Crew USA Olympians to Observe on TikTok Through the Paris Video games

The 2024 Paris Olympics are set to start on July 26. And for the reason that introduction of social media, increasingly athletes have been sharing behind-the-scenes entry to life on the Summer season Video games.

Most notably, in 2021 in the course of the Tokyo Olympics, a number of members of Crew USA — together with diver Tyler Downs, rugby participant Ilona Maher and gymnast Suni Lee — offered entertaining content material and perception into all the pieces, from life contained in the Olympic Village to rule modifications the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) applied to stop the unfold of COVID-19 throughout competitors.

Different athletes like Australian diver Sam Fricker even shared the within scoop on the viral cardboard beds, that are additionally making a return at Paris this summer time.

On the time, the BBC reported that TikTok had “change into the unofficial behind-the-scenes Olympic channel,” explaining the social media platform — which was first launched in 2016 — was “providing a unique viewing expertise altogether.”

“TikTok — probably the most downloaded app of 2020 — is having its second,” the outlet mentioned.

And in 2024, the pattern would not appear to be slowing down with athletes from Crew USA already sharing a glance behind the scenes now that they’re in France and readying to compete on the world stage. Because the Paris Video games get underway, listed below are another Crew USA members to observe on TikTok: 

Tara Davis-Woodhall (@tara)

After making her Olympic debut in Tokyo, Davis-Woodhall, 25, will battle for gold throughout her second Summer season Video games. The monitor and discipline athlete who positioned sixth in the course of the 2020 Video games will compete within the ladies’s lengthy leap. 

Moreover, Davis-Woodhall’s husband Hunter Woodhall, a Paralympian sprinter, can also be massive on the app. Anticipate the 25-year-old runner to cheer on his spouse on the Olympics earlier than she turns into his cheering squad a number of weeks later in the course of the Paralympic Video games.  

Lee Kiefer and Gerek Meinhardt (@oldmarriedolympians)

Keifer, 30, and Meinhardt, 33, have been married since 2019 and they’re going to each symbolize Crew USA in fencing. Keifer, a three-time Olympian and second lady ever to win gold within the sport, shall be competing within the ladies’s foil whereas Meinhardt, a four-time Olympian and two-time bronze winner, will go for gold within the males’s foil.

Anna Peplowski (@anna_peplowski)

Peplowski, 21, shall be making her Olympic debut on the Paris Video games. She shall be taking part within the 4×200-meter freestyle relay in the course of the swimming competitors. 

Frederick Richard (@frederickflips)

The 20-year-old from Massachusetts will compete at his first Olympics, representing Crew USA in the course of the males’s gymnastics competitors. In 2023, Richard — who will vie for a medal within the particular person and group occasions — grew to become the youngest American male gymnast to earn a person medal at a world championship.

Evy Leibfarth (@evykayak)

At 20 years outdated, the slalom canoeist shall be returning to the Summer season Video games after making her debut in Tokyo, the place she completed twelfth within the K1 occasion and 18th within the C1 occasion.  

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