Gymnast Hezly Rivera Details Being the New Girl on 2024 Olympics Team

“We’ll see when we get there, how trainings go,” she explained. “I’m doing the normal trainings that I would for championships and trials, because you never know what could happen.”

But, Rivera said, “I know my gymnastics. And I know what I have to do. So as long as I do me, and not try to do any better or any worse, I know that I’ll be fine.”

If that sounds wise beyond her years, that’s just how Team USA’s youngest member rolls (not to mentions twists, bounces and flies through the air).

“It’s very important to be confident,” Rivera said. “Because I know that I can do it. I just need to believe it.”

And now get an eyeful of the leotards the U.S. women’s gymnastics team will be sporting at the 2024 Paris Olympics, which Rivera dubbed “the prettiest leos I’ve ever seen”:

—Reporting by Colleen O’Neill