Lauren Price’s journey to becoming a two-time Olympic medalist is one of perseverance, versatility, and quiet dominance in sports. Born in Newport, Wales, on June 25, 1994, Price first made her mark as an amateur boxer before transitioning to the track and field world of the heptathlon. Her career trajectory is a testament to adaptability…
Katarina Johnson-Thompson and the Existential Burden of Being Good at Too Many Things By Our Correspondent, still jet-lagged from a connecting flight that smelled of duty-free gin and surrender LONDON—While the rest of us were perfecting the art of opening a bag of crisps with one hand and doom-scrolling with the other, Katarina Johnson-Thompson (KJT…
The Global Ballet of Anna Hall: How One Heptathlete Became an Unlikely Geopolitical Chess Piece In the grand theater of international sport, where nations perform their carefully choreographed dance of peaceful competition while simultaneously stockpiling weapons behind the curtain, Anna Hall has emerged as an unexpected protagonist. The 22-year-old American heptathlete—whose greatest crime appears to…
In a world currently measuring success by the number of crypto-bros who’ve accidentally set fire to their own yachts, Nafi Thiam has quietly become the only metric that still matters: ten events, two days, one Belgian heptathlete who can apparently bend the laws of biomechanics to her will. While the rest of us were doom-scrolling…
Katarina Johnson-Thompson and the Quiet Rebellion of Persistence By our correspondent in the Departures Lounge, watching nations argue over whose Wi-Fi is slowest There’s something deliciously subversive about a Liverpudlian heptathlete becoming the planet’s most understated act of civil disobedience. While the rest of us scroll through collapses—climate, currencies, collective sanity—Katarina Johnson-Thompson keeps showing up,…
