Olympians get warm send-off in Anaheim before Paris Games.
Members of the USA Volleyball Men’s and Women’s National Teams along with other Olympians and civic leaders, pose for a photo on stage during a sendoff event to the Summer Olympics in Paris at the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center in Anaheim on Saturday, July 13, 2024. The USA volleyball teams are based in Anaheim. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lexie Kelly, left, of Laguna Beach takes a photo of her dog, Kai, with Micah Christenson, a member of the USA Volleyball Men’s National Team, during a sendoff event to the Summer Olympics in Paris at the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center in Anaheim on Saturday, July 13, 2024. The USA volleyball teams are based out of Anaheim. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Members of the USA Volleyball Women’s National Team from left, Jordyn Poulter, Avery Skinner and Annie Drews, sign autographs during a sendoff event to the Summer Olympics in Paris at the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center in Anaheim on Saturday, July 13, 2024. The USA men’s and women’s volleyball teams are based in Anaheim. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Karch Kiraly, head coach of the U.S. Women’s National Volleyball Team, speaks during a sendoff event to the Summer Olympics in Paris at the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center in Anaheim on Saturday, July 13, 2024. The USA men’s and women’s volleyball teams are based in Anaheim. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Ursula Bohen, left, holds the swimming gold medal of Staciana Stitts, right, which she won in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, as members of the men’s and women’s volleyball teams sign autographs at left during a sendoff event to the Summer Olympics in Paris at the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center in Anaheim on Saturday, July 13, 2024. The USA men’s and women’s volleyball teams are based in Anaheim. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Swimming Olympians Staciana Stitts, left, and Brian Goodell, right, laugh as Olympic fencer Miles Chamley-Watson, center, speaks during a sendoff event to the Summer Olympics in Paris at the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center in Anaheim on Saturday, July 13, 2024. Members of the USA Volleyball Men’s and Women’s National Teams, based in Anaheim, were also at the event. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Ursula Bohen, center, has her photo taken with Karch Kiraly, right, head coach of the U.S. Women’s National Volleyball Team, as members of the men’s and women’s team sign autographs during a sendoff event to the Summer Olympics in Paris at the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center in Anaheim on Saturday, July 13, 2024. The USA men’s and women’s volleyball teams are based in Anaheim. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Fans gathered in Anaheim Saturday to coalesce behind a single message: “Go Team USA.”
The Orange County Sports Commission hosted a send-off party for some of the local Olympians headed to the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, including the USA Volleyball Men’s and Women’s Nationals Teams, which have been training in Anaheim.
The celebration hosted at the ARTIC station featured autograph signings and photo ops with the Olympians.
