And one. A little over a year before the Paris 2024 Games (D – 375 this Monday July 17), the American team has its first selection. Katie Grimes (photo above), 17, punched her ticket by taking third place – in the photo finish – in the 10 km open water event at the world swimming championships, Saturday July 15 in Fukuoka , in Japan. The United States has already obtained other quotas for the Paris 2024 Games, in individual disciplines and team sports, but the selected athletes are not yet known. Katie Grimes had already made history two years earlier by becoming the youngest member of the American Olympic team at the Tokyo 2020 Games. She took fourth place in the 800m at just 15 years old. At the 2024 Paris Games, she will become the youngest American to compete in two consecutive Olympic Games since Nikki Ziegelmeyer, a short track specialist, qualified at the Winter Games in Albertville in 1992 and Lillehammer in 1994.
