Gymnasts perform routines set to music on a padded surface. The routine includes tumbling skills and tests gymnasts’ strength, balance, agility, and flexibility. Take a look at this floor routine from Jordan Chiles, which scored a perfect ten.

Athletes rotate and flip around/between two sets of bars with different heights. Check out Suni Lee’s uneven bars from the 2021 U.S. Gymnastics Championships here.

Gymnasts balance on a beam approximately 16 feet long and about four feet off the ground while doing flips and turns. Simone Biles excelled in the event at the 2024 U.S. Gymnastics Championships.

Athletes sprint down a runway before launching off of a springboard. Sticking the landing is a crucial part of this event. Watch Olympian McKayla Maroney nail this vault at the 2012 London Games.

Is there anything Dominique Dawes can’t do? Dawes competed for Team USA in three Olympic games: Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, and Sydney in 2000. She and her teammate, Betty Okino, were the first Black women to win gold medals in gymnastics. Dawes earned one gold medal and three bronzes during her time with the team.

Since retiring from the sport, Dawes has appeared in Grease on Broadway, become an Emmy-winning producer, and now owns her own gymnastics centers.

Even as a small child, Dominique Moceanu was an elite gymnast. At her first major national meet, she became the youngest gymnast in American history to win the all-around title at just 14 years old.

Moceanu was so talented that despite missing the Olympic trials due to a fracture in her leg, she still made the 1996 Olympic team based on the strength of her scores alone. To this day, Moceanu is the youngest U.S. gymnast ever to win an Olympic gold medal.

Sunisa “Suni” Lee became a household name after her incredible performance in the 2020 Tokyo Games, where she earned gold, silver, and bronze medals. However, in 2023, Lee was diagnosed with an incurable kidney disease. Since then, Lee has worked hard to prepare herself and feels good heading into trials.

“This comeback was so much more than my return to elite gymnastics. It was me proving to myself that I can overcome hard things, and to hopefully inspire others to never let life’s setbacks stop you from going after your dreams.” -Suni Lee

Jade Carey has long been one of Team USA’s consistent stars. But after a tough 2023 season where she placed outside the top eight for the first time in her career, Carey feels a newfound sense of confidence heading into the trials.

“I feel the most confident I have throughout this entire cycle…And [I’m] just reminding myself of how good I am, and not letting last year define that for me.” -Jade Carey