Paris Olympics 2024: Rocket scientists, engineers among top US athletes participating, all you need to know

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Team USA, brawns and brains will come together this year at the Paris Olympics, as the country's contingent boasts of rocket scientists, engineers, dieticians, which is rather uncommon when it comes to the teams being sent from other countries. The United States boasts of a holistic and overall development of its students, as well as its sportsmen, and this time, at the Paris Olympics 2024, this will be vividly visible.

Gabby Thomas holds top-notch degrees from Ivy League schools, other than athletic medals

According to USA Today, there are as many as ten Olympians who are going to Paris not just as sportsmen but achievers in different fields of profession. Gabby Thomas, for example, is a track and field athlete of Team USA but also has a Harvard undergraduate degree in neurobiology, which is rather uncommon for sportsmen. If this was not enough, Thomas also has a Master’s degree from the University of Texas in public health, says USA Today.

Canyon Barry, Sunny Choi, LeBron James among the basketballers who have shone in other professions too

Canyon Barry, who is a 3x3 basketball player, is currently enroute Paris but his resume boasts of him being an engineer with a renowned aerospace and defense company. Meanwhile, Sunny Choi, who is taking part in the breakdancing sporting event at Paris, possesses a University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business degree. She, in fact, became the first woman from the world of business to take part in the Olympics.

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