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One swimmer, a slow pool, and the biggest world record jump in 25 years.
Pan Zhanle did the unthinkable on Wednesday in the men’s 100 meter freestyle. The 19-year-old didn’t just break the most difficult world record in swimming, but he smashed it by 0.4 seconds — and beat second place by 1.08 seconds, a full body length. What has ensued from that moment is, in a word, ugly. There have been allegations of doping from one side, claims of racism from the other, and in the middle the inescapable reality that what ensued simply doesn’t make sense.

Are you ready to watch the Bears and the Texans face off for the Pro Football Hall of Fame game?

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But will this actually do anything?
The NFL is a copycat league, and last year the motion that was copied around the NFL was the “cheat” motion used by the Miami Dolphins. Tyreek Hill (very fast) would run quickly away from the formation right before the snap, just stretching the motion rules of the NFL. Very quickly, teams like the 49ers and Rams took it on, with Niners’ head coach Kyle Shanahan giving it the “cheat” name.
Well, the NFL might be trying to get the motion out of the game for good.

Angela Carini, the Italian female boxer who bowed out of today’s Olympics match against Imane Khelif after taking two blows to the face, was fighting for her late father in a now-viral, recently resurfaced, and heartbreaking video from months ago.
For those who missed it, Khelif is the boxer who was caught last year “pretending to be” a woman after a series of DNA tests. 
The controversial boxer disposed of Carini so quickly, that if you blinked, the fight was over. Carini forfeited the fight after taking two shots to the head in the opening seconds.

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Let’s talk about the most terrifying events in the Summer Olympics for ordinary people to compete in.
The Olympics are the greatest worldwide showcase of athleticism and competition in existence. It’s such a joy to see athletes train their entire lives for a specific event, and then finally get a worldwide audience to show off their talents. We marvel at Olympics athletes because they do things ordinary people can only accomplish in their dreams.
If you really think about it, a lot of Olympic events are absolutely terrifying.

One of my favorite things about the Olympics is that a lot of us spend two weeks learning about and obsessing over sports we only watch every four years, and that means we usually have a lot of questions.
Some enterprising reporters working for the Today Show‘s website set out to answer some of these including one that never crossed my mind until I saw their article: how do gymnasts avoid getting a wedgie with the entire world watching?
I never really thought about this, but it’s a good question.

More Olympic triathlon athletes are speaking up about their horrendous ordeal that they experienced during yesterday’s event. The issue at hand was that Paris’ Seine River was so badly filled with harmful bacteria and literally feces due to an antiquated sewage system that is so bad that French citizens have been banned from entering the water since 1923.
So what’d the Olympics do? Of course, they would have some of the best athletes in the world compete in it. Who knows, maybe they are trying to form a new breed of X-Men mutants.

It’s unlikely that Bam Adebayo needed any extra motivation ahead of Team USA’s matchup against South Sudan at the Olympics, but ESPN’s Brian Windhorst may have provided some anyway.
After Jayson Tatum was benched for the entirety of Team USA’s win over Serbia, many wondered if there was another player on the roster who would suffer the same fate against South Sudan on Wednesday. Windhorst suggested that player may be Adebayo, but he couldn’t have been more wrong.

Colorado seems pretty interested in building social media clout.
The Buffaloes were an abysmal 4-8 in Deion Sanders’ first season as the program’s head coach, and it was a disaster down the stretch.
The team started hot after going 3-0 to open the 2023 campaign. It went off the rails from there and the team won just one of its final nine games.
You’d think the team would eliminate all distractions in an attempt to improve. You’d be wrong.
Deion Sanders‘ squad now has practice jerseys that feature social media handles instead of their actual names.

Tommy Paul fought hard, but couldn’t take down Spain’s ascendent king of clay, Carlos Alcaraz.