The transition to seeing skilled athletes’ birthdays on rosters be within the 2000s has come and gone. Olympic followers have to prep themselves for the most recent purpose to really feel previous: there will probably be athletes on the massive display screen born within the 2010s.
Meet Chinese language skateboarder Zheng Haohao, who was born on August 11, 2012. At the age of 11, she is the youngest Olympian within the Paris 2024 area, in keeping with the Unbiased, nonetheless a pair weeks shy of her twelfth birthday.
Not solely is Zheng the youngest in these Olympics, however she can be the youngest athlete ever to compete for China within the Video games, in keeping with Reuters.
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The preteen picked up the skateboard simply 4 years in the past on her seventh birthday, per Reuters. She was the youngest athlete to compete in China’s Nationwide Video games in 2021, when she completed in 14th place. She was 9 years previous.
In 2023 she started her worldwide profession on the World Skateboarding Tour in Argentina, in keeping with the China Every day. She certified for the Olympics by finishing a 540 flip within the Budapest Olympic Qualifier Collection.
Now, only a yr after beginning to skateboard internationally, Zheng is about for the Olympics. The world will probably be watching as she reveals that Gen Alpha is right here to compete.
The youngest athlete to ever compete within the Summer season Olympics was Greek gymnast Dimitrios Loundras, who debuted within the 1896 Athens Olympics on the age of 10 years and 218 days.
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