Paris Olympics 2024 updates: Hezly Rivera shocks Simone Biles and Sunisa Lee to become youngest gymnast in Team USA
gymnast to join the USA women's gymnastics team flying to Paris for the upcoming Summer Olympics this July. Hezly Rivera, aged just 16, hails from Oradell, New Jersey, and struck fortune during her Olympic Trials in Minnesota where she finished fifth overall to qualify for the Olympic Games as the youngest gymnast.
Who is Hezly Rivera?
Rivera will be competing alongside some leading Olympic veterans in her team, including Simone Biles, who has bagged four golds at the Olympics already, and Sunisa Lee, who is a 2021 All Around gold medalist, according to a NY Post report.
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Hezly was not among the probables who could be seen as qualifying for the Paris Olympics but her overall performance at the Olympic trials shocked everyone as they were awed by her performance on the beam, with a stellar 27.975 point across two balance beam performances, which put Biles and Lee under pressure at a point. She also tied for the top score with Joscelyn Roberson, yet another iconic gymnast of Team USA.
Hezly already welcomed warmly by her Team USA mates
Biles and and the others in the women's gymnastics team have already welcomed Hezly warmly into the fold, having team team lunches and gelling up over swimming pool sessions, followed by a Fourth of July celebration, according to NY Post. Hezly has stated that she feels surreal after everything fell in place, as she achieved something she had always dreamt of since the age of 8.
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