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The United States of America (USA), represented by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from July 26 to August 11, 2024. U.S. athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, except for the 1980 edition in Moscow, when America led a sixty-six-nation ...
According to the list, 631 athletes will represent the United States at the 2024 Olympics, the most of any country. Around 11,000 athletes participated in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, ...
2024 [23] Nikki Hiltz Δ United States: Athletics: 2024 [24] Ashley Hoffman Δ United States: Hockey: 2024 [6] Marleen Jochems Δ Netherlands: Hockey: 2024 [6] Grace Joyce Δ United States: Rowing: 2024 [15] Maëlle Lakrar Δ France: Football: 2024 [25] Inès Lardeur Δ France: Hockey: 2024 [6] Lauren Δ Brazil: Football: 2024: Originally an ...
Swimmer Michael Phelps and President George W. Bush on August 10, 2008, at the National Aquatic Center in Beijing.Phelps is the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time. [11] [12] Dara Torres is the third-most decorated female American Olympic athlete after Jenny Thompson and Katie Ledecky, celebrated not only for her athletic achievements but also for defying age norms in competitive sports.
Jun 27, 2024; Eugene, OR, USA; Courtney Wayment (left) and Marisa Howard place second and third in the women’s steeplechase in 9:06.50 and 9:07.14 during the US Olympic Team Trials at Hayward Field.
The four-time defending Olympic champion United States and 2023 World Cup winner Germany are among eight confirmed in the 12-team men’s tournament. ... some 10,500 athletes from more than 200 ...
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
Paris 2024 was the first Olympics in history to reach full gender parity on the field of play, with equal numbers of male and female athletes. [12] The United States topped the medal table for the fourth consecutive Summer Games and 19th time overall, with 40 gold and 126 total medals. [13]