>> live from your olympic station 7 news takes you into the olympic zone. brought to you in part by dunn kin donuts. >> reporter: all eyes on rio as the olympic games getting under way tomorrow night with the opening ceremony. bronze in london 4 years ago. raiseman is hoping for an on core in rio. looking to go out on top in what could be her final olympic games. welcome to the olympic zone. i'm trey daerr. the opening ceremony get under way tomorrow night. kicking things off enemy rio yesterday and we begin tonight

is hoping to capture a gold medal that evaded her in 2 previous olympics. >> reporter: as an olympic veteran byle is used to be on the biggest stage. in 2008 bizzle was the youngest athlete on the olympic team. >> on phelps. i was so young. >> reporter: returning for her third olympic games as captain. >> for me my role on the team is not necessarily winning the medals or being the face of the sport. it's more behind the scenes and being a cheer leader. >> reporter: the rhode island native made a splash at the age of 5. >> growing up in rhode island it's an ocean state. i loved the water.

work out in. my parents got that energy out of me by plopping me in a pool. >> reporter: made her way to massachusetts to join the blue fish swim club. >> they drove me there and back every day without a question. just for me to live my olympic dream. i owe all my successes to them. >> reporter: her parents and her home state supporting her all the way. >> rhode island has been the biggest support system i've since my olympic journey. i have an anchor tattooed on my rib for rhode island. i love it that much. >> reporter: an event she took silver in london. it's a race she's approaching differently. >> i know this is possibly my last olympics. i do want to make the most of it. i want to make sure i'm leaving my olympic experience the way i want to leave it.

making. >> it's been an amazing journey. i've seen amazing stuff happen. michael phelps winning gold medals. so many world records broken. i've made the best friends of my life. i would not change the journey for team u.s.a. >> reporter: elizabeth says she plans on cheering on her swimmers and the rest of team u.s.a. >> reporter: lidecy went to london at 15 years old. she arrives in rio as the most dominant swimmer in the world. >> the olympic zone brought to you by blue diamond almonds the official snack nut of the u.s. swim team. >> reporter: when katie lidecy dove in the pool in london this

>> here she is in the olympic final. >> lidecy out first. she went out really fast. >> everybody criticizes the announcers for saying i was going out too fast. honestly i was. >> lidecy is holding on. when you're 15 years old go out and race. >> i remember flipping at the 600 mark. it was like waking up from the i'm in an olympic final. i'm win what is this ? >> lidecy with a new american record. >> just goes out and kills it and destroys it. she knows what she's doing. it's fun to watch her. >> reporter: katie lidecy was the youngest member of team u.s.a. at the 2012 olympic games.

have support from bethesda. >> katie, katie. >> reporter: if lidecy's london olympics was in the swimming pool. carrying her to the undisputed top of the swim world. >> katie lidecy surging to the head of the field. with the gold. the greatest free styler in the world. >> world champion again in world record fa performances in world swimming championship history. blowing away the world record. >> reporter: her mission accomplished. lidecy won 4 free style championships at the olympics. it inspired it's own nickname the lidecy slam. lidecy took a year off after high school and will start at stanford university in the fall. first rio.

it shouldn't be different than a 6 year old starting to swim. it should be as fun as it was then. >> reporter: and coming up on the 7 news olympic zone our own nancy chen returns to give us a tour of the venues outside of rio. hoping to lead the u.s. women's soccer team to when people ask me what it's like to win an olympic medal,

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>> reporter: first medals will be handed out tomorrow. here's a look at who finished in the top medal count in london 4 years ago. team u.s.a. the winner capturing 46 medals. from beijing to london there's a list of olympic venues as recognizable as the athletes themselves.

>> reporter: competition will be happening all over the city. rio show casing best locations to make it all shine. over the course of 19 days athletes are going for gold in rio de janeiro. rio is hoping to shine as well. it's the first south american city to host the olympic games. organizing venues around its most iconic city itself. it's legendary soccer stadium will host the opening and closing ceremonies as well as the soccer finals. in the north home to rugby 7s and bmx and equestrian. and rio's famous copa cab anabeach will get a role in the home to beach volleyball. that's the home of the olympic park as well as the olympic

staying. this is where the world's best gymnasts, tennis players compete behind me. where michael phelps will compete. one trait of the olympic park is how compact it is. these arenas will host judo, wrestling, fencing and basketball. and they're supposed to represent the mountains of rio. this is where it happens. the world coming together in a spectacular celebration of and those venues will be opening up shortly. the olympic park isn't open to the public yet. in rioinance lechen 7 news. >> reporter: thank you nancy. carry walsh jennings aiming for her 4th olympic gold medal in rio. before they step foot on copa cab anabeach they had to get to

journey. >> the olympic zone united for over 35 years. >> reporter: embarking on the road to rio. the athletes quest for gold kicks off with a journey itself. for beach volleyball teammates carry walsh jennings and april roth. >> we leave tomorrow. so exciting. >> farewell to home in california. >> here we go. off to the airport. here's my chauffeur. >> reporter: before they head to brazil there's a stop in houston for processing. [cheering]. >> reporter: that includes everything from trying on new gear and goodies.

briefings on culture, safety and security. carry and april are off to the airport. >> i'm going to sleep if i have any amount of time. >> reporter: april faces a flight hitch. but luckily get on the same flight as carry. the athletes are eager with anticipation. and so are the fans they encounter at the airport. and then they're off. for the 9 hour overnight when the teams arrivatrio's airport they're greeted with activity. awaiting the athletes pouring in from countries all around the world. >> want to make it to the olympics athlete village. all the best in the world. >> reporter: carry and april settle into the athlete's

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>> reporter: us women's gymnastic team enters the summer olympic games on a back to back all around olympic gold medalists. an era of olympic dominance traced to one hungarian women. >> reporter: the american women face a shot at history. the u.s. has never won back to back gold in gymnastic team competition. should they do it it would be a tribute to the driving force.

>> reporter: marda core onny defected from comunist romania in 1981. they created a world around gymnastics and based it outside of houston texas. over the years no one has taken greater pains to cultivate a culture among the u.s. women. >> that's one of the carry ourselves if we lounge around. she wants us to represent ourselves well especially since we're representing the u.s.a. >> reporter: coronny said this will be her last olympics. after 50 years in the sport she's stepping away. her athletes no doubt want to send her off well equipped for

gymnastics. >> reporter: the greatest competition these gymnasts face won't come from other countries but in each other. >> reporter: the all around team competition for the women begins this sunday. on the 7 news olympic zone we'll

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you might remember her from this. >> lloyd steps up reverse shot. >> reporter: or this. >> lloyd like a hot knife through butter. >> reporter: i live for those crusher moments. the moment where everything is on the line and someone needs to come up big. this is why i train as hard as i do. i've had people who have written me off. those things give me this burning desire to want to people wrong. >> reporter: that desire was never more powerful than at the london olympics where at the start of the tournament lloyd found herself passed over for younger talent. and benched. >> i was devastated but i chose to turn it into a positive and train harder. >> today's first round match comes from glas cow scotland. >> reporter: arrived 16 minutes

>> she has been replaced here by carly lloyd. >> reporter: team u.s.a. fought back from behind. >> absolutely magnificent. carly lloyd. >> reporter: and ended up victorious. >> it was a statement i wanted to prove my coach wrong. i wanted her to know that she made the wrong decision. from that point i played every minute in the london games. >> carly lloyd with the game in front of >> reporter: when it came time for the final lloyd marched on to the field with one more statement to make. >> wonderfully crafted by the united states. >> reporter: lloyd scored her team's only 2 goals in the final to win the game. >> oh, i say what a goal by carly lloyd. >> reporter: and secure the gold for team u.s.a. >> she is having some final at i

podium really just exemplifies all the years of hard work looking down at that gold medal. it's something that i cherrish forever. i'm going to continue to fight the underdog no matter what i've accomplished. i will do that for the rest of my career. >> reporter: lloyd and her teammates look to improve to 2 and 0 is the against france.

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>> welcome to it all watch the rio olympics starting august 5th. >> reporter: welcome back to the 7 news olympic zone. here's mike terico with what's next on prime time on nbc. >> reporter: mike terico welcoming you to rio and the games of the 31st olympiad. a prw for the official start of the games. it includes an examination of the issues and concerns surrounding these olympics. on friday night. looking ahead to all the biggest events across the spectrum in rio. bob costas talked to michael phelps. ryan seacrest interviews the fen

world premiere of the music video for katie peri's new song rise. a preview of the olympic games coming up in prime time. >> don't forget we got the opening ceremony coming up tomorrow night. for the first time in his olympic career michael phelps carrying the red white and blue into the olympic stadium.

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