With his record-breaking six gold medal wins at the Winter Olympics, Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo earns the culminating Dazzler of the Day to this year’s Olympic Games. He helped Norway climb to the most gold medals of the entire Winter Olympics, an impressive feat to close out the games as we prepare to recap the glorious event in tonight’s upcoming blog post.
The opening ceremony of this year’s Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy begins today, and this website always celebrates that event as a moment the world comes together in unity. I’m not sure how the rest of the world feels about the United States right now – well, I have a pretty good idea, and it’s not at all good – but hopefully none of that bleeds through for these hard-working athletes. We’ll keep things as sexy and superficial as possible, because that’s what this site was once for, and what it may be again.
This year’s festivities are fronted by Gus Kenworthy, who returns for another run at Olympic glory, and I can’t think of a better front-man. Or back-man based on nude posts like this.
For me, the Olympics are always about the figure skating, and this year all eyes will be on the Quad God Ilia Malinin, who is aiming for Olympic Gold with his impressive litany of quad jumps, and a super-nova star quality.
Speedskaters Erin Jackson and Conor McDermott-Mostowy look to defy human speed limits, while ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates have been on Olympic ice before as seen here and here.
Finally, Adam Rippon will be playing a part in Olympic commentary, adding to the gay glamour of these games – see him in this nude spread to whet the appetite and set the stage…
The road to Milan, Italy and this year’s Winter Olympics is studded with luminaries such as our Dazzler of the Day Erin Jackson, who heads there having already broken all sorts of speed skating records, including being the first black woman to win an individual gold medal in a Winter Olympic sport from the last games in Beijing, China. She looks to add to that, and numerous other championships, in Milan next month.
Heading to the Winter Olympics as part of the USA Speedskating Team, Conor McDermott-Mostowy earns his first Dazzler of the Day crowning for exceptional speed and agility. His Instagram profile quotes a motto that has seen him all this way: “A loss is only a failure if you learn nothing from it.”
Watch him whiz by in Milan next month.
When you choose Madonna’s ‘Like A Prayer’ as the music to your short program, you’ve already won my heart; when you add in technical prowess and bravura technique, and become the first woman to land a Triple Axel in this event, you win the whole program and the US National Championship for the third year in a row. Amber Glenn accomplished that recently, setting her up for a run at an Olympic medal. That alone is enough to crown her as Dazzler of the Day as we continue on the road to Milan, Italy and this winter’s Olympic Games. (Bonus: that short program was the highest scoring program to date for a woman at the US National Championships.)
Thus continues our road to Milan, Italy and this year’s Winter Olympics! Alysa Liu, at the time of this writing, just slayed at her short program in the US Ice Skating Championship. It was a performance made more remarkable for the fact that she had retired a few years ago, and coming back in such powerful form, when athlete years equal decades, is more than enough reason for this Dazzler of the Day crowning. She’s got some brilliant competition, as will be seen in future Dazzlers, but she has a newly-found attitude of acceptance and enjoyment from the sport, which is the real reason for doing anything.
Kicking off this year’s Winter Olympics rundown to Milan, Italy is a man who’s been here before. Ilia Malinin has been on this blog’s radar for years, so his perch at the top of the world’s male competitors for this year’s Olympic Games is no surprise, and as of this writing he looks poised to cinch tonight’s National Championship title. Malinin has already been a Dazzler of the Day here way back in 2023, and the self-proclaimed (and righteously earned) ‘Quad God’ may be adding to that with more honors in the weeks to come.
Suzie has been advising on this string of dazzling footballers on the road to the World Cup. This is Virgil van Dijk, a Dutch footballer who captains Premier League club Liverpool and the Netherlands national team. (Do I have this correct, Suzie?) Virgil earns his first Dazzler of the Day, thanks to his talented work as one of the best defenders in the sport.
Christened by Gucci as one of the most stylish footballers, Jack Grealish earns his first Dazzler of the Day honor thanks to his style and panache on and off the field. Our road to the World Cup continues following Richarlison with someone just as enthralling. All work and no play makes Jack a dull, dull boy, and this Jack proves that with some wild party stories trailing in his wake.
Very few people are so uniquely talented and celebrated to be known by a single name, but Richarlison enters the vaunted realm of Madonna and Cher thanks to his impressive plays on the soccer field, and an even more impressive embrace of therapy and publicly addressing depression and mental illness. Taken together, Richarlison earns his first Dazzler of the Day honor as we begin our road to World Cup glory.
Quarterbacks don’t usually win Super Bowls all by their lonesome, and to so spectacularly trounce the Chiefs in that epic game the Eagles relied on more than Jalen Hurts, which is why Saquon Barkley earns this Dazzler of the Day. Barkley had been featured here before when we used to have a Hunk of the Day feature (and a couple of naked GIFs of him can still be found if you search hard enough). Today he is crowned as our Dazzler for the amazing work he did to propel his team to such a robust victory. You love to see it! (And you’ll love to see some of the nude shots below from his ESPN Body issue shoot.)
Helming the crushing defeat the Philadelphia Eagles just delivered to the Kansas City Chiefs in this year’s Super Bowl, quarterback Jalen Hurts more than deserves this Dazzler of the Day. It’s also worth noting that his entire management team is comprised of women, so maybe we need to see more of that secret to success. A Dazzler of the Day and the MVP in one week – pretty impressive – and he didn’t even need to bother with the attention-seeking distraction of the current FOTUS.
British racing driver and reigning European Sports Prototype Cup Champion Richard Morris nabs this Dazzler of the Day honor for feeling the need for speed and blowing away his competition. More impressively, he created the Racing Pride movement in order to promote LGBTQ+ inclusion in motorsport – which has its own inherent hurdles. Seeing someone stand up for themselves while insisting on a place that hasn’t historically celebrated diversity is always an inspiration. Check out his website here.
Proving that this beautiful brat summer of 2024 is not quite over, Naomi Osaka donned this spectacular green ruffled tennis outfit for her opening volley of the US Open, and in my mind this kicks open the door of some fun and fine fashion finally being worn on the tennis court. She easily won her set, so it doesn’t seem to impede her skills in the least, and for being brave in this and so many other ways, she earns her first Dazzler of the Day crowning.
Marking March Madness with some record-breaking magic, Jared McCain earns his first Dazzler of the Day crowning thanks to a spirited performance this past week as a Blue Devil. Of greater interest, and more potent power, is his confidence in pulling off painted fingernails in the manner of the trailblazer that he is.
