Tennis star Coco Gauff has been chosen as Team USA’s feminine flag bearer for the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee introduced the information on Wednesday.
At 20 years outdated, Gauff will turn out to be the youngest flag bearer for Team USA as she makes her Olympic Games debut. She can be the primary tennis participant to turn out to be a flag bearer for the U.S. workforce.
The tennis participant will be part of NBA star and three-time Olympian LeBron James because the USA’s two elected flag bearers.
“I by no means thought in 1,000,000 years I might have the honour of carrying the American flag for Team USA within the Opening Ceremony,” Gauff mentioned in a press launch. “I couldn’t be extra proud to guide my teammates with LeBron as we showcase our dedication and keenness on the most important stage there’s – at a second the place we are able to carry athletes and followers collectively from around the globe.”
Gauff and James have been chosen by fellow Team USA athletes by a voting course of led by the Team USA Athletes’ Commission.
“To be nominated by your teammates for this honor speaks volumes about the way in which through which Coco approaches her sport and her function as a member of Team USA. I’m thrilled for her to start out her Olympic journey right here in Paris and, with LeBron, to guide Team USA and encourage followers round United States and the world on Friday night time,” USOPC CEO Sarah Hirshland mentioned in a press launch.
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Gauff is the reigning U.S. Open ladies’s singles champion and is presently ranked No. 2 in singles — which is a career-high for the tennis professional. She additionally lately received her first Grand Slam doubles title on the French Open with Czechia’s Katerina Siniakova.
The opening ceremony kicks off Friday in Paris.
