Team USA has six pairs of siblings in Paris: badminton partners and identical twins Annie and Kerry Xu, track Juliette and Bella Whitaker, pool Gretchen and Alex Walsh and Aaron and Alex Shackell, hockey Brook and Emma Deberdine, and water polo siblings Chase and Ryder Dodd.

We’re not just talking about competition. Brothers support each other through good times and bad.

“You form a bond that you don’t form with any of your teammates,” Chase Dodd told Paris 2024. “Ryder knows what I’m going to do before I know what I’m going to do and vice versa. It’s crazy.”

Canadians Antonia and Georgia Lewin-LaFrance grew up sailing in different grades but decided to compete together in the Paris Olympics.

Tom and Emily Ford used to row together as children. Now they are winning medals for Great Britain in Paris.

The Taliban has banned women from participating in sports, but that hasn’t stopped sisters Fariba and Yulduz Hashemi from cycling for Afghanistan.

French brothers Alexis and Félix Lebrun gave table tennis a big boost in their host country. On Sunday, Félix won the bronze medal match against Brazilian Hugo Calderano, who eliminated his older brother Alexis in the last 16.

Siblings Hifumi and Uta Abe won gold medals in judo on the same day at their home Tokyo Olympics, but Uta lost in her second match in Paris. Hifumi won gold in the men’s -66 kg.

“My sister lost today, so it was a really hard day for me, but I had the feeling that I had to work hard for my sister all day,” Hifumi Abe said through an interpreter. “It was difficult and painful. But I kept my emotions under control and felt that I had no choice but to do my best as an older brother.”