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    Here Are the 2024 Olympic Moments We Won’t Forget

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    It doesn’t take a medal to make a lasting memory.Success and failure. Exhilaration and agony. Gold, silver and bronze.The Olympics will always turn on who won and who lost, how high and how fast and how far. But they linger in our minds long after they end for moments that might have little to do with the actual competitions.The QueenAbbie Parr/Associated PressJordan Chiles and Simone Biles came up with the plan. They had both wanted to be on the top step of the medal stand after the final event of the women’s gymnastics competition, the floor exercise. But Biles, the favorite, had made a few mistakes, and Chiles had made a few more, so they instead became bookends to the true headliner: Rebeca Andrade of Brazil. And so a plan was hatched.After Chiles accepted her bronze medal and Biles her silver, Andrade was introduced as the Olympic champion. As she approached the podium — completing the first all-Black podium in Olympic gymnastics history — Biles and Chiles turned to Andrade, dropped to one knee and bowed. Afterward, they called her a queen. — JULIET MACURMore CowbellMaddie Meyer/Getty ImagesAfter Bobby Finke won the 1,500-meter freestyle in world-record time — preserving American men’s 120-year streak of winning at least one individual swimming gold at the Olympic Games — the NBC cameras panned to a particularly excited fan. She screamed. She pumped her fists. She clanged her cowbell.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Snoop Dogg, NBC’s New Voice of the People

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      The network hired the rapper for an expanded role on its broadcasts of the Summer Games in Paris after posting record-low viewership of the Tokyo competition.Once Snoop Dogg had waded through electrical cords on the floor and ambled his lanky frame around the disorderly equipment in a partially constructed television studio in Paris, he was able to peer out over a balcony overlooking the Eiffel Tower and survey the city he hopes to conquer during the Olympics.“This is my home,” he said triumphantly to himself. Below, a handful of people flashed their phones.The man who NBCUniversal hopes will become the breakout star of the Paris Games was right where he wanted to be.The Olympics are always about the athletes, and as usual the focus this year will be on the brightest ones: Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky, Noah Lyles, Novak Djokovic, LeBron James.But the event’s billing as the pinnacle of athletic achievement has not been enough to prevent NBC’s Olympics television ratings from skidding amid a fractured media landscape, and the network hopes Snoop Dogg’s aura as one of the most recognized and beloved figures in pop culture will energize viewers of all ages.Ratings for the Summer Games have dropped steadily since an average of 31.1 million prime-time viewers watched the 2012 London Olympics. NBC executives cite pandemic-related restrictions and an unfavorable time zone for Americans as reasons the Tokyo Games averaged 15.5 million prime-time viewers, its lowest audience ever.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More