Category: Olympics

Jonathan Owens celebrated a Bears fumble by miming Simone Biles’ landing pose

Jonathan Owens wholeheartedly loves Simone Biles.

With Jonathan Owens playing for the Chicago Bears this season, that means Simone Biles — his all-time Olympian wife — is usually in attendance to support her husband. And it’s pretty clear that any time Owens makes a significant play, he’s going to pay proper tribute to her.

On Sunday, with the NFC North rival Minnesota Vikings threatening to punch the ball into the end zone on a promising opening drive, Owens forced a fumble on Vikings running back Aaron Jones.

To celebrate the turnover, Owens gathered his Bears teammates in the end zone and mimed Biles’ signature landing pose.

Fantastic stuff.

Owens is a classic wife guy through and through. You gotta love it.

Who is Jake Paul’s girlfriend? Meet Jutta Leerdam, an Olympic athlete.

Meet the girlfriend of the boxer and YouTuber.

Jake Paul isn’t the only athlete in his relationship.

The YouTube star and boxer is dating Jutta Leerdam, a speed skater who won silver in the 1000m for the Netherlands in the 2022 Beijing Olympics. The pair made their relationship Instagram official back in 2023 on the social media site (see below) and we’ve seen her at his fights ever since, cheering him on from the crowd.

She’s also posted about how proud she is of him taking on boxing, as you’ll also see below: “You inspire me so much with your work ethic, the way you think big, and your crazy determination. You are special [Jake]. My champion.”

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A tearful Jordan Chiles says she still has the Olympic bronze medal she’s fighting to keep

As she fought back tears, Jordan Chiles explained why she still has her bronze medal.

Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles still has the Olympic bronze medal that dominated headlines this summer. In a tearful interview with Today, Jordan spoke about her emotional journey after the Paris Olympics and why she’s still holding on to the medal.

Many may never know what Chiles has been experiencing behind the scenes as she continues to fight for the right to keep the bronze medal from her floor routine after it was stripped away. But, on Monday, she spoke with Hoda Kotb about her continued battle and why it means so much.

During a tearful interview, Chiles revealed what’s happened since Paris, the support she’s received and why her bronze medal means more to her than even the gold medal she won with Team USA. Here’s part of what she shared in a nearly ten-minute segment:

“It was like a cherry on top. My redemption tour going into Paris was — ‘Yes.’ Coming back with a gold, coming back with the understanding that I was able to go out there and be the best version of myself — With this floor medal it was like, ‘Wow, I never expected myself to make a floor final’…

“Plus it was an all Black podium. That was history being made. I was very glad to be a part of…”

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Notre Dame guard talks Olympic experience with former Irish player

Great to hear a present Irish player laud a past one.

[autotag]Cassandre Prosper[/autotag] missed most of her first full season with Notre Dame with an injury. However, making Canada’s Olympic women’s basketball team was a nice consolation prize. Even better, she was teammates with [autotag]Natalie Achonwa[/autotag], another name familiar to anyone who’s followed the Irish over the past 15 years.

Prosper sat down with Crina Mustafa of Her Hoop Stats to talk about a variety of topics, but her Olympic experience with Achonwa was a real highlight of the interview. Prosper specifically talked about how much she was blown away by Achonwa not only as a leader and mentor to the younger players on the team but also as a mother.

After Canada went winless in three Olympic contests, Achonwa retired as a player and was hired at Michigan as its assistant coach for player development. Clearly, Achonwa was preparing for this next chapter in her life while in Paris.

You can view Prosper’s entire interview here starting at 16:39:

With the Olympics finished, all Irish fans will be anxious to see how Prosper contributes to a team with national championship aspirations. Only time will tell.

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Noah Lyles posted a precious engagement video with fiancée Junelle Bromfield

Congratulations are in order for Noah Lyles and his girlfriend, Junelle.

Track and field Olympian Noah Lyles is an engaged man.

During Lyles’ whirlwind 2024 Paris Olympics, his girlfriend, Junelle Bromfield, was by his side as he ran his way to a gold medal and became the fastest man in the world. At the time, Lyles said, “I got pretty big plans for a celebration,” which might have meant spending the rest of their lives together.

Lyles and Bromfield shared videos on their social media Sunday of heir recent engagement, Bromfield’s gorgeous ring and huge smiles of joy. There were also a lot of flowers, candles, and even mini-fireworks to make the occasion. Congratulations to the happy couple!

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Flavor Flav gifted Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles a bronze clock in heartwarming moment at MTV VMAs

Can’t take this one away.

Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles had a heartbreaking end to her time in Paris this summer. The IOC stripped Chiles of her floor routine bronze medal over a scoring issue following a series of controversial decisions by the judges and gymnastics governing bodies.

Chiles took to the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards on Wednesday alongside Flavor Flav, and the Public Enemy rapper had a surprise for the athlete. Flav was extremely involved in the Summer Olympics, sponsoring the women’s and men’s water polo teams and attending several other events.

After the ruling came down that would take Chiles’ medal, Flav told the gymnast that he would give her one of his iconic bejeweled clocks. He came through, presenting Chiles with a bronze bedazzled medal replacement and telling her that he’d also cover the prize money ($15,000).

It was a wonderful moment.

 

Steph Curry and 8 other celebrities (Jordan Chiles!) courtside at Aces-Liberty in New York

Steph Curry, Jordan Chiles and a whole bunch of high-profile folks came to see the Aces and Liberty hoop.

The New York Liberty are no strangers to having famous people in the building. But on Sunday, celebrity row was packed with Olympians and sports figures.

Steph Curry was courtside at Barclays to see his pal and 3-point partner Sabrina Ionescu take on the Las Vegas Aces. Jordan Chiles was also in the building, rounding out an impressive few days in New York. (She threw out the first pitch at a Cincinnati Reds-New York Mets game and even walked the runway in a Kim Shui show during New York Fashion Week.)

But the celebs didn’t stop there. Steph’s lifelong splash bro, Klay Thompson, stopped by, as did Dawn Staley, Paige Bueckers and several other athletes. It was a full-on celeb party, and the game didn’t disappoint. The Liberty came from behind to beat the Aja Wilson-less Aces and continue its dominant season.

Here’s Steph Curry and eight other celebrities who were out to the Aces and Liberty hoop:

Steph Curry — Olympian, Golden State Warriors

Jordan Chiles — Olympian, Team USA gymnastics

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Klay Thompson — Olympian, Dallas Mavs

Devin Booker — Olympian, Phoenix Suns

Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd — UConn women’s basketball

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Dawn Staley — Head coach, South Carolina women’s basketball

Claressa Shields — Olympian, Boxer

Dereck Lively II — Dallas Mavs

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Simone Biles revealed why her flag handoff with Tom Cruise was the most stressful part of the Olympics

“Don’t mess it up. Don’t mess it up.”

Simone Biles won a staggering four medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics. But she says she didn’t feel any pressure while earning them. There was another moment that was way more nerve-wracking for the GOAT of gymnastics — handing off the Olympic flag to Tom Cruise.

I’m not kidding. That’s an actual sentence. Simone Biles was incredibly uneasy about the flag handoff with Tom Cruise because she didn’t want to botch it. During a recent appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Simone recapped her fantastic Olympic run with Jimmy when he asked her about carrying the Olympic flag during closing ceremonies.

Jimmy mentioned that he thought it had to be a lot of pressure, including not tripping in front of the world, and Simone agreed. Then, she revealed why it was so much pressure, saying, “I’m always tripping, falling down stairs — like, bad for me. So, actually that’s like the most nervous I was for the whole entire Olympics. I was like, ‘Okay, I have to hand the flag off — like, don’t mess it up. Don’t mess it up.’ I was terrified.” (See the 1:23 mark of the YouTube video below.)