The young athlete chosen to replace USA gymnastics captain and Olympic champion Simone Biles at the individual all-round competition final is a 5”1’ blonde who has had a vault-jump named after her.
Jade Carey, 21, from Phoenix, Arizona, pulled out of a place at Oregon State University four years ago to concentrate on representing her country at Tokyo2020.
The four-time world championship medalist did not initially qualify for the four-discipline event, after finishing third behind team-mates Biles and Sunisa Lee. Only two athletes per country proceed to the all-round finals.
Jade Carey was chosen to replace Simone Biles in the women's individual all-round competition. She competed in the women's vault qualifications on July 25
Carey is a four-time world championship medalist who fell in love with gymnastics when she was just four years old
Simone Biles has dropped out of the women's individual all-around to recover her mental health
Carey, right, completed floor excersises with the rest of Team USA on July 25. She is with, from the left, Crace McCallum, Sunisa Lee, Jordan Chiles, Simone Biles and Mykayla Skinner
Biles can been seen blowing a kiss and cheering on her male colleagues yesterday during the men's all-around final
But now Carey has a chance to shine in front of the world, particularly in the vault, her favourite event, in which one skill, ‘the tucked Kasamatus full’, was renamed ‘the Carey’, after her, in the Junior Olympic
