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After the weirdness of thepandemic-era Tokyo Olympics, the Summer Gamesare back in a big way.
Wevebeen watching intently, and we dont plan on turning our screens off anytime soon.
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Which brings me to the discus.
What is more Olympian, more purely athletic, more gruntingly elegant than that?
But the newness of the sport is part of what makes it so exciting.
Work at your actual job!
interrupted by sudden, heart-stopping feats of athleticism and pure luck.
Frankly, this is the kind of perspective I think the world could use.
I mean here in the United States, of course.
Especially when it comes to our international womens team, which has been ranked No.
(Though they were paid far less than the mens team current rank No.
16 until just last year.)
But the women of Team USA havent won gold in the Olympics since a three-in-a-row winning streak from 20042012.
But basketball is becoming an increasingly democratized sport, and the margins are rapidly narrowing.
But when other countries give them a run for their money?
Thats the stuff classic sports movies are made of.
Did they splash a lot?
Ooh, thats not good.
Dressage is a sport in which rich people make their horses dance.
WithBrody Malonenursing a 2023 knee injury, this year, the men went into the finals as underdogs.
Their only hope was 26-year-old bespectacled Rubiks Cubesolving pommel-horse specialist Stephen Nedoroscik.
I was personally endeared by the bro handshakes they gave each other once they got off the mat.
Brody, dude, youre an animal, bro, is their version of Suni Lees That wasfire.
Zoe Haylock
