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As the kick off with the opening ceremony on Friday, Illinois and Missouri will have more than two dozen athletes representing Team USA.
Only three U.S. states will send more athletes to the 2024 Paris Games than Illinois. California will send 120 athletes, Florida has 42, and Texas has 41. Illinois and Pennsylvania to the Games, according to the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee. Missouri will send at least 10. The 2024 U.S. Paralympic Team's final roster will be announced on Aug. 19, according to the U.S. Olympic Committee.
The Games will take place through Aug. 11, though some events will happen before the official opening ceremony on Friday. Athletes will compete in 32 sports and 329 medal events. Illinois athletes will compete in soccer, wrestling, volleyball, rowing, rhythmic gymnastics and more. Missouri athletes will compete in basketball, diving, track and field, trap shooting and soccer.
Missourians on Team USA
Here are the 10 Olympic athletes from Missouri who will represent the U.S. in Paris.
- , of St. Louis, will compete in men's basketball.
- , of Jefferson City, will compete in women's basketball.
- , of Ballwin, will compete in men's synchronized diving and 3-meter spring diving.
- , of Moscow Mills, will be competing in women's hammer throw.
- , of Pattonsburg, will compete in women's trap shooting.
- , of St. Peters, will compete in men's soccer.
- , of St. Louis, will compete in men's 110-meter hurdles.
- , of Kansas City, will compete in men's 400-meter and 4x400 meter relay.
- of O'Fallon, will compete in men's 800-meter race.
- , of Kansas City, will compete in men's pole vault.
Illinoisans on Team USA
Here are the 27 Olympic athletes and two Paralympic athletes from Illinois who will represent the U.S. at this summer鈥檚 Games.
- , from East Alton, will compete in track and field.
- , from Grayslake, will compete in soccer.
- , from Bellwood, will compete in wrestling.
- , from Chicago, will compete in wrestling.
- , from Aurora, will compete in volleyball.
- , from Winnetka, will compete in rowing.
- , from Algonquin, will compete in Paratriathlon.
- , from Chicago, will compete in basketball.
- , from Boody, will compete in rugby. Doyle is an Eastern Illinois University alum.
- , from Chicago, will compete in track and field.
- , from Downers Grove, will compete in Paratriathlon.
- , from Orland Park, will compete in rhythmic gymnastics.
- , from Springfield, will compete in swimming.
- , from Wheaton, will compete in volleyball.
- , from Chicago, will compete in judo.
- , from Wheaton, will compete in volleyball.
- , from Northfield, will compete in rowing.
- , from Deerfield, will compete in gymnastics.
- , from Naperville, will compete in soccer.
- , from Rock Island, will compete in track and field.
- , from Lincolnwood, will compete in basketball.
- , from Germantown Hills, will compete in swimming.
- , from Chicago, will compete in wrestling.
- , from Mt. Prospect, will compete in track and field.
- , from Riverside, will compete in volleyball.
- , from Bartlett, will compete in volleyball.
- , from Wilmette, will compete in sailing.
- , from Addison, will compete in soccer.
- , from Itasca, will compete in track and field.
Deanna Price, a Southern Illinois University alum, will compete in track and field this year .
鈥淲e鈥檙e proud to have members of the Saluki family competing in the Summer Olympics and Paralympics, and we wish them the best at the Games,鈥� SIU Chancellor Austin Lane said in an emailed statement to the News-Democrat.
throughout the years have previously attended SIU, according to the university鈥檚 website.
Discus thrower Jayden Ulrich graduated from East Alton-Wood River Community High School.
鈥淚 love being able to represent that area of Illinois and being a part of the Metro East area,鈥� Ulrich told KSDK in a . 鈥淭ons of good athletes come out of there, and I鈥檓 glad to be one of them now.鈥�
Meredith Howard is a reporter with the , a news partner of 漏 2024 外网天堂.
