USA Gymnastics Team prepares for Paris 2024. USA GYMNASTICS

The 13-athlete US delegation has arrived in Paris to prepare for competition at the 2024 Olympic Games. History is on the horizon as the US women's and men's artistic teams, a pair of trampoline athletes and a rhythmic gymnast look to make their mark in the competition.

The women's team will take centre stage at the Bercy Arena with four Tokyo Olympic medallists returning to build on their success and a young star hoping to help put the team back on top. After winning team silver at the 2020 Games, the 2024 women's artistic gymnastics team is back with two goals - to compete happy and healthy, and to hear the Star-Spangled Banner on the podium after the team final. 

Seven-time Olympic medallist and 2016 Olympic all-around champion Simone Biles aims to become the first US gymnast to win more than seven Olympic medals. She will be joined by three of her Tokyo teammates, such as the reigning Olympic all-around champion, team silver medallist, uneven bars bronze and three-time World medallist Suni Lee, reigning Olympic floor exercise champion and seven-time world medallist Jade Carey and 2020 Olympic team runner-up and three-time World medallist Jordan Chiles. 

Rising star and team rookie Hezly Rivera will make her Olympic debut and is currently the youngest member of any sport on Team USA in Paris. In her first season as a senior athlete, the two-time 2023 Junior World silver medallist and 2024 Winter Cup balance beam champion is already in medal contention. Four-time World medallist Leanne Wong and 2023 Team World champion Joscelyn Roberson will also be in Paris as travelling substitutes. 

After a great World Championships in Antwerp last year, the USA men will be looking to build on their momentum and go for their best team performance since 2008. In Belgium, they won a bronze medal in the team competition and four medals in total at the event, their biggest medal haul since 2013. Should they win a team medal in Paris, it would be the first since silver in 2008. 

Simone Biles is one of the biggest draws at the Paris 2024 Olympics. GETTY IMAGES
Simone Biles is one of the biggest draws at the Paris 2024 Olympics. GETTY IMAGES

The team veteran and comeback athlete of the sport, Brody Malone returns to the Olympic stage after a whirlwind career since the Tokyo Games. The 2022 World champion on horizontal bar and a three-time U.S. all-around champion, Malone’s comeback from a 2023 knee injury has captured public attention. 

Frederick Richard has medal ambitions. After taking bronze in the all-around in Belgium, he has his sights set on Paris alongside his fellow 2023 World team medallists, 2023 US all-around champion Asher Hong and 2022 NCAA all-around champion Paul Juda and 2021 pommel horse World champion Stephen Nedoroscik. Ready to support the team in Paris are travelling alternates Tokyo Olympian Shane Wiskus and 2023 World Team bronze medallist and two-time silver medallist Khoi Young. 

In trampoline, the USA are riding a wave of momentum with 2023 women's World bronze medallist and Pan American Games gold medallist Jessica Stevens and 2023 men's synchronised trampoline World silver medallist and Pan Am Games synchro champion Aliaksei Shostak as the country's challengers. 

Stevens in 2023 became the first US gymnast to win an individual trampoline medal since 1974 and will be looking to improve on the highest ever finish by an American in Paris after Nicole Ahsinger (2020) and Savannah Vinsant (2012) both finished sixth in the final. Shostak will be competing in his second Olympic Games. They will be joined by travelling substitutes, two-time Olympian Nicole Ahsinger and four-time World Championship gold medallist Ruben Padilla in France. 

Aliaksei Shostak was born in Minsk, Belarus. GETTY IMAGES
Aliaksei Shostak was born in Minsk, Belarus. GETTY IMAGES

In rhythmic gymnastics, Evita Griskenas returns to the Olympics after a strong performance in Tokyo, where she missed the all-around final by just two places. She is aiming to become the first US gymnast to reach the all-around final since Valerie Zimring and Michelle Berube in 1984, when the event made its debut at the Games.

Competition format 

-Artistic: The best eight teams and the best 24 individual gymnasts, limited to two per country, will advance to the finals after the qualification rounds. The top eight athletes on each apparatus, also limited to two per country, will advance to their respective apparatus finals. 

-Trampoline: In both men's and women's competitions, the top eight trampolinists from from the qualifying rounds will advance to the following finals. 

-Rhythmic: In the individual all-around, the 10 gymnasts with the highest scores will advance to the all-around final. The results are determined by the sum of all four apparatus scores.

2024 USA Olympic Games rosters

Women's Artistic:

-Simone Biles - Spring, Texas

-Jade Carey - Phoenix, Arizona. 

-Jordan Chiles - Vancouver, Washington. 

-Suni Lee - St. Paul, Minnesota. 

-Hezly Rivera - Oradell, New Jersey. 

-Joscelyn Roberson - Texarkana, Texas*. 

-Leanne Wong - Overland Park, Kansas*. 

-Kaliya Lincoln - Frisco, Texas^. 

-Tiana Sumanasekera - Pleasanton, California^.

Team USA is already living in the Olympic Village. USA GYMNASTICS
Team USA is already living in the Olympic Village. USA GYMNASTICS

Men's Artistic: 

-Asher Hong - Tomball, Texas. 

-Paul Juda - Deerfield, Illinois. 

-Brody Malone - Aragon, Georgia. 

-Stephen Nedoroscik - Worcester, Massachusetts. 

-Frederick Richard - Stoughton, Massachusetts. 

-Shane Wiskus - Spring Park, Minnesota*. 

-Khoi Young - Bowie, Maryland*. 

-Patrick Hoopes -Lehi, Utah^. 

-Yul Moldauer - Arvada, Colorado^. 

-Donnell Whittenburg - Baltimore, Maryland^.

Rhythmic: 

-Evita Griskenas - Orland Park, Illinois. 

-Lili Mizuno - Northbrook, Illinois^.

Trampoline: 

-Aliaksei Shostak - Lafayette, Louisiana. 

-Jessica Stevens - Ellicott City, Maryland. 

-Nicole Ahsinger - Lafayette, Louisiana*. 

-Ruben Padilla - Bluffdale, Utah*.

*Travelling substitute. 

^Non-travelling substitute.