From the first medals being handed out to a ridiculous celebrity-politician crossover you didn’t know you needed, here are the top stories from Paris.
Author: Michael
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Sorry, Rose Bowl. We’ve found a better sunset.
While athletes from around the world are flocking to Paris in hopes of winning Olympic gold, Italy’s flag bearer already lost a bit of gold in the deep, not-as-sewagey-as-it-once-was waters of the Seine.
High jumper Gianmarco Tamberi — who famously split the gold with Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics — was given the honor of being his nation’s flag bearer during Friday’s opening ceremony, but perhaps that flag waving got a little too vigorous, and it led to Tamberi’s wedding ring flying off his finger and into the river.
Team USA’s Gretchen Walsh reminded everyo
After a low-scoring first half, Germany outscor
The 2024 Paris Olympics are officially underway. Here’s what is happening on Day 1 of the Games.
The U.S.
How much money are you going to be making over the next four years? If you’re Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love, that answer is $220 million.
Yup, you read that right. After his first full season in which he barely got the Packers into the playoffs, Green Bay made Love one of the highest-paid players in NFL history. (If I could go back in time and tell my younger self what career path to take, I wouldn’t hesitate to tell him he should be a quarterback).
Now that Love has got his massive pay day, that means that the 2020 quarterback class has raked in some serious cash.
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