The 2024 Paris Olympics will be a quest for the United States women’s gymnastics team to get back to the top. The Americans won gold medal in the women’s team all-around competition in 2012 and 2016, the first time that Team USA had won back-to-back titles. But at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, athletes from Russia got the gold medal and the American took home silver.
The final USA Women’s Olympic Gymnastics team has been announced after the conclusion of the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ohio sports betting operators will have plentiful wagering options posted for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The Olympics are scheduled for July 26 to Aug. 11. Gymnastics events (officially called artistic gymnastics, to set them apart from rhythmic gymnastics) are scheduled July 27 to Aug. 5.
Here is who made the roster, as released by USA Gymnastics:
Athlete | Hometown | Additional Team |
Simone Biles | Spring, TX | World Champions Centre |
Jade Carey | Phoenix, AZ | Oregon State University |
Jordan Chiles | Vancouver, WA | World Champions Centre |
Sunisa Lee | St. Paul, MN | Midwest Gymnastics Center |
Hezly Rivera | Oradell, NJ | WOGA Gymnastics |
Joscelyn Roberson* | Texarkana, TX | Texas/World Champions Centre |
Leanne Wong* | Overland Park, KS | University of Florida |
* Traveling alternates
BetOhio.com will be keeping an eye on the Olympics, as will operators of Ohio sportsbook apps. Simone Biles is the headliner for the USA Gymnastics team. Biles was born in Columbus but spent most of her life in Texas.
She is regarded as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, female American gymnast ever. She won four gold medals at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, including one as a part of that team title. She also was first in the individual all-around, floor exercise and vault. In the 2020 Games she won bronze in the balance beam and was again part of a team medal, this time silver.
Biles won her eighth U.S. all-around title at the 2023 U.S. Gymnastics Championships in San Jose, California, extending her own record. No other American, man or woman, has won as many. And in June, at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Minnesota, Biles scored 58.325 in the all-around finals to win the event by nearly three points.
The entire U.S. Olympic team has -500 odds at Caesars Ohio Sportsbook to earn the most gold medals in the 2024 Paris Games. China is second at +375.
Going into the trials, our exclusive odds to make the team had two candidates at -100000 odds (a 99.9% chance) to make the team: Biles and Shilese Jones.
Unfortunately, Jones won’t be in Paris. The 21-year-old out of Seattle injured her knee while warming up for the vault competition at the Olympic Trials. Jones won the silver medal in the all-around at the 2023 U.S. Championships and earned the gold medal in the uneven bars for the second consecutive year.
The four women joining Biles on Team USA are Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Sunisa Lee and Hezly Rivera. Two alternates were named: Joscelyn Roberson and Leanne Wong. Had “the field” been a wagering option from operators offering Ohio sportsbook promotions, bettors could have cashed that ticket because Rivera wasn’t on our odds board last month.
Carey won the vault competition at the Olympic Trials with a score of 28.774, edging out Chiles. Lee – the reigning Olympic champion in the All-Around – was victorious in the uneven bars at 29.275, more than half a point better than Biles. Lee earned a bronze medal in that event at the Tokyo Games.
Rivera, at 16, is the youngest member of the entire U.S. Olympic team in any sport. She tied Roberson first in the balance beam at 27.975 at the Trials. Biles (29.575) won the floor exercise, followed by Carey and Chiles. Carey won gold in that event in Tokyo.
USA Today photo by Kyle Terada
During the trials, Shilese Jones injured her left knee on a warmup vault Day 1 of the U.S. Olympic Trials. Jones was considered a lock for the team until this injury.
On July 28, the Olympic Women’s Qualifications begin at 3:30 a.m. Eastern. Pending the results of the qualifications, the Women’s Team Final – which is a medal event – will occur July 30 at 12:15 a.m. Eastern.
The USA team has produced numerous legendary Olympians: Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Shannon Miller, Mary Lou Retton, Nastia Liukin, Aly Raisman, Shawn Johnson and Alicia Sacramone, to name a few. Biles is widely recognized as the best U.S. Women’s Olympic gymnast, making her an exciting name to watch as she competes in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The USA Women’s Gymnastics team won gold in the Olympics most recently in 2016 with the impressive team known as the Final Five. Before that, the Americans won gold in 1996 and 2012. At the most recent Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the team won silver.
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Ohio native Jim Tomlin has 30 years of experience in journalism, mostly in sports. He lends his expertise to BetOhio.com as a writer and editor after previous experience at the Tampa Bay Times, FanRag, Saturday Down South and Saturday Tradition.
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