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1 | Imane Khelif | 6,746,991 | Would be nice if the Olympics (#3) propelled an athlete to the top of this list simply for excelling in sport. Instead, the gender controversies that are all the rage nowadays manifested once Imane Khelif, an Algerian boxer competing in the women's 66 kg division, won her opening bout in less than a minute, with just one punch. | ||
2 | Simone Biles | 4,580,661 | Three years after a much hyped appearance in the Tokyo Olympics that didn't pan out because she felt ill during the initial competitions, the most decorated gymnast in history is dominating the gymnastics competitions in Paris like she did in Rio, having won three golds in team, individual all-around and vault, and has become the most successful U.S. gymnast in the Olympics (and third overall) with ten medals, seven of which are golden. Her closest competitor is another Black gymnast from the Americas, Brazilian Rebeca Andrade, who won a gold in Biles' absence in Tokyo, but so far only managed to gain two silvers and a bronze. | ||
3 | 2024 Summer Olympics | 3,486,142 | France receives the biggest multi-event sport in the world, mostly in host city Paris, but with some sports being held in 15 other Metropolitan France cities, and going as far as Tahiti for the surfing competitions. 32 sports are being contested, including the debut of breakdancing, and for the third time a controversy made Russian athletes compete with a different collective name. After the Russian doping scandal led to them being the Olympic Athletes from Russia and the Russian Olympic Committee, this time the Russian invasion of Ukraine propelled a ban of just about every Russian and Belarusian athlete, and the select few who could enter are competing as Individual Neutral Athletes. | ||
4 | Deadpool & Wolverine | 3,467,395 | Again the Marvel Cinematic Universe provides a movie full of nostalgia, fanservice and multiversal shenanigans. Only this time it's far from family-friendly entertainment, as the transition of the X-Men from the Fox film series to the Marvel Studios stable is led by the ultraviolent and potty-mouthed anti-hero Deadpool, who tries to prevent the destruction of his universe by teaming up with the most famous of the Mutants, Wolverine, who in spite of being another Canadian fond of bloodshed, is not as welcoming to the buffoonery of the "Merc with a Mouth". The combined power of Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in their signature roles, along with the usual action and comedy (only more graphic this time around - there is a man getting his skin ripped off and over 100 F-bombs!) and added tributes to many past Marvel movies, led to Deadpool & Wolverine becoming a smash hit, with positive reviews and massive box office intakes - the $200 million budget alone was covered by the North American opening weekend, and analysts think a billion dollars worldwide is very possible, in spite of high content ratings. | ||
5 | Kamala Harris | 2,522,226 | The American vice-president is now officially the Democrats' candidate for the 2024 United States presidential election, quite progressive to rely on a Black woman (no matter if the competition questions her ethnicity). Expect the next edition to have high views for her and the guy Harris chose as her running mate. | ||
6 | Katie Ledecky | 1,951,185 | Two American women returning to Olympic glory. Ledecky is the most decorated female swimmer ever, and in her fourth Olympic appearance reached 14 medals with the four she got at #3, including gold in both the 800m and 1500m freestyle races. Lee was the gymnastics team standout in Tokyo once #2 bailed out, winning the all-around competition, whereas this time she shared the team gold with Biles and was behind her and Andrade in the all-around podium. | ||
7 | Sunisa Lee | 1,604,952 | |||
8 | Michael Phelps | 1,590,737 | Two athletes not competing at #3 but present in Paris for other reasons. Phelps is the male equivalent of #6, who became the most decorated Olympian ever by dominating the pools in four different games (this after not winning anything in his debut!), with 28 medals and only 5 of them not being gold; this year, though, his appearance rather included a video with Snoop Dogg, who is showing up in a lot of competitions. Owens will never be an Olympian, given American football is far from entering the programme, but was cheering on wife #2, which always leads to amusing pictures, since he's one head taller than her. | ||
9 | Jonathan Owens | 1,382,247 | |||
10 | India at the 2024 Summer Olympics | 1,295,100 | No surprise in seeing this here, or that the country did not perform well in spite of its huge population. Still, the first week of #3 had three bronze medals from shooting, two with air pistols and one with rifles. Near medaling was achieved with fourth places in both shooting and archery. As a sidenote, the Indian flag bearers at the opening ceremony were two people good with rackets: shuttler P. V. Sindhu (who didn't get her third Olympic medal due to falling in the first round of the playoffs) and Sharath Kamal of table tennis. |
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