He's called Kyle, has immaculate teeth, slicked-back hair and looks about 24. Are we sure he's an actual person and not the product of someone typing "Stereotypical American businessman" into an AI image-generator?
The caption provided by Alamy to go with this stock image is (and I wish I was making up the first bit) "Serious handsome man extending one finger to stop you, telling you no, giving warning".
Per the Whyte Review and various similar probes, I think a lot of other countries just assumed that if breaking people was the way you succeed in WAG then they should do it too.
It was even presented as a positive, evidence of just how utterly dominant she was. "So far ahead of the competition that she can fall twice and still win."
And that one person's experience of an incident may be very, very different to another's. One of the things I found a little jarring about Aimee Boorman's book is the way she stakes her claim on the moral high ground when it comes to a gymnast-first approach that is non-abusive and...
Probably true of dominant teams in pretty much any sport. The almost-unique problem that WAG has is that the elite athletes in question are often literal children when the not-being-nice is going on, and I have the crazy woke liberal snowflake notion that physically and/or mentally breaking a...
Neither of these examples are anything like the situation with Indonesia, though. One was a training camp - you don't have to go to the US to train, you do have to go to the worlds to compete at the worlds. The other is an unfortunate red tape mess where an individual athlete has been caught out...
For the Europeans this year, they only put the less-good seats on sale in the first phase. Front and centre ones came online later. Annoying, as it punishes dedicated, organised fans who want to make sure they get a ticket by buying early.
The Athletic: Simone Biles says she’ll be at 2028 L.A. Olympics ‘in some capacity’
But what will that capacity be?
Flame-lighting?
Inside the mascot costume?
Selling snacks on the concourse at the handball arena?
Archery?
Snoop Dog-style roaming punditry?
other (suggestions welcome)