By: Nathan Tse

The Paris 2024 Olympics started this summer on July 26, 2024, and there are some people who are stars in certain sports who have entered, hoping to achieve goals, get medals, and recognition.

Now, when you think of the Olympics, what sport do you think of first? I don’t know about you, but when I think of Olympics, I think of races, so I’ll start with running. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce represents Jamaica, and according to the BBC, she’s known to be one of the best female sprinters in the world. She is also probably one of the smallest athletes as well as she is about five feet tall. According to AP News, she has an impressive three gold medals from the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2012 London Olympics, and 2021 Tokyo Games. She also has 5 other Olympics medals.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is most likely going to get another one this summer, although it might be hard with Sha‘Carri Richardson, an American runner just as good as Shelly-Ann also competing. Well good luck to Fraser-Pryce, because this is her last time competing in the Olympics, so if you want to watch her, it’s best if you watch soon.

Now, I’ll do gymnastics, because I felt Simone Biles had to be in the article. Simone Biles is a famous at gymnastics and is part of team USA, so I’m pretty sure you’ve heard of her and what happened a few, but in case you don’t know, she was an amazing at gymnastic until she had health problems at Tokyo, so she withdrew, but now she’s back! Anyway, she and her team are doing great, and she has gotten more gold medals!

These are just two crazy good Olympic athletes. There are many more! And there could be even more in the future! But, that’s for another article.

Sources:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/cgxqe0lxg70o

https://www.peacocktv.com/sports/olympics/gymnastics

https://apnews.com/article/2024-olympics-shelly-ann-fraser-pryce-2734a58fa5969593ee34d8bd88d7d3eb