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 a 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 Americans took home silver.
Before we get to France, though, the members of the U.S. delegation must be chosen. And Minneapolis will be the place where that happens, as the U.S. Olympic Team Trials are set for June 27-30 at the Target Center.
There won’t be Minnesota sports betting in time for the 2024 Paris Olympics, but there will still be plenty of excitement around the Games. With that in mind, we created odds for who will make the U.S. women’s gymnastics team in France this summer. The Paris 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.
See the USA Gymnastics website for event details.
Simone Biles is regarded as one of the greatest women, if not the greatest woman, ever to compete in gymnastics. 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. At age 26 (she turned 27 last month), Biles also became the oldest American woman ever to win the all-around. She is a prohibitive favorite in our odds at -6000, which is a 98.4% implied probability, to make this year’s Olympic team.
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Shilese Jones is about as much of a lock as Biles, with -5000 odds (a 98.0% probability). 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. Jones will turn 22 during the Paris Olympics.
The other three gymnasts who we tip to be on Team USA in Paris are Jade Carey (-750 odds, 88.2% probability), Sunisa Lee (-450, 81.8%) and Kayla DiCello (-150, 60%). Our picks to be alternate members of the team are Jordan Chiles (-600 odds to be an alternate, or an 85.7% probability) and veteran Gabby Douglas (-450, 81.8%).
The bronze medalist in the all-around at the 2023 U.S. Championships, Leanne Wong, has +125 odds to make the team as an alternate.
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The final roster for the Paris 2024 Olympics has not been announced. The official roster will be released after the Olympic Trials, set for June 27-30, 2024, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Historically, teams consisted of only five U.S. gymnasts and two alternates. However, in the Tokyo Olympics, the format changed, allowing for a six-person group and two alternates. It is largely assumed there will only be five main and two alternate spots available for this year’s team, but the official announcement will come after the trials are completed. There is a possibility for the official team structure to change based on the results.
The USA team has produced numerous legendary Olympians to date. To name a few: Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Shannon Miller, Mary Lou Retton, Nastia Liukin, Aly Raisman, Shawn Johnson and Alicia Sacramone. Biles is widely recognized as the best U.S. Women’s Olympic Gymnast, making her an exciting name to watch as she competes for the 2024 Paris Olympics team.
The last time the USA Women’s Gymnastics team won gold in the Olympics was in 2016 with the impressive team known as the Final Five. Before that, the USA team won gold in 1996 and 2012. In the most recent summer Olympics, the team won silver.
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Jim Tomlin is a contributing editor for MinnesotaBets.com. Jim has 30-plus years of experience writing and editing stories about sports, gambling and the intersection of those two industries. He has worked at the Tampa Bay Times, FanRag, Saturday Down South and Saturday Tradition and now lends his expertise to MinnesotaBets.com, among other sites.
