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A view of the tee markers for the Paris Olympic Games. | Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images
The SB Nation Golf team has submitted their picks for who they believe will stand on the podium on Sunday.
The Men’s Golf Competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics has arrived.
Eight of the top 10 players in the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) will tee it up at Le Golf National, the 2018 Ryder Cup site roughly 17 miles southwest of downtown Paris. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler will represent Team USA.

Washington Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin is within striking distance of Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goal-scoring record, but even if he wasn’t one of the best offensive players in NHL history, the guy is an absolute beauty.
In a recent interview, the Great 8 talked about the importance of having some beers with the boys.
According to Russian Machine Never Breaks, Ovechkin did an interview with a buddy of his, a blogger named Amiran Sardarov, and in it, he talked about having some locker room brewskis. That interview was then transcribed on sports.

One of the major controversies at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France was the decision by the IOC (International Olympic Committee) to allow two athletes with XY chromosomes to compete in women’s boxing.
As OutKick reported, “two athletes were disqualified from The Women’s World Boxing Championships after questions surfaced regarding their biological sex. This week, those two athletes will compete in the Paris Olympics — as women.

Team USA men’s basketball head coach Steve Kerr made the decision not to play Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum in the team’s Olympic opener, a blowout win over Serbia. 
The decision caused all kinds of chaos, particularly in the media. ESPN hot air balloon Kendrick Perkins said Kerr “disrespected and embarrassed” Tatum by sitting him in Team USA’s first game. 
Even Kerr said after the game that he made a mistake not playing Tatum, even though the team easily cruised to victory without him.

Korbin Albert scored what proved to be the game-winner for the U.S. women’s soccer team against Australia during the squad’s final group stage match at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday. While Albert’s USWNT teammates immediately celebrated with her following her great strike from well outside the penalty area, haters of the ‘controversial’ midfielder flooded social media in typical fashion.