Kelsey Mitchell: The Canadian Cyclist Who Pedaled Past Geopolitics and Into Global Daylight By Dave’s Locker International Desk PARIS—While the rest of us were doom-scrolling through the collapse of another cease-fire and the latest crypto-scam, a 30-year-old from Sherwood Park, Alberta quietly outsprinted the planet’s fastest women on two wheels. Kelsey Mitchell’s keirin gold at…
The 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City were billed as a celebration of human excellence, a moment when the planet’s finest athletes gathered in Utah to glide, spin, and occasionally face-plant for the greater glory of their flag-bearing overlords. From the vantage point of 2024—after two decades of pandemics, populist coups, and the slow-motion…
The Curious Case of Ben Johnson: How a Sprinter Still Outruns the World’s Moral High Ground By Correspondent-at-Large, Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk There are moments in global history that feel like cosmic punch-lines, and the fall of Ben Johnson is one of the few that keeps giving—like a re-gifted fruitcake laced with stanozolol. Thirty-six years…
