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Olympic track and field takes flight today, with a talented Team USA looking to ascend the podium once again.

From early this morning until a few hours before the Closing Ceremony, track and field stars will compete across 48 events in a quest for Olympic glory.

Team USA pole vaulter Katie Moon will to defend her Tokyo gold medal at the Paris Olympics. (FRANCOIS-XAVIER MARIT/AFP via Getty Images)

USA track and field shoots for Olympic podium return

In 2021, Team USA led all nations with a collective 26 medals, with athletes competing in women’s events — including Katie Moon (pole vault), Valarie Allman (discus), and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (400-meter hurdles) — responsible for five of the team’s seven golds.

Since then, the squad has only improved, earning 33 and 29 medals at the last two World Athletics Championships respectively, including 12 golds in Budapest last summer.

Olympics Team USA track star Masai Russell at the World Indoor Athletics Championships
Team USA’s Masai Russell praises the Olympics’ newly introduced repechage rounds. (Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)

New rule offers track and field athletes an Olympic redo

For the first time in Olympic history, the 2024 Games will feature a repechage round in the…

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