Olympians get warm send-off in Anaheim ahead of Paris Games – Orange County Register

Members of the U.S. men’s and women’s volleyball teams pose for a photo on stage with other Olympians and civic leaders during a farewell event for the Paris Summer Olympics at the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center in Anaheim on Saturday, July 13, 2024. The U.S. 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 U.S. national volleyball team, during a farewell event for the Summer Olympics in Paris at the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center in Anaheim on Saturday, July 13, 2024. The U.S. volleyball teams are based in Anaheim. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Members of the U.S. women’s national volleyball team (left to right), Jordyn Poulter, Avery Skinner and Annie Drews, sign autographs during a farewell event for the Summer Olympics in Paris at the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center in Anaheim on Saturday, July 13, 2024. The U.S. 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 farewell event for the Paris Summer Olympics at the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center in Anaheim on Saturday, July 13, 2024. The U.S. men’s and women’s volleyball teams are based in Anaheim. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Ursula Bohen, left, holds Staciana Stitts’, right, gold medal in swimming, which she won at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, as members of the men’s and women’s volleyball teams, left, sign autographs during a farewell event for the Summer Olympics in Paris at the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center in Anaheim on Saturday, July 13, 2024. The U.S. men’s and women’s volleyball teams are based in Anaheim. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Swimmers Staciana Stitts (left) and Brian Goodell (right) smile as Olympic fencer Miles Chamley-Watson (center) speaks during a farewell event for the Summer Olympics in Paris at the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center in Anaheim on Saturday, July 13, 2024. Members of the U.S. men’s and women’s national volleyball teams, based in Anaheim, also attended the event. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Ursula Bohen (center) poses with U.S. women’s national volleyball team head coach Karch Kiraly (right) as members of the men’s and women’s teams sign autographs during a Paris Summer Olympics farewell event at the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center in Anaheim on Saturday, July 13, 2024. The U.S. men’s and women’s volleyball teams are based in Anaheim. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)