The USA Gymnastics Olympic Team 2024 could look familiar to the 2020 Games if things continue how they started in night one of the USA Women’s Olympic Trials.
Let’s just say the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was full of surprises. It started off in rotation one with two more top contenders for the Paris Olympic Team with injuries.
It ended with Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles, Suni Lee and Jade Carey – all Olympians from the Tokyo Games – on top as they head into night two of Olympic Trials on Sunday night.
Gymnastics Olympic Injury Report
- Skye Blakely is out of competition after tearing her Achilles during podium training on Wednesday. Blakely was a top prediction to make the Paris Olympic Team after coming in second at U.S. Championships.
- Kayla DiCello was injured in night one of Olympic Trials on vault. She was supposed to perform a Yurchenko double-full but instead did only a tuck and fell. She was carried off the mat and then taken off the floor in a wheelchair. USA Gymnastics later updated that she injured her Achilles and will be unable to compete on day two of trials.
- Shilese Jones, who has been nursing a shoulder injury, did not compete on vault after grabbing her knee during warmups. She was cleared by medical staff to compete on uneven bars and scored a big 14.675 – the highest bars score of the night. After bars, NBC updated that Jones was out for the rest of night one due to her knee.
1996 Gold Medalist Dominique Dawes Talks About Injuries
“That’s what’s so challenging about this sport of gymnastics,” explained 3-time Olympic Gymnast Dominique Dawes in an interview prior to Friday night’s Olympic Trials. “It takes a physical toll on the athletes. It’s a grind. They train over a decade of their childhood to get this one opportunity to represent their country.” Dawes was a member of the Magnificent Seven, the first USA Gymnastics Team to win a gold medal in the 1996 Games in Atlanta.
