The U.S. will send a full rhythmic gymnastics team to the Olympic Games for the first time since the discipline entered the program 37 years ago.
Led by 21-year-old veteran Laura Zeng, the nation’s most accomplished rhythmic gymnast, the team has the potential to leave Tokyo with historic results.
Zeng finished top-10 at the past four world championships, including a U.S.-record sixth place in 2017, and won six event medals in World Cup competition. When she competes Aug. 6-7, Zeng will become just the second two-time U.S. Olympic rhythmic gymnast.
She was 11th in Rio, two years after taking bronze at the Youth Olympics, and any improvement on that in Tokyo would be the highest finish ever by an American.