Category Archives: Olympics

Gearing up for the Summer Olympics 2024 in Paris, France, this is a continuation of our first summer Olympian found here, and it finds us splashing into the pool with Noah Williams. Partnering up with Tom Daley (a power move of itself) Williams earns his crowning as Dazzler of the Day, a title that Daley clinched a couple of years ago. Williams looks to gain some Olympic gold of his own this summer, and this sets up the water nicely. {See also Tom Daley and Matty Lee.}

The Summer Olympics 2024, hosted by Paris, France, are still a few months away, but our road to them begins with this Dazzler of the Day, Shilese Jones, who hopes to bring home the glory and the gold for Team USA as part of our gymnastics team. That group has already won the gold medal at the 2022 and 2023 World Championships.  Summer is always special – but the summers of the Olympics have even more luster to them. 

Australian gymnast Heath Thorpe has his sight set on the Olympic Games, which is about the loftiest goal an athlete can have, and as such he earns his first Dazzler of the Day crowning. As an openly-gay athlete, Thorpe also considers himself an LGBTQ+ advocate, something that has been surprisingly missing from the vast majority of the world of men’s gymnastics. Here’s to changing that for the better. 

Representing Canada, Vanessa James and Eric Redford are competing in the ice skating pairs competition, and while Radford is one of several openly-gay male skaters in the sport, James is the only Black female competing in this year’s Olympic figure skating events. Check out this article for more on the dearth of Black figure skaters at the Olympics. Today, James and Radford are crowned Dazzlers of the Day for their quick and spectacular ascension on the ice – they’ve only been together a short time compared to other teams, and in that time they’ve made themselves into a formidable pair. 

In a thrilling halfpipe routine that left the commentators breathless, Japan’s Ayumu Hirano earned a gold medal in Beijing yesterday, solidifying an ascension to the previous perch of Shaun White. Hirano is crowned Dazzler of the Day for his impressive performance, especially as his second run was ridiculously under-scored and he came back to show the judges who was boss. 

Repeating her gold win in the women’s snowboard halfpipe from 2018, Chloe Kim earned another gold medal in Beijing, handily crowning her this Dazzler of the Day in the process. Back-to-back Olympic medals, in gold no less, is a feat so spectacular I can’t quite get my head around it, other than to feel incredibly awestruck and simultaneously inspired. She is simply amazing. 

High hopes for a US Medal in Women’s Figure Skating rest on the shoulders of figure skater Karen Chen, whose free skate in the group competition pushed the US into silver medal territory. While she’s up against some formidable competition in the individual event, Chen easily earns the Dazzler of the Day for a career that culminates with this Olympic Games.