North Texan Hezly Rivera will be the youngest member of Team USA in 2024
At 16 years and 26 days, Hezly Rivera from Plano, is the youngest person on Team USA headed to the Paris Olympics Hezly Rivera has realized her childhood dream. At the conclusion of the U.S. Olympic trials in gymnastics, she found out that she would be part of the five-woman Olympic team.“I am so grateful to be here and to be selected on this Olympic team. I have made so many sacrifices to get here so I want to thank God, my coaches, family, my friends and my teammates.
Even though she is the youngest on the team, she said she had to think like a veteran throughout the competition. She said she still can’t believe that in 2021, she was sitting at her house and in the gym watching the Tokyo Olympics, saying to herself she wanted to be on that team. Now, she is here.
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