Is this the blackest Summer Olympics ever?

Our play cousins Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles, and Rebeca Andrade absolutely Hulk smashed the Women’s Floor Exercise Final and brought the Black Girl Sisterhood to Paris 2024. (Photo by Daniela Porcelli/Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images) It’s no secret the Summer Olympics is blacker than the Winter Olympics. After all, it’s where a Black American first won an Olympic medal — hurdler George Coleman Poage in 1904. It’s where Jesse Owens, the GOAT of track and field, basically said, “How ya like me now?” and racked up four gold track and field medals in front of the Nazis in Berlin in 1936. Where a Black woman first won a gold medal: high jumper Alice Coachman in London in 1940. Where sprinters John Carlos and Tommie Smith gave the Black Power salute to the world on the medals podium in Mexico in 1968, and where Florence Griffith-Joyner brought a “nails done, hair did, everything did” vibe to the track in 1988’s Seoul Olympics and blazed her way to gold medals and world records in the 100 and 200 meter races — records that still stand.But this year? Paris 2024? The hair alone has us in a chokehold: cornrows, afro puffs, natural curls, waist-length...