Featured Project: Paris 2024 Summer Olympics

Posted August 2, 2024 by Amanda | No Comment

Have you been watching the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics? Athletes from all around the world have come together in Paris, France to compete for the gold. In celebration of this year’s Olympic games, we’re highlighting the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics genealogy project. You can bring your love of genealogy and your enthusiasm for the Olympics together and collaborate with others to build the family trees of this summer’s Olympic athletes.

Collaborators have been hard at work connecting Olympic athletes to the World Family Tree. You can also find some of this year’s most popular athletes already connected. Let’s take a look at a few of them below!

Simone Biles

This week gymnast Simone Biles made history by becoming the most decorated U.S. gymnast in Olympic history. The U.S. women’s gymnastic team took home the gold in the team final. Just a couple of days later, Biles cinched the gold medal in the women’s all-around final. She faced fierce competition against Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade, who came in second with a silver medal. Andrade had previously won a silver medal at the Olympic games in Tokyo, which made her the first Brazilian female gymnast to medal at an Olympic Games. Biles’s Team USA teammate Suni Lee placed third with a bronze medal.

Stephen Nedoroscik

Men’s gymnastics has also received a lot of attention thanks to pommel horse expert Stephen Nedoroscik. The “Clark Kent” of the U.S. men’s gymnastic team, Nedoroscik’s showing on the pommel horse during the men’s gymnastics final helped secure the bronze medal for the U.S. men’s artistic gymnastic team. It is the team’s first medal in almost 16 years!

Katie Ledecky

Swimmer Katie Ledecky became the most decorated female U.S. Olympian of all time when she won silver in the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay. The Paris games mark her fourth Olympic games. Earlier in the week, Ledecky earned gold in the 1,500-meter freestyle, breaking her own Olympic record with a finish of 15:30.02.

The Paris 2024 Summer Olympics project serves as an umbrella project for the games. You can find several sub-projects that focus on athletes from specific countries, including the United States, Israel, Great Britain, the Philippines, and more. If you don’t see the athletes in your country represented, you can create your own project and add it as a related project in the 2024 Olympic umbrella project so others may easily find it and join.

Get started today!