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- Saturday, June 1 – Senior Males Day 1 – CNBC (Tape Delay) – 11:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
- Saturday, June 1 – Senior Ladies Session 2, Day 1 – CNBC (Tape Delay) – 1:30-4:00 p.m.
- Saturday, June 1 – Senior Males Day 2 – CNBC LIVE – 7:00-9:30 p.m.
- Sunday, June 2 – Senior Males Day 2 – NBC (Tape Delay) – 2:00-3:00 p.m.
- Sunday, June 2 – Senior Ladies Session 2, Day 2 – NBC LIVE – 6:00-8:00 p.m.
2023 U.S. Nationwide runner up and World All-Round bronze medalist Shilese Jones has withdrawn from the 2024 Xfinity U.S. Championships citing a shoulder damage.
After podium coaching, Jones instructed the media. “They assume it’s one thing with my bicep. It’s simply actually flared up. So we’ll see what goes on tonight. However [I’m] simply attempting to get as a lot therapy as I can.”
Wanting nicely past Fort Price, Jones continues to be coming for Paris gold and this resolution appears to be the best name in the case of her general well being, balanced with attaining her long-term targets. Jones is vital to Workforce USA’s gold medal prospects in Paris and able to bringing house {hardware} of her personal within the All-Round and bars on the very least.
Jones is submitting a petition to compete at Olympic Trials June 27-30 in Minneapolis.
Per USA Gymnastics:
Full choice procedures for the ladies’s inventive Olympic Workforce will be discovered of their entirety on the USA Gymnastics web site.
These procedures communicate to the petition course of on pp. 4-5. In abstract: Any athlete searching for to petition for entry into the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials – Gymnastics should submit their petitions in writing to the Vice President of Ladies’s Program as quickly as sensible after the athlete turns into conscious of her incapacity to take part within the course of, no later than the conclusion of the 2024 Xfinity U.S. Gymnastics Championships. The Athlete Choice Committee will make a dedication on the petition as quickly as possible.
Any athlete whose petition for entry into the Olympic Trials is accepted will likely be positioned onto the Nationwide Workforce.
Per Annie Heffernon, vice chairman of ladies’s gymnastics for USA Gymnastics, the choice committee ought to have a call concerning Jones’ petition as quickly as doable.
You actually couldn’t ask for a greater end to the story that was Jones’ 2022 and 2023 season. With all of the adversity she’s confronted early on in her profession got here a calmness and sense of confidence that has allowed Jones to concentrate on her gymnastics her personal means and she or he’ll take this time to proceed that focus with a view to be wholesome by Minneapolis for Olympic Trials and later this summer season in Paris.
Having misplaced her father in December 2021, Jones’ strategy this whole quad has been past admirable. After ending tenth on the 2021 Olympic Trials, Jones was prepared to shut the Elite chapter of her profession. Nonetheless, it was a dialog together with her father that impressed her to maintain going. Jones returned to Seattle to be nearer to household and began coaching on the fitness center the place her journey first started years in the past. She additionally deferred her enrollment on the College of Florida at the moment, formally setting her sights set on Paris 2024.
Jones has gained quite a lot of perspective within the sport not too long ago and what issues most. Realizing she’s proper on the verge of her Olympic dream, she instructed us in Might earlier than the Core Hydration Basic, “I’m tremendous laborious on myself, so I’m simply taking all of it on this yr. I do know my purpose is true in my arms now. I’m following the identical coaching plan and, you understand, kicking the nerves off but in addition staying calm and centered on the identical time.”
Jones’ success has additionally introduced notoriety and thrilling alternatives for her to carry gymnastics, life steadiness and general well being consciousness to the forefront, together with a partnership with Core Hydration, one thing she says permits a number of alternatives for her era.
“We’re very blessed and you understand, working with this partnership and having so many nice thrilling issues exterior of our coaching is simply tremendous thrilling,” she stated. “It evokes numerous the youthful women. I look again at my youthful self and by no means would have thought this was doable.”
She’s additionally so appreciative and conscious of simply how historic the senior ladies’s area is true now and she or he sees that as a bonus for everybody. “You already know, we’re aggressive on the identical time, however we’re there to assist every woman and athlete on the identical time,” she stated.
