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Which Gymnasts Will Make Team USA?

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The 2024 Olympics are almost upon us. Trials are taking place around the world to determine who will represent their countries in Paris. And next week, all eyes will be on USA gymnastics trials in Minneapolis – as 16 women compete for one of five coveted spots on Team USA. Olympic superstar gymnast Simone Biles is looking to make it to her 3rd Olympics, but alongside her are 15 other women with just as much a shot to make the team as her. So today, our Olympics expert D’Arcy Maine joins us to break down how we got to trials and why this Olympic team might be the hardest to make in the history of the sport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, Darcy, Maine, where?

0:03.8

I think I asked you this question every time we speak.

0:05.8

Where are you right now?

0:07.8

I am in Indianapolis for the Olympic swimming trials,

0:11.5

so just getting my Olympics fix in this week so we can do it again

0:14.3

next week and Darcy the Paris Olympics are just a few weeks away and one of our

0:22.4

favorite sports gymnastics trials for the celebrated

0:27.2

U.S. women gymnastics team are coming up next week in Minneapolis.

0:31.0

What makes this Olympic trial so unique from previous years?

0:37.0

It's a great question to start with.

0:39.2

I mean, there's a couple things that make these trials really stand out but first I mean we have to

0:43.6

talk about Simone Biles right?

0:46.6

Double Twisting double back.

0:47.6

Oh money!

0:51.6

Just keep making history, Simone Biles.

0:55.0

Her continued other-worldliness,

1:01.0

she's looking to make her third Olympic team, and at this point she's really a lot to do so

1:05.6

It'll be interesting to see what she does at trials, but then that leaves us with four open spots and there are so many gymnasts who could make this team, have the talent, have the skill to make this team, and frankly, for any other country in the world would probably make the team.

1:21.0

So the depth of talent that's going to be on display is truly

1:24.4

mind-blowing. Including Simone, there are four former Olympians and three

1:29.1

individual gold medalists buying to make this team, which would have been almost inconceivable a decade ago, and there are several others with international experience and success, and five of the 16 women have competed at the NCAA level, which is also something we really haven't seen in previous

1:47.1

old Bic cycles to this extent. So it's just a fascinating group of women, and I think just like you,

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