Team USA Has Its Second Largest Olympic Squad Ever

ACROSS AMERICA — More than 600 athletes will represent the United States in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, as rosters for all Olympic teams were finalized on Tuesday, according to NBC, the network televising the games this summer. The 613 athletes on Team USA make for the second-largest Olympic roster in U.S. history, and the most women any country has ever sent to the Olympics.

The U.S. had a larger roster only in Atlanta in 1996, the most recent time the country hosted the summer games. The U.S. in 2021 has the fourth-largest roster ever, only behind the U.S. in 1996, France in 1900 and Great Britain in 1908.

Both European countries hosted the Olympics in those years as well, meaning the U.S.' 2021 squad will be the largest ever for a country not hosting the games.

The U.S. has more women than men competing for the third Summer Olympics in a row. The 338 women on Team USA this year shatters the previous record of female Olympians, 221, also set by the U.S., in 2016.

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