US National Team + Olympic Trials : Full Announcement video - US Championships 2024

[@Nzher88]

Congratulations! So happy for such extraordinarily talented ladies. We are rooting for you from the USA.

[@aprodutube]

I look at this team and I think that this is what America is all about. Great job, ladies. And all the best in Paris!

[@patsk8872]

Can you elaborate? Not that I have any problem with the team, but is "this what America is about" BECAUSE it's diverse? What if it just so happened that more of them were white, then that stops being ok? If a lot of them were white, then it's not America? Shouldn't it just be about the best people going, not what color they are? But if it's about race, 71% of Americans are white, so if race represents "America" then wouldn't the team only "represent America" if it were 71% white, 12% black, 7% asian and so on? And then "THAT'S AMERICA!!" I already know the unfortunate answer, I just want to see you try to navigate it. BTW I love Simone Biles because AFAIK she doesn't try to divide people by implying a team represents America because it's (in this case disproportionately, according to population statistics) diverse. On the contrary, she supports her teammates regardless of race.

[@karsamr9196]

Simone, Shilese, Suni, Skye, Jordan, Kayla

[@luvhh7]

No Jade?

[@trinigrl09]

I like the choices but I thought the olympic team was 5 spots not 6?

[@pamcatcl]

Shilese had a health problem in Classic Competition

[@k.b.nicole2428]

Strong lineup for sure. I hope for the same

[@trinigrl09]

@@pamcatcl She did but she withdrew to focus on rehab in time for the olympic trials

[@terrencetaylor8196]

Simone is so tiny.

[@Glycam]

So basically WOGA and WCC have the best gymnasts

[@alexi8741]

Simone, Shilese, Skye, Suni, Jade/Jordan/Kayla tossup for 5th spot as a strong all arounder on floor and vault

[@LuckyLiger-zg7hx]

Simone is so tiny! 😱🥰🥰

[@aliciamcdonald7105]

When you see her standing among the others like this it is when it really hits you how small she is. To think while she is the smallest she is also the most powerful. AMAZING!

[@johnp4471]

Great things come in small packages

[@johncrane1894]

Hopefully she won’t get “the twisties” again

[@aliciamcdonald7105]

@@johncrane1894 And hopefully you CRETIN will be able to find your way back into the HOLE you CRAWLED OUT OF to make this comment.

[@aliciamcdonald7105]

@@johncrane1894 And hopefully you CRETIN can find your way back into the HOLE you CRAWLED OUT OF to make this comment.

[@georgiasmith7615]

No cowboy hats this year. The men still wore them, but I heard the women didn’t want to wear them.

[@cottoncandycloudsart]

the junior women still wore them

[@lamdao1242]

Why?

[@ctalcantara1700]

Congratulations to all! Is there a Gym Club Team Championships? If not, there should be one, and I would love to watch it.

[@nathanlosinski824]

Congratulations Ladies!

[@StargateFandomPodcast]

I love all of them!!!! so much congratulations!!!

[@jenniferjanssen9876]

Hope jade carry makes it!!!

[@DJcyberslash]

Yeah. She gets scored so low this quad

[@tomdebeck8150]

Jade has a nice style

[@meehill181]

Soooo proud of THEM. HARDWORK IS PAYING OFF.

[@karoonboomie2813]

Congratulations Ladies!! Way to Go!! Stay Strong, Focused & Determined and go get that victory for Paris! We’ve got the BEST OF THE BEST representing the USA, now it’s time to show the world what you got! Wwhhhoooaaahhh!!!!!! ♥️🤍💙💋🇺🇸🏆☝🏻

[@arlisaburkes82]

Congratulations Team USA 🇺🇸

[@AmyMillan2315]

WTG YALL DESERVE IT❤❤❤❤❤

[@skaterboy-cz9wj]

The us has such depth. They are going to be hard to beat in ladies. Bikes could fall twice and still win. Sunisa Lee defending oly champ might not mske the team

[@DJcyberslash]

Team: Simone, Shilese, Suni, Jade, Jordan Alternates: Leanne, Kayla

[@williammials6080]

SUNI????

[@MiNNi0La]

Skye will make that team for vault!

[@MiNNi0La]

@@chloebrower2598 I love Jordan's sportsmanship, but I don't see her consistency as much as I see it in Jade's overall performance. I think that's where Jade will stand out for the selection committee. Honestly tho, ALL of them deserve to go 😉.

[@angeliquecantrell338]

Congratulations to all 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@kayfisher7025]

Congratulations ladies you are all wonderful 🎉❤🇺🇸

[@rauby02]

I think it ‘s amazing that Jordan ranked 5th all around after 2 falls

[@chloebrower2598]

I’m really rooting for her to make the team! She has the skills and even has room to upgrade. In my opinion, she will definitely make it to Paris. The only uncertainty is if she’ll be on the team or a traveling alternate.

[@donaldvanderlinden1245]

IT LOOKS LIKE THIS YEAR'S OLYMPICS IS ALL ABOUT , VETERANS JUST ONE MORE TIME ! LET'S SEE HOW WE DO AGAINST THOSE YOUNG WHIPPER SNAPPERS !

[@semoneg2826]

Its not about age but about skill and experience...... If the younger ones were better am sure they won't qualify

[@GoodNCrazyNews]

Jocelyn Hernandez whats your tea with Simone?

[@luvnatexo]

congrats yall!!!

[@Matthew-jh6oh]

I am becoming such a Tiana stan.

[@greeneyes12346]

So sad sky got injured during training

[@Kawale04]

So from here are they going to compete against each other in a competition to go to the Olympics?

[@christa-ccb]

Olympic Trials next and is at the end of the month. These girls in this video represent the National Team for this year based mostly (with the exception of Shilese and Kaliya) on their results from this competition (Nationals.)

[@chloebrower2598]

There will be another competition like this one (the Olympic Trials), but the top five athletes at that meet won’t necessarily all make the Olympic team. The top all around athlete will automatically get a spot on the team, but the selection committee picks the rest based off of different factors. Usually the team will consist of 2-3 all around athletes, and the rest of the team is filled out with specialists to bring in high scores on individual events. So yes, they’re competing against each other, but even if they don’t score at the very top, they can still make the team :)

[@semoneg2826]

​@@chloebrower2598 Ok thanks

[@alysontaylor7395]

Good luck ladies in Paris all the best from the USA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@egyptian_thoth]

I remember only watching Dominique Dawes being underrated and overlooked for years to seeing a like a brown skinned girls represent the US. Way to go.

[@CurlyBoyChuck]

Dawes was never underrated, she was one of the top gymnasts of her era and was national champion in 94 winning every single event during an era where Shannon and Zmeskal were dominant, she would have won the worlds in 94 and 95 had she not fallen on vault, she also had a chance at the Olympic AA championship in 96 had she not fallen on floor. I don’t remember her ever being overlooked. Unfortunately her mistakes at major championships held her back from winning but she was always recognized as one of the greats and still is.

[@Jurnee2Peace]

Don't forget Betty Okino.

[@Selfworthserenity]

She was never overlooked. Please. She made the team and represented the country for Christ sake.

[@MonikaCARRILLO-x1k]

Way to go ladies!!!!!

[@peacefulway3]

What a gr8 team

[@euniceofori4978]

Wwoooowwwwww I’m so proud of the diversity of this team! Such a proud proud moment

[@TM-kc4xq]

Let's go team USA!! Congratulations ALL!!

[@LittleMixLuvr]

the GAGE gymnasts are wearing Leanne's bows!

[@marjoriecoleman8280]

Congratulations ladies, soo proud of y’all! 🎉🎉🎉🏆 Great representation of gymnastics for Paris! ❤🤍💙🇺🇸

[@pyroglyphies]

SIMONE, SUNI, JORDAN, SKYE, TIANA/KAYLA, JADE (man i wish Shilese was able to qualify) for USA OLYMPIC TEAM

[@lyd2460]

She will petition

[@tammyreeves2556]

She will be able to compete for the Olympic team at trials

[@0xTRellyx0]

I wonder who's parents were videoing this?

[@uravghuman]

Are they paid from training and competing?

[@terimunger5784]

Congratulations ladies!🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊

[@katerabinak8503]

Simone

[@imhereforitall9218]

So Gabby Douglas did not make it or is there still a chance for her to try out for the Olympic team?

[@WorldGymnasticsMemories]

She didn't make it. She didn't compete at US Championships

[@imhereforitall9218]

@@WorldGymnasticsMemories So there is no way for her to qualify for the US Olympic trials at this point?

[@spazkaz8585]

No, the road to Paris ends with these ladies here. There is an option to petition to trials, but I don’t think Gabby meets the criteria. She did say she might make a run for 2028, so the door is wide open.

[@imhereforitall9218]

@@spazkaz8585 2028? She'll be like 32 yrs old by then. The talent I saw out there for the younger ones was insane not to the mention the ones that will appear by then. It was a nice thought Gabby but may this was too lofty of a goal to complete or she waited to late to start training. Maybe she'll be a coach somewhere.

[@spazkaz8585]

I’m not in the business of suggesting people not do what they enjoy. She missed gym and also realized she wasn’t that young girl from 2012 and if she wants to dedicate an oly quad to testing her potential who are me to say that she shouldn’t?

[@Jurnee2Peace]

From Betty Okino and Dominique Dawes to Gabby Douglass to Simone Biles to Jordan Chiles , Sky Blakely, Shilese Jones and many more.

[@jasonwong4448]

0:28 she don't like her

[@RLS1]

Who?

[@semoneg2826]

You saw all that on your video

[@AmyMillan2315]

Simone looks bored lol❤❤❤

[@leolamaelong]

I think she's just tired but she's a darn good job

[@AmyMillan2315]

@@leolamaelong I know her facial expressions are so entertaining 😂

[@luvhh7]

That's what happens when you have a whole husband waiting at home for ya!🤣

[@Kawale04]

@@luvhh7😂

[@williammials6080]

She OLD

[@williammials6080]

No Suni??????

[@lorellrogers1216]

Sunisa Lee is Suni

[@gabrielramiro2220]

is trinity thomas out of the trials?

[@denalowry8710]

She got hurt - Trinity

[@saragrant9749]

That is such a shame, she had a real shot at making it from what she’d shown up to then. Sad she will likely never get a shot at the Olympics.

[@justlina2769]

@@saragrant9749 Did I miss something? I didn't think she had any success going back to elite

[@saragrant9749]

@@justlina2769 she actually had a really great looking bars and beam set- in comparison to several others. Her vault I didn’t really see much of, and her floor wasn’t half bad. I noted “a shot,” not necessarily that she was a lock for the team. It would certainly have been nice to see her at least make the Olympic trials, but I don’t think at this point it’ll ever happen.

[@justlina2769]

@@saragrant9749 I just didn't ever see a score from her that was remotely top tier

[@amypearsall]

How did Shilese Jones make the team, even though she dropped out from the championship?

[@marydecker450]

She petitioned in.

[@user-bw3fl7fj9w]

Based on past history of competitions

[@lilactuliee6953]

She's resting a shoulder injury.

[@christinamonica3]

She's that girl

[@RobertJohnson-bj5lk]

I appreciate that we now live in the 🏆”Everybody gets a participation trophy”🏆 era, but how many athletes is Team USA allowed to bring to Paris to actually compete???

[@georgiasmith7615]

5 women get to go to Paris. Not everyone gets a participation trophy. These were the women who were chosen at the national championships to go on to the Olympic Trials. Not everyone who competed at the Championships made the National Team, and qualified for the Olympic Trials. To use a football analogy, it is like how only a certain number of teams make it to the playoffs from the original 32, but only 2 make it to the Super Bowl.

[@RobertJohnson-bj5lk]

@@georgiasmith7615. The “Trials” before the official Olympic Trials. Thank you for explaining. Kind of like the NFL Combine Workout. Not every athlete gets invited to it, and not every athlete there gets drafted during the NFL draft.

[@georgiasmith7615]

To be invited to the National Championships you have to either have been selected for the previous year’s World Championship team or achieve a minimum score, think it is 51.0 in the all around at preliminary competitions.

[@brynneholt1990]

They work try all season to qualify for the US championship, then from there, 12 people get to go to trials. Some people have a strong enough track record to petition for a spot on the team without competing in the US due to injury or illness. 5 people will make the Olympic team with about 3 alternates. 2 people are pretty much a lock assuming they stay healthy (knock on wood). Then they have to fill the team with 3 more people who they think will achieve the best scores. Unlike in, say, 1996, where they dropped the lowest scores and many people performed each apparatus, 3 gymnasts will go on each apparatus, and they’re score will count, so the selection committee will be looking for specialists. Far from “everybody gets a trophy”, US Women’s gymnastics is DEEP, and some very talented, deserving gymnasts will not make the Olympic team. Individual gold medalists from the last Olympics may not make this team. One of the handful of lesser known gymnasts may peak at the right time and surprise us. It appears that one person from the past world championship team did not even make trials. This is going to be brutal. I’ve been devastated for the people who won’t make it since, like, October.

[@k.b.nicole2428]

5 and an alternate

[@Teresa-ob7oe]

Wait until they see the othe gymnasts in other countries. America has gotten used to mediocrity. Those routines were c+ at best. Except Simone she's going to have to do better too. Good luck

[@semoneg2826]

Last Olympics they said the same thing and they won...America always select a powerful team...they did it for the past few years and won so the selectors knows what they are doing

[@deecal1021]

Yeah, okay.

[@aarondavis2258]

Simone literally has points, not tenths above the rest of the competition in the world. No other woman in the world has a 7.1 start value on floor. She was literally the World Champion last year & has won her 9th Championship title. Suni Lee currently has the highest start value on Beam. And they still won the Silver Team medal without their key-player Simone at last year’s Olympics. Let’s not do this lol. The rest of the world is looking good, the Americans are still dominant.

[@skaterboy-cz9wj]

WEll lest we forget Russia is not competing so that will help USA domination.

[@lamdao1242]

I’m pretty sure the coaches & managers of every competing country have studied what the other countries gymnasts are doing and learning from each other. I’m sure they are aware of improvements in the other teams. All these countries including the USA are sending excellent teams. The competition between the countries will all be close - the difference just a mere few points. So NO the USA team is NOT mediocre compared to other countries’ teams. All have improved and all major competitors are excellent.

[@Welpskee]

Simone’s side eye 😂😂😂😂