On the final day of competition at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team Trials, Simone Biles secured a spot on her third Olympic team. She is just the fourth American woman to make three U.S. Olympic gymnastics teams, and at age 27, she is the oldest women’s gymnast to make an Olympic team in 72 years.
Biles earned an automatic berth by winning the all-around title at Trials (117.225).
"I knew I wasn't done after the performances in Tokyo," Biles said. "So just getting back in the gym, and then working hard and just trusting the process with Cecile and Laurent (Landi) - I knew I'd be back."
Joining Biles in Paris will be three of her Tokyo Olympic teammates: Suni Lee (111.675), Jordan Chiles (111.425) and Jade Carey (111.350). First-year senior Hezly Rivera (111.150) will round out the team in what will be her first trip to the Games.
With Biles (2016 Olympic all-around champion) and Lee (2020 Tokyo Olympic all-around) both on the team, this also marks the first time in history that an Olympic gymnastics team has included two Olympic all-around champions.
Coming into the evening, the door was wide open for an athlete who wasn't initially favored to make the Olympic team to step up and seize the moment. In a matter of days, the U.S. team lost several top contenders, including six-time world medalist Shilese Jones, who withdrew from the competition after only competing on the uneven bars on night one. Her current injury status is unknown.
Skye Blakely, 2024 U.S. national all-around silver medalist, pulled out of the competition after injuring her Achilles in the practice session leading up to the competition. Then Tokyo Olympic alternate Kayla DiCello went down on her vault at the start of the competition on night one. It was later revealed to be another Achilles injury.