one. The final day of competition at the 2024 Olympics was one of mixed results for the greatest American gymnast of all time.

When Biles competed at her first Olympics in 2016, she already had risen to the top of her sport. Whether Biles could get better seemed uncertain. But as Biles continued on, with Cecile and Laurent Landi as her new coaches, she kept climbing.

Simone, together with her sister Aria, who is also a gymnast, was adopted by her grandparents Ronald, and Nellie Biles. Simone's adoptive parents decided it was better for the girls to gain some distance from their mother as she battled addiction.

Who is the oldest female gymnast to have competed in the Olympics? Now 49 years old, eight-time Olympian Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbekistan became the oldest female gymnast to compete in the Olympics when, at 46, she competed in the 2020 Games in Tokyo.

While Biles allowed she was officially retiring her eponymous Yurchenko double pike vault because “I kind of nailed that one” at the Paris Olympics, she didn't rule out a return to the Games when they move to Los Angeles in 2028. “Never say never,” Biles said. “Next Olympics are at home. So you just never know.

Biles heads into the 2024 Paris Olympics at 27 years old, making her the oldest woman to compete for American gymnastics on that stage since the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. That year, the U.S. had four athletes over the age of 27, with Marie Margaret Hoesly being the oldest at 35 years old.

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And when she lands, she tends to do so in a tempest in cheers. When Biles leapt to the heavens during the U.S. Olympic trials' floor exercise, she racked up some serious air. In fact, she rose 12 feet into space.

My favorite color is purple. 5. I am so proud of my father, who served in the Air Force for 21 years. 6.

For the Paris Games, the USOPC is paying athletes $37,500 for every gold medal they earn. Those earning silver get $22,500 while those earning bronze get $15,000. That means Biles is in line for $135,000 just for making the podium four times over.

Skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing and breaking were four non-traditional sports that captivated audiences at the Paris Games. Breaking, also known as break dancing, made its Olympic debut. Skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing all first appeared at the 2020 Tokyo Games.

As a qualification event for the Rio 2024 Olympic Games, every gymnast will aim to be at their very best in Glasgow. The competition schedule will comprise 4 days of qualification events followed by 6 days of finals where gymnasts will compete in team, all around and individual apparatus events.

The competition was held at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas from May 30–June 2, 2024.

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