The 2024 Paris Olympics will be the last Olympics for stars like LeBron James (basketball), Rafael Nadal (tennis) and Simone Biles (gymnastics).

LeBron James first participated in the Olympics in 2004, then won gold medals with the US basketball team in 2008 and 2012. The 39-year-old star has not set a retirement date, but confirmed that he will not participate in the 2028 Olympics in his home country of the US. He carried the US flag at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics and is the first male basketball player to have this honor at the opening ceremony of the Olympics.

Marta has played in six World Cups and six Olympics and is considered a great female player in history. She announced her retirement from international football after the 2023 World Cup, but will return to the team for the 2024 Paris Olympics, even wearing the captain’s armband. The 38-year-old has won the Copa America three times, but has yet to win a world-class collective title, despite reaching the final of the 2007 World Cup and the 2004 and 2008 Olympics with Brazil.

Simone Biles is known as the “Queen of Gymnastics” for her ability to perform the most difficult moves in the sport, even creating the double somersault in the air named after herself. She has won seven Olympic medals and was the first American athlete to win four gold medals in gymnastics at a single Olympics in 2016.

At Tokyo 2020, the 27-year-old athlete only won a silver medal in the team and a bronze medal in the balance beam, after withdrawing from four events, including the women’s team, individual all-around, vault and freestyle, due to mental health . These are the four events in which Biles won gold medals in Rio 2016.

Rafael Nadal won gold at Beijing 2008 at the age of 22, then won the men’s doubles title with his close friend Marc Lopez at Rio 2016. In between, the Spaniard missed London 2012 and Tokyo 2020 due to injury. In his third and final appearance at the Summer Olympics, Nadal will compete in both the men’s singles and doubles.

Andy Murray will even retire right after the 2024 Paris Olympics due to his age. In Paris, the 37-year-old tennis player will compete in the men’s singles, doubles with Dan Evans and may also compete in the mixed doubles. Murray is the only tennis player in history to win two Olympic men’s singles gold medals, defeating Roger Federer in the men’s singles final in 2012 and Juan Martin del Potro in 2016.

Eliud Kipchoge heads to Paris with the ambition of becoming the first athlete to win three marathon gold medals in three consecutive Olympics, having won Rio 2016 in 2:08:44 and Tokyo 2020 in 2:08:38. He is only the third runner to win the men’s marathon in two consecutive Olympics, after Ethiopian Abebe Bikila (1960 and 1964) and East German Waldemar Cierpinski (1976 and 1980). If he wins again in Paris this summer, Kipchoge – who turns 40 in November – will also set a record as the oldest athlete to defend a men’s marathon gold medal at the Olympics.

Carolina Marin is a three-time world badminton champion in 2014, 2015 and 2018, and won the gold medal at the Rio Olympics in 2016. But the 31-year-old Spaniard suffered a serious injury – a torn anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus – and was forced to withdraw from Tokyo 2020. Marin – who was ranked number one in the world for a total of 66 weeks – came to Paris with the ambition of reclaiming the gold medal.

Kayaker Saul Craviotto now has five Olympic medals, equal to David Cal, and could become Spain’s most decorated Olympic athlete in Paris. Craviotto won gold at Beijing 2008, silver at London 2012, gold and bronze at Rio 2016, and silver at Tokyo 2020. He was Spain’s flag bearer at the 2012 Olympics closing ceremony and the 2020 Olympics opening ceremony.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has won eight Olympic medals, including two 100m golds at Beijing 2008 and London 2012, a 4×100m relay gold at Tokyo 2020, as well as four silvers and a bronze. The Jamaican runner has also won ten golds at the world championships and is considered one of the greatest sprinters of all time.

Paris 2024 will not only be the 37-year-old’s final Olympic experience, but also the end of an illustrious career. “There’s not a day that I wake up and go to training without thinking about my family. My son needs me. My husband and I have been together since before I won the 2008 Olympic gold medal. He sacrificed for me, and I owe that to my family,” Fraser-Pryce said earlier this year.

Teddy Riner is a French judo star who has won 11 world gold medals, the only athlete (male or female) to achieve this feat. He has won three Olympic gold medals, split between the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Games. At 35, Riner is ambitious to continue winning gold medals on home soil, but still leaves open the possibility of competing in the 2028 Olympics.