A look at the U.S. teams competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics

Familiar professional athletes and Olympians hoping to continue their winning streaks make up many U.S. teams who are competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Take a look at who makes up the teams representing Team USA.Men's basketball teamTeam USA will go to the Paris Games as the favorite and the top-ranked men's basketball team in the world, thanks to a roster full of NBA superstars.The U.S. still hasn't had to make any changes to the roster since it was originally announced in April, though there are contingency plans in place at every position. The original 12 names remain unchanged: Kawhi Leonard, Tyrese Haliburton, Joel Embiid, Kevin Durant, LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Anthony Edwards, Jrue Holiday, Jayson Tatum, Devin Booker, Bam Adebayo and Anthony Davis.“We expect everybody to be good to go,” U.S. coach Steve Kerr said in late June. "We’ve been in touch with everyone, not just those three guys. ... We’ve been in communication constantly, so we expect all 12 guys to be ready to roll.”The group has seven players with Olympic gold medals; Durant has three, James has two, while Adebayo, Booker, Holiday, Tatum and Booker each have one. There is a still a chance the roster could change, if necessary. The roster was in flux before the Tokyo Games three years ago until just before the start of the competition.Women's basketball teamExperience was USA Basketball's major reason for excluding No. 1 WNBA draft pick Caitlin Clark from the roster, which includes seven players from the group that won gold in Tokyo — the seventh straight for the Americans.Diana Taurasi is returning to the Olympics for a record sixth time. Her Olympic career started when she was a WNBA rookie in the 2004 Athens Game, and now the 42-year-old will be on the team again. Other returners from the Tokyo Olympics are Breanna Stewart, A'ja Wilson, Chelsea Gray, Napheesa Collier, Jewell Loyd and Brittney Griner.Besides the returners, the Americans also added newcomers Kelsey Plum and Jackie Young, who helped the U.S. win the inaugural 3x3 gold medal at the Tokyo Games in 2021. Several first-time Olympians will join the team with Alyssa Thomas, Sabrina Ionescu and Kahleah Copper. All three played on the American team that won the World Cup in Australia in 2022.Women's gymnasticsSimone Biles headlines a U.S. women's gymnastics team filled with familiar faces eyeing a shot at redemption in Paris.Biles will be joined by reigning Olympic champion Sunisa Lee, 2020 floor exercise champion gold medalist Jade Carey, 2020 Olympic silver medalist Jordan Chiles and 16-year-old newcomer Hezly Rivera, who will find herself competing next to a couple of her idols as the Americans try to reclaim the spot atop the Olympic podium they ceded to Russia in Japan.It's the oldest women's gymnastics team the U.S. has ever taken to the Games.For decades, the U.S. women's Olympic program was powered by teenagers who would head to the Games, win a few medals then cede the spotlight to the next wave of talent.Those days are long gone.Biles' unique longevity — she will arrive in Paris as the oldest female U.S. team member since the 1950s — stands apart, but she's hardly the only 20-something who will be on the floor at Bercy Arena later this month.The easing of name, image and likeness rules around college athletes in recent years allowed Lee (21), Chiles (23) and Carey (24) to continue training and competing at the NCAA level while still being able to cash in on their Olympic success. It's a luxury that wasn't afforded the champions that came before them, from Carly Patterson to Nastia Liukin to Gabby Douglas, who had to choose between accepting endorsements or retaining their amateur status. Men's gymnastics Fred Richard will headline the five-man U.S. team with a legitimate chance to medal after winning the Olympic trials this year. Richard, known as “ Frederick Flips ” to his hundreds of thousands of social media followers, has spent years trying to nudge men's gymnastics toward the spotlight through creative viral videos that often include collaborations with athletes in other sports.The lights don’t get any brighter than the ones Richard and Olympic teammates Malone, Asher Hong, Paul Juda and Stephen Nedoroscik will compete under in Paris.The Americans have spent the last three years overhauling their program after finishing well off the podium at the Tokyo Olympics. They revamped their scoring system, offering bonus points at domestic meets for athletes who attempted more challenging skills. Juda and Hong, members of last year's world championship team, will join Malone and Richard as the core of what will be a relatively young American team. Nedoroscik is 25. Malone is 24. Juda turns 23 on July 7. Richard and Hong are all of 20. Khoi Young and Shane Wiskus will serve as the alternates. Wiskus, a member of the 2020 Olympic team, is retiring at the end of the competition season. Women's soccer teamThe team traveling to Paris is the youngest for the U.S. since 2008, signals a shift in the team as it looks toward the 2027 Women's World Cup under U.S. national team coach Emma Hayes. Alex Morgan, a three-time Olympian and two-time Women's World Cup winner, was the most notable absence on the 18-player roster.Goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher was included on the squad despite a recent thigh injury that kept her out of the team's last two matches. Naeher recently returned to play for her NWSL team, the Chicago Red Stars.Versatile veteran Crystal Dunn, who in recent years has played on the back line, is on the roster as a forward, along with Trinity Rodman, Sophia Smith, Mallory Swanson and 19-year-old Jaedyn Shaw. Hayes also selected goalkeeper Casey Murphy, while Jane Campbell was included among the team's four alternates, with midfielders Hal Harshfelt and Croix Bethune, and forward Lynn Williams. Hayes, who had been coaching English club Chelsea, was named the coach of the United States in November but finished the Women's Super League season. After her arrival in May, she coached the national team's matches against South Korea.Former coach Vlatko Andonovski resigned from the U.S. team following last year’s disappointing finish at the Women’s World Cup. Twila Kilgore led the team in the interim while awaiting Hayes' return, and now serves as an assistant coach.Ten players who were on the World Cup roster were included on the Olympic team. The United States has won four Olympic gold medals, more than any other team, but has not won gold since the 2012 London Games. The U.S. was eliminated by Sweden in the quarterfinals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games before earning the bronze in Tokyo.Men's soccer teamU.S. head coach Marko Mitrovic will showcase some of America's next generation of talent in Paris.He has turned to developing talents like Kevin Paredes and Paxten Aaronson, who are on the fringes of the senior team.The 21-year-old Paredes, who plays his club soccer with German team Wolfsburg, was the USA’s young player of the year in 2023 and his potential was spotted by Jay-Z's Roc Nation sports agency, which signed him up to its roster of clients that includes superstars like Vinicius Junior and Kevin De Bruyne.Unlike its women's team, the U.S. has never won gold in the men's soccer tournament at the Olympics. Its best performance was in 1904 — yes, 120 years ago — when club teams competed and it took silver and bronze at the St. Louis Games.It last featured in Beijing in 2008 and failed to advance beyond the group stage. The roster included future U.S. captain Michael Bradley, the once-promising Freddy Adu and veteran Brian McBride. Men's 3x3 basketball teamFormer NBA player Jimmer Fredette will lead the U.S. men's team, which will start against Serbia, the Tokyo Games bronze medalist. This will be the first time the U.S. men compete in Olympic 3x3. The men’s defending champion, Latvia, will face Lithuania in their opener.Fredette, Kareem Maddox, Canyon Barry and Dylan Travis piled up enough wins together last year to get USA Basketball qualified in men’s 3x3 for the Paris Olympics and will stay together to chase gold in France.The U.S. didn’t qualify for men’s 3x3 when the sport debuted at the Tokyo Games; the Americans won gold in women’s 3x3 that summer, as well as in traditional men’s and women’s basketball. Every team that USA Basketball has sent to an Olympics — all 31 of them — has won a medal, 26 of them gold.The 3x3 game is played on a half court with a 12-second shot clock and play is super-fast. Baskets are worth one or two points, and the winner is either the first team to 21 points or the leader when the 10-minute clock expires. Games rarely take the full 10 minutes.Women's 3x3 basketball teamThe U.S. women will begin the defense of their Olympic 3x3 basketball title against Germany. Dearica Hamby is the newest addition to the team's roster, replacing her Los Angeles Sparks teammate Cameron Brink, who recently tore the ACL in her left knee. “My heart breaks for her. When she got the news she made it and I got the news I didn’t originally, we cried together,” Hamby told The Associated Press in an interview. “It’s kind of an ironic situation. I’m sure if she wanted to have anybody replace her, she’d want it to be me.”Hamby joins Hailey Van Lith, Cierra Burdick and Rhyne Howard on the squad that will compete in Paris. The U.S. won the inaugural 3x3 Olympic gold medal in Tokyo in 2021. Women's beach volleyball pairsKelly Cheng and Sara Hughes are the reigning world champions, hoping to keep a streak of U.S. medals on the women’s side alive.Former LSU stars Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss are going to their first Olympics.At 5 feet, 6 inches, Nuss is set to become the shortest U.S. Olympic beach volleyball player since Barbra Fontana in 1996.The height difference between Nuss and Kloth, who is 6 feet, 4 inches, is the largest for a U.S. Olympic beach team.Men's beach volleyball pairsTeam USA's Andy Benesh and Miles Partain are ranked No. 4 in the world and most recently finished third at the Elite 16 tournament in Ostrava.The second men's pair to qualify for Paris is former NBA player Chase Budinger and partner Miles Evans, who started to play together in 2023 and have begun working their way up the beach volleyball rankings ever since.