The 2024 Summer Olympics are exactly one year away, with the world's best athletes set to converge in Paris for what they − and all of us − hope will be a return to normalcy.
After the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and 2022 Beijing Olympics were hindered by the COVID-19 pandemic, with strict masking requirements and the complete or partial absence of spectators at stadiums, Paris 2024 organizers are hoping these Games will represent a fresh start. And for a wave of up-and-coming athletes, they will also represent a new opportunity.
Team USA is likely to feature plenty of well-known stars, from Noah Lyles and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone on the track to Katie Ledecky in the pool and maybe even Simone Biles in the gym.