The trail to Paris will look similar to the street to Tokyo – no less than so far as the 2024 Xfinity U.S. Gymnastics Championships are involved.
USA Gymnastics introduced Tuesday that the U.S. championships will return to Dickies Enviornment in Fort Value, Texas, from Could 30-June 2, 2024 – three years after internet hosting the championships main into the Tokyo Olympic Video games.
The occasion crowns nationwide champions in inventive gymnastics on the junior and senior ranges and determines nationwide groups. The championships maintain further significance throughout an Olympic 12 months as the ultimate “tryout” within the hopes of incomes a berth to Olympic Trials, which shall be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from June 27-30, 2024.
Quickly after the venue announcement, followers took to social media to precise their disappointment in USAG for as soon as once more holding the occasion in a state that bans abortion.
In 2022, the championships have been held in Tampa, Florida, with USAG awarding the occasion in January, months earlier than the Supreme Court docket overturned Roe v. Wade. After that call, Florida banned abortion after 15 weeks of being pregnant, with restricted exceptions.
In response, USAG CEO & President Li Li Leung stated at that 12 months’s championships that there was “no query that [abortion laws] are going to be a consideration transferring ahead.”
“I feel lots of you understand the values of our group,” Leung stated in a press convention. “We’re about empowerment. We’re about alternative. We’re about company. And the overturning of that call does take away from our worth system… We would like to have the ability to align with cities and areas which might be additionally aligned with our worth system.”
Dickies Enviornment has additionally hosted the NCAA Girls’s Gymnastics Championships, which isn’t organized by USAG, since 2019. The venue is at the moment set to host that championship occasion by 2026.
Tickets for the 2024 Xfinity U.S. Gymnastics Championships will go on sale later this 12 months.
