**The Olympic Schedule: Why the World is Glued to Their Screens** Alright, folks, let’s talk about the Olympic Games—because if you haven’t noticed, the internet is buzzing with excitement over the schedule. Whether you’re a casual viewer or a die-hard sports fan, the Olympic schedule has become the hottest topic of the summer. But why?…
# **Tom Daley: The Dive That Broke the Internet (and a Few Hearts)** If you’ve been online in the past few days, you’ve probably seen the name “Tom Daley” trending everywhere. But why? Is it because he’s the latest TikTok sensation, a viral meme, or perhaps a new K-pop idol? Nope! Tom Daley is a…
Noah Eagle, the 24-year-old American play-by-play prodigy who sounds like he was grown in a secret ESPN lab, has been dispatched to Paris to call Olympic basketball for Peacock—NBC’s streaming platform that most viewers still locate somewhere between “settings menu” and “why is my credit card bleeding?” His assignment appears straightforward: describe grown millionaires in…
**The Last Lap of Innocence: How Cole Hocker Became the World’s Accidental Metaphor** In a world where Olympic medals are minted by Nike and national anthems play like Spotify ads between events, Cole Hacker’s 1,500-meter ambush in Paris feels almost quaint—a throwback to when human beings could still surprise us without a TikTok teaser campaign….
In the grand geopolitical circus that is Planet Earth 2024, where wars are crowd-funded and elections are decided by whichever septuagenarian can stay awake the longest, the most subversive act of rebellion might just be a 26-year-old Russian who smashes tennis balls instead of ballot boxes. Meet Andrey Rublev—world No. 5, part-time abstract expressionist with…
**The 200-Meter Dash Toward Oblivion: Amy Hunt and the Beautiful Futility of Going Fast** In a world where billionaires rocket themselves into the thermosphere to feel something—anything—and where the Doomsday Clock stands at a sprightly 90 seconds to midnight, British sprinter Amy Hunt has chosen the refreshingly honest pursuit of running very, very fast in…
George Mills: The Everyman Who Became a Global Meme PARIS—Somewhere between the 17th arrondissement and a hastily booked Ryanair flight, George Mills became the planet’s latest cautionary folk hero. The British amateur runner who collided with Team USA’s Grant Holloway in the Olympic 5,000-meter heat is, depending on which algorithm you ask, either a clumsy…
Amber Alert: One Woman, 400 Metres, and the Planet’s Brief Obsession By our correspondent, still recovering from a four-year hangover called “Tokyo 2020+1” PARIS—In the grand carnival of human self-congratulation known as the Olympic Games, it takes remarkably little to make the world press pause on the apocalypse feed. This week the globe’s collective thumb…
Amy Hunt, the 22-year-old British sprinter who last month clocked 22.42 seconds over 200 m in California, is being hailed from São Paulo to Seoul as the latest proof that the human race can still outrun its own mediocrity—at least for 22 seconds, give or take a tailwind. Track statisticians, a subspecies that treats every…
Jackie Young and the Quiet Art of Winning While the Planet Burns A dispatch from the end-of-days desk, somewhere between the Eurozone and the next recession The name Jackie Young doesn’t scream geopolitics. It isn’t chanted in Davos corridors, whispered in Brussels backrooms, or hashtagged by tinfoil influencers predicting the collapse of fiat currency. And…
Jess Hull: The Quiet Aussie Who Just Taught the World to Run Scared of Its Own Stopwatch By Our Correspondent, Somewhere Between a Berlin Beer Garden and Existential Despair Paris, 7 August—In the grand amphitheater of human folly that we call the Olympic Games, where nations bankrupt themselves for the fleeting dopamine hit of a…
SYDNEY McLAUGHLIN-LEVRONE: THE LAST HAPPY THING BEFORE THE FIREWORKS FACTORY BLOWS By the time most of the planet wakes up, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has already done something that would make an Olympic demigod blush and a hedge-fund quant reach for new algorithms. On a humid Thursday in Paris—while half the world argued on social media about…
