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“Am I dreaming?” – Coco Gauff reacts to becoming first tennis player and youngest athlete to be Team USA’s flag bearer at Paris Olympics 2024
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Coco Gauff is set to create history as the youngest athlete and first tennis player to be Team USA’s flag bearer at an Olympics.
The young tennis star was elated with the announcement that she and NBA star LeBron James would be Team USA’s flag bearers at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Gauff was scheduled to make her Olympics debut at the 2020 Tokyo Games, but she had to withdraw due to a positive covid test.
Her exuberance received a further boost on July 24 when she was announced as the female flag bearer of Team USA.
Gauff, the WTA World No. 2, took to her Instagram stories to react to the news.
She reposted two posts from Team USA’s Instagram account – one announcing her as one of the flag bearers, and the other about her achievement of becoming the first US tennis player to be selected as a flag bearer.