Griner Leads Team USA in Paris Summer Olympics

Brittney Griner. Photo via Facebook.

The 2024 Summer Olympics open this weekend in Paris, with several high-profile LGBTQ athletes participating.

The U.S. women’s basketball team is by far the gayest squad in the games. More than half the team — six players and two coaches are out.

Team USA is led by two-time gold medalist Brittney Griner, competing in her first Olympics since being freed from a Russian prison last December. 

“BG is locked in and ready to go,” Griner told NBC News. “I’m happy, I’m in a great place. I’m representing my country, the country that fought for me to come back. I’m gonna represent it well.”

Griner’s wife Cherelle recently gave birth to a baby boy that Griner said will call her “pops.”

The website OutSports compiled a list of more than 150 LGBTQ athletes in the Paris games, the majority of which are female. At last count, the U.S. had 29 out athletes.

Aside from Griner, British diver Tom Daley is probably the most recognizable gay Olympian. The 30-year-old won a gold and bronze medal at the 2020 games in Tokyo. He is married to American screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, best known for writing the Harvey Milk biopic, and together the couple have two children through surrogacy.

The opening ceremony of the XXXIII Olympiad is July 26 at 1:30 p.m. EST. The games conclude Aug. 11. NBC has the broadcast rights.

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