The U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials Are Here — Live Updates as Simone Biles and Other Athletes Compete to Join Team USA

How to Watch and Who’s Competing at the 2024 Trials

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The 2024 U.S. Olympic Gymnastics team trials kick off with the men’s competition on Thursday, June 27 before wrapping up with the second day of the women’s competition on Sunday, June 30. 

According to NBC Sports, all four days of the trials will air live on NBC and USA Network and stream on Peacock, with coverage beginning during the primetime TV viewing hours on the first two nights. 

Daily Schedule and Where to Watch:

Thursday, June 27: Men’s Day 1 

• USA Network and Peacock, from 6 to 9 p.m. EST

Friday, June 28: Women’s Day 1

• Peacock, from 7:30 to 8 p.m. EST
• NBC and Peacock, from 8 to 10 p.m. EST

Saturday, June 29: Men’s Day 2

• NBC and Peacock, from 3 to 6 p.m. EST

Sunday, June 30: Women’s Day 2

• NBC and Peacock, from 8:30 to 11 p.m. EST

Who’s Competing: 

Looking ahead at the women’s competition, Olympic gold medalist Laurie Hernandez tells PEOPLE at an NBC Universal Paris Olympics press event on June 26 Skye Blakely had a “really impressive showing” at the U.S. National Gymnastics Championships at the end of May, noting that “she’s kind of an underdog from there.” 

At the same event, “we saw Simone [Biles] win by six points, which is unheard of,” says Hernandez, 24. The 27-year-old gymnast, who competed at the 2016 Rio Games and 2020 Tokyo Games, is expected to be a lock for this year’s team. 

Here’s the full roster for the men’s and women’s competition and how they finished at nationals.

Women:

• Simone Biles, 1st
• Skye Blakely, 2nd
• Kayla DiCello, 3rd
• Sunisa Lee, 4th
• Jordan Chiles, 5th
• Hezly Rivera, 6th
• Jade Carey, 7th
• Leanne Wong, 8th
• Tiana Sumanasekera, 9th
• Joscelyn Roberson, 10th
• Zoey Molomo, 11th
• Simone Rose, 12th
• Eveylynn Lowe, 13th
• Dulcy Caylor, 14th
• Kaliya Lincoln Frisco, petitioned
• Shilese Jones Auburn, petitioned

Men:

• Brody Malone, 1st
• Fred Richard, 2nd
• Khoi Young, 3rd 
• Yul Moldauer, 4th
• Shane Wiskus, 5th
• Paul Juda, 6th
• Donnell Whittenburg, 7th
• Cameron Bock, 8th
• Colt Walker, 9th
• Asher Hong, 10th
• Fuzzy Benas, 11th
• Jeremy Bischoff, 12th
• Josh Karnes, 17th
• Kiran Mandava, 20th
• Kai Uemura, 23th
• Tate Costa, 25th
• Curran Phillips , petitioned
• Alex Diab, N/A
• Patrick Hoopes, N/A
• Stephen Nedoroscik, N/A

Former Olympic Gymnast Laurie Hernandez Breaks Down How the Team Is Chosen to PEOPLE

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Another Fierce Five will soon be chosen, but how? It’s not as simple as best score at the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics team trails this week.

Who better to explain the process than Laurie Hernandez, who earned a silver and a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and now serves as a commentator for NBC.

Hernandez, 24, tells PEOPLE at an NBC Universal Paris Olympics press event on June 26 that there’s “three tiers of qualifiers that happen.”

First, was the 2024 Core Hydration Gymnastics Classic, which was held in May. That event qualifies you to Championships,” Hernandez says. “The U.S. Gymnastics Championships was a few weeks ago, we saw Simone [Biles] win by six points.”

“Those athletes will go on and qualify into Olympic trials,” explains Hernandez. “So somewhere around 15 athletes or so will be competing there.”

The top two finishers at trials are automatically on the Olympic team — but the rest of the spots can be “shuffled in any way that the Olympic Committee sees fit.”

“So someone who comes in fifth place is not automatically on a five-person team, they’re allowed to take person six or seven and swap them if that’s what they choose,” Hernandez tells PEOPLE, noting that there are also three alternates chosen for the team.

It’s then that these athletes go into a training camp, where who will compete in which events is decided upon.