Shannon Miller and Carly Patterson to announce Olympic team
Shannon Miller, a seven-time Olympic medalist, and Carly Patterson, the 2004 Olympic all-around champion, will announce the 2024 women's Olympic team.
Chants of 'USA!'
The crowd is chanting "USA" as it awaits an Olympic team.
Biles is the oldest female U.S. Olympic gymnast since the ’50s
At 27 years old, Biles will be the oldest female gymnast representing the U.S. at the Olympic Games since the 1950s.
If she gets a gold medal in the women's all-around, she'll be the oldest to do it in 72 years, after the Soviet Union’s Maria Gorokhovskaya got the gold at age 30 in 1952.
She could also become the oldest American woman to win an Olympic gymnastics medal in 76 years, the oldest American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics after Aly Raisman got two in in 2016, and potentially the oldest woman to earn an Olympic gold medal in 60 years.
Who won the battle for the fifth spot?
Rivera, Sumanasekera, Roberson and Wong were the top contenders for the fifth spot ahead of today's competition.
Rivera finished fifth in the all-around and won the balance beam, so she has the edge when it comes to the numbers.
However, Olympic selection can be unpredictable. It will ultimately be up to the selection committee to decide whether to take Rivera, who is not only young but also relatively inexperienced, to Paris.
The top five all-around finishers
- Biles 117.225
- Lee 111.675
- Chiles 111.425
- Carey 111.350
- Rivera 111.150
Anything can happen in gymnastics. That's where Olympic alternates come in.
After a slate of injuries plagued top contenders Jones, DiCello and Blakely leading into Olympic trials, four of the five spots on the women's team roster appear to be locked in — leaving several once-wild-card gymnasts vying for just one place on the official Paris 2024 squad.
But the two traveling alternate slots could be just as, if not more, consequential for Team USA.
Less than a month ago, Blakely and DiCello were standing next to Biles on the national championships podium. In the past week, both ruptured their Achilles tendons, dashing their Paris dreams.
In gymnastics, anything can happen.
Nothing highlights that more than when Biles withdrew from all but one event final at the Tokyo Olympics. MyKayla Skinner and Jade Carey sprang into action, each winning individual event medals on vault and floor, respectively.
Though Skinner and Carey did not compete in the team final, if a gymnast were injured in the lead-up to Paris before the start of competition, one of the traveling alternates could be America's only hope.
As Hezly Rivera, Tiana Sumanasekera, Leanne Wong, Kaliya Lincoln and Joscelyn Roberson battle it out for the final official spot, the selection committee may consider the alternate selections as an equally consequential piece of the team puzzle.
On the men's side, a computer program used math to determine the five-man team that would compete in Paris, disappointing some fans when Shane Wiskus was left off the team after he placed third with one of the best meets of his life.
But while a computer determined the roster, humans on the selection committee hand-selected Wiskus and Khoi Young as alternates, knowing they would be strong competitors should either have to step in.
The clock starts now
The Olympic selection committee is now deliberating. It has about 20 minutes to reach a decision.
That's why Carey's an Olympic champ
The reigning Olympic gold medalist on floor, Jade Carey, was the perfect anchor for these trials.
She hit a stellar routine for a 14.150.
See you in Paris, Simone!
Simone Biles has mathematically clinched an automatic spot on the Paris Olympic team, scoring 117.225 across both days.
She is the first American female gymnast since Dominique Dawes to make three Olympic teams.
A teary Chiles sticks the landing
Chiles had some negative momentum going into the final rotation, but she turned it around and then some.
She danced to Beyoncé and hit her tumbling passes like a pro, scoring a 14.100 on floor.