Andscape at the Olympics is an ongoing series exploring the Black athletes and culture around the 2024 Paris Games.
PARIS – Welcome to Andscape at the Olympics, a video series in which Andscape columnist William C. Rhoden, senior NBA writer Marc J. Spears and Andscape/ESPN commentator Arielle Chambers discuss the key topics about Black athletes and culture at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
In this special episode, Chambers talks with Team USA women’s basketball guard Jackie Young, a three-time WNBA All-Star and two-time WNBA champion with the Las Vegas Aces. Young talks about the experience of playing in the Olympics again after the delayed 2020 Tokyo Games in 2021, her favorite non-basketball activities in Paris (0:49), what it’s like to be at an Olympic venue for track and field (1:03), finding her role on a dominant Team USA roster (1:45), what’s left on her Paris bucket list and for the rest of the year (2:59) and how she’s going to add to Team USA’s legendary reputation.
— Episode 4: Talking sprinters Noah Lyles, Sha’Carri Richardson and the 100 meters spectacle.
— Episode 3: U.S. gymnastics, Team USA Basketball’s odds of losing and sports the Games need.
— Episode 2: Talking U.S. women’s sports from gymnast Simone Biles to sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson.
— Episode 1: Talking USA Basketball, opening ceremony.
— Special episode: Recognizing author and essayist James Baldwin’s 100th birthday.