The GIST: With officially four weeks (!!!) to go until the Paris 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony, roster selection season is in full swing. This weekend’s serving up thrilling U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials and U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials action. Team USA, loading.
👟 Track & field trials race into final weekend: As a reminder, the goal for each competitor is to finish on the podium: only the top three from each final make the Olympic team (if they also meet the Olympic qualifying standards). This weekend’s must-see races? First, tonight’s 10:50 p.m. ET men’s 110m hurdles final, featuring defending silver medalist Grant Halloway.
Then Sunday at 7:29 p.m. ET, it’ll be all eyes on the women’s 400m hurdles and reigning gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, who set a world record the last time she raced the event at TrackTown, USA. Blink and you might just miss her.
🤸 Simone Biles headlines USA Gymnastics field: Where else to start than with the GOAT? The most decorated gymnast of all time is largely expected to punch her ticket to Paris and clinch a third Games appearance. She’ll be joined by four additional women and the five-person men’s squad, along with four Olympic alternates.
The top all-around finishers from this weekend (women’s and men’s) automatically qualify, while the rest are chosen by a selection committee, which takes this weekend’s performances and past events into account. And this team is tough to make — they don’t call it gym-nice-stics, after all.
Aside from Biles, competitors to watch include six-time world medalist Shilese Jones, reigning Olympic all-around champ Suni Lee, and, for the men, U.S. all-around champ Brody Malone.
