Gold Medals & Melanin: 12 Black Athletes We’re Watching At The 2024 Paris Olympics

Oui love to see it!

We’re here to celebrate the 2024 Paris Olympics but have to point out that being Black in the United States can be an emotional rollercoaster. On one hand, you get to witness and celebrate milestones like the first Black president getting elected, or the first Black woman Vice President now running to become the first woman president. On the other hand, you turn on the news and get word that yet another unarmed Black person, most recently, Sonya Massey, was gunned down by a cop who should have been in that line of work in the first place. It’s a lot.

But then comes the Olympics and you can’t help but root for everybody Black.

Everyone knows athletes work really hard at their respective sports, but when it comes to the Olympics, you can times that hard work by a trillion. They don’t mess around in the pursuit of all-gold-everything, and we love to see it.

It’s game time for the 2024 Paris Olympics. While we know the superstar names such as LeBron James, Brittney Griner, A’ja Wilson, Steph Curry, Simone Biles, Sha’Carri Richardson, Noah Lyles, Jordan Chiles, and Coco Gauff, there are so many more Black athletes that we should celebrate.

Flip through the slides for 12 Black athletes to watch at the 2024 Paris Olympics.