South Florida Olympians to watch in Paris

• Several more will compete in the Paralympics, which begin Aug. 26.

Here are just a few athletes and events to watch:

Coco Gauff: Tennis

• The 20-year-old Delray Beach native and reigning U.S. Open champion is making her Olympics debut.
• Gauff will be a flag bearer for Team USA during the opening ceremonies along with former Miami Heat star LeBron James. (Gauff will be the youngest American – and first tennis player ever – to carry the flag for the U.S.)

Aaliyah Butler: Track and field

• Butler, 20, attended Miami Northwestern Senior High School and will be competing in the women's 400-meter race for Team USA.
• She's originally from Fort Lauderdale and got her start with the Lauderhill Cheetah Track Organization, per NBC Miami.
• Her family started a GoFundMe to pay for their travel to Paris.

Benjamin Cremaschi: Soccer

• The 19-year-old Inter Miami midfielder was selected to the U.S. men's Olympic soccer team, whose roster is limited to players 23 years old and younger.
• The Argentine American grew up in Key Biscayne.
• His Inter Miami teammate, Diego Gómez, was named to Paraguay's national team.

Angelica Delgado: Judo

• The 33-year-old Florida International University alumnus is the daughter of a Cuban exile father who competed in judo for the Cuban national team.
• Delgado competed at the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games and is Team USA's highest-ranked athlete in the world, per her Olympic bio.

Ashleigh Johnson: Water polo

• The now three-time Olympian is a Miami native born to Jamaican parents.
• She is considered "one of the best goalkeepers in the world," according to USA Water Polo.
• Johnson became the first African American woman to make a U.S. Olympic Women's Water Polo team in 2016 and supports swimming and water polo programs in Miami.

Daniella Ramirez: Artistic swimming

• The 22-year-old Miami native, who attended Florida Virtual School, is a third-generation synchronized swimmer behind her grandmother, mother and sister, per her Team USA bio.
• She wants to study architecture after her swimming career ends.

Erika Reineke: Sailing

• The Fort Lauderdale native qualified for her first-ever Olympics in her fourth attempt at the U.S. Olympic Trials.

• She will compete in the Laser Radial, a single-handed sailing event.
• "I'm 30 now, and I started pursuing this path when I was 15—it's been a long road. I've been tested every Games cycle, and to finally succeed feels amazing," she wrote on Instagram after qualifying.

Dominique Stater: Sailing

• The 23-year-old Miami native will compete in Women's iQFOiL, a speedy windsurfing event new to the Games this year. This is her first Olympics.
• As the daughter of a U.S. diplomat, Stater lived in five different countries growing up and learned to windsurf on the Rio de la Plata in Argentina.
• She attended the University of Miami and sails out of the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club and US Sailing Center Miami.

Twanisha Terry: Track and field

• The 25-year-old Miami sprinter will run in her first Olympics in the 100m for Team USA alongside her training mates Sha'Carri Richardson and Melissa Jefferson.
• Terry, whose nickname is TeeTee, is a two-time gold medalist in the World Athletics Championships.
• She attended Miami Northwestern Senior High School.

Bam Adebayo: Basketball

• He's not a Miami native, but the Miami Heat superstar will still be representing the 305 for the USA men's basketball team.
• Captain "Bamerica" won a gold medal in the 2020 games.