French gymnast Samir Aït Saïd qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Friday thanks to his third place on the rings during the World Cup stage in Doha, the French Gymnastics Federation announced. Samir Aït Saïd, flag bearer of the French delegation during the Tokyo Games in 2021, will thus participate in his third Olympic Games, recalls the FFGYM which nevertheless specifies that “his selection must be validated by the Consultative Commission for Olympic selections of the CNOSF”.
The 34-year-old native of Champigny-sur-Marne was seriously injured (double tibia-fibula fracture) during the vault event at the Rio Games in 2016. He then participated in the Tokyo Games. , finishing at the foot of the podium (4th) on the rings, his favorite apparatus.