Dr. Gloria Beim will be treating American athletes at her fourth Olympic Games next month.
Dr. Gloria Beim examines Jacob Riser at the Gunnison Valley Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Clinic in Gunnison, Colorado, on Thursday, June 27, 2024. Beim will be traveling to the Paris Olympics next month to be Team USA’s head physician. When she was a kid, Dr. Gloria Beim dreamed she’d one day attend the Olympics. In July, she’ll go for the fourth time — though not as an athlete.
She’ll make another trip to the upcoming Summer Games in Paris, which start July 26, as Team USA’s head physician. When she worked the Athens Games in 2004, Beim expected she wouldn’t get another opportunity. At the time, few doctors who weren’t on the Olympic committee’s permanent staff got to travel for two Games, she said.Since then, Beim has taken care of athletes at the Olympics in London and Sochi, in southern Russia, as well as at the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Beijing and Pyeongchang, South Korea., overseeing 77 providers caring for 235 athletes competing in the Winter Games.
About half of the 58 medical providers traveling with Team USA, including Beim, are volunteers, though the Olympic committee covers their airfare and other expenses that go with living overseas for two weeks. Even without pay, competition for the positions is tight, and most doctors who’ve gone to the Olympics once apply again, said Jon Mason, spokesman for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee.
Most of the volunteers work in the U.S. clinic or training center in the Olympic Village, treating athletes from every sport, Mason said. A few take on more specialized roles when an event is far away, as will be the case this year, when the For example, a colleague she met during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London introduced her to using ultrasound to diagnose sports injuries, and now she frequently uses that option with her regular patients at Gunnison Valley Orthopedics, she said.
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