You could search all you want through Olympic swimming history and not find one grade school anywhere that has produced two two-time Olympic swimmers. Except one: Little Flower in Bethesda, Maryland where I went to school and flamed out as an athlete at 14 circa 100 years ago. Last night Little Flower prodigy Phoebe “Phenom” […]
The Prime Minister of France today announced that American basketball and pop culture superstar Caitlin Clark will carry the Paris Olympics torch into the stadium for the opening ceremonies and light the torch. “Can you believe how stupid those Americans are leaving Caitlin off the Olympic basketball team?” he said. “The French can be accused […]
There’s nothing better, I mean nothing better, than the following three names: Summer Sanders, a U.S. Olympic swimmer in 1992; Rowdy Gaines on the team in 1984 and now broadcasting the U.S. Olympic trials with insight and passion that elevates the entire event; and Summer McIntosh, a 17-year-old Canadian who broke Katie Ledecky’s 13-year unbeaten […]
You will be thrilled and perplexed by a whole new range of Summer Olympics events coming up in Paris, many you’ve never heard of before but will be mesmerized by. There will be events mixing one sport with another simultaneously, and all sorts of combinations and permutations that will make this summer the most entertaining […]