Simone Biles! Seine party! Clay tennis! The Paris Olympics promises it all. From a marathon start at the Hotel de Ville to beach volleyball at the Eiffel Tower, the 2024 Games will showcase the City of Lights as heavily as the athletes. There’s the first opening ceremony — one year from today! — in summer Olympic history to take place outside of a stadium. There’s tennis returning to the red stuff for the first time since Barcelona in 1992. And there’s the potential for a 21-and-over, all-former-Olympian U.S. women’s gymnastics team, more record-smashing by American swimmers and a surf contest taking place 10,000 miles from the Latin Quarter. Fluctuat Nec Mergitur!
Here are six storylines we’re already excited about, 365 days out:
Will Simone Biles be named to a third Olympic team?
WATCH: Women’s gymnastics qualifying rounds, July 28, 2024, Bercy Arena
WARMUP: 2023 U.S. Gymnastics Championships, Aug. 24-27, San Jose, California
Biles is back! In June, after months of speculation, the four-time Olympic gold medalist quietly added her name…
