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Follow our Olympic coverage in the lead-up to Paris.The glow of Caeleb Dressel’s seven gold medals might suggest otherwise, but he knows swimming can be a brutal and stifling sport.He is without a doubt one of the best in the world at his job, dashing from one end of the pool to the other (and sometimes back). He holds the world record in the men’s 100m butterfly, a historic honor he first captured from Michael Phelps in 2019. A world record in events, he won 5 gold medals in 5 events.Still, Dressel was in pain.He focused on where he believed…

Enzo Fernandez and other Argentinian players sang a racist song about France after their Copa America final win, and the most telling thing about the film is the sound you hear at the end.“Corta (el) vivo,” someone said, “stop live streaming.”they know. They know what they are talking about. They know what they say is deeply offensive, and they know what will happen if outsiders hear it.This is not one of those things that can be equivocated. This is not something that can be denied. The lyrics are clear and we know them because the song has been around for…

My name is Lee Isaac Chung and I am the director of “Twisters.” So this is a scene that happens about halfway through the film. Internally, we would always say this is T4, tornado number four, because we number each of our tornadoes. And Kate is played by Daisy Edgar-Jones. And then we have Tyler played by Glen Powell. Other interesting actors in this sequence, we have James Paxton, who is actually the son of Bill Paxton. You only see him very briefly. He’s the man in the couple who try to drive away from this tornado. No! Stop! And…

Follow our Olympic coverage in the lead-up to Paris.ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — LeBron James was genuinely excited to see Stephen Curry in the Bellagio hotel ballroom in Las Vegas on the eve of Team USA training camp.Born in the same hospital in Akron, Ohio, nearly four years apart, they were co-authors of the last great NBA rivalry and co-residents of the league’s Group C as two of the most famous, respected and Honored current players who will serve as teammates for the first time as co-CEOs of the U.S. Olympic team outside of a meaningless All-Star Game.When they…

Follow our Olympic coverage in the lead-up to Paris.For years, the voice of “The Star-Spangled Banner” has been omnipresent in Olympic swimming pools.From the 1992 Barcelona Olympics to the pandemic-delayed 2021 Tokyo Olympics, the U.S. swimming team has won more gold medals than any other national team. As Team USA won the gold medal on the podium, its national anthem played over and over again. The last time the U.S. didn’t win the most gold medals at a single Olympics was in 1988, when the U.S. finished second to East Germany. All swimmers currently on the roster died at the…

They gathered in a 100-year-old Gothic church-turned-recording studio just blocks from the Vanderbilt University campus in Nashville. Eighty-five musicians circulated through the sanctuary with brass, wind and percussion instruments to contribute to a unique mission: record a song that echoes the grandeur of college football’s video game return.The spring rain outside is like thunder, and the cicadas are chirping incessantly. In it, the band composed “Campus Clash,” the theme song for EA Sports College Football 25, arguably the most anticipated sports video game of the past decade.Steve Schnur, global CEO and president of music at Electronic Arts, believes the sport’s…

TRON, Scotland — Question after question comes to Scotty Scheffler every day about whether he would leave the Masters if his wife gave birth to their first child. The entire week revolved around this emotional crossroads in his life. People and Us Weekly followed the story like celebrity gossip. here at Competitorwe even wrote a story about Scheffler taking the lead Saturday night without his wife, Meredith, by his side.The baby will be born in one month.When Bennett was finally born in May, an ESPN reporter vaguely revealed the news using the hashtag #babyborn. The PGA Tour announced the news…

The black gates at Hard Rock Stadium’s southwest entrance were closed for an hour and 45 minutes as a young child was carried on the shoulders of a guardian among the crowd waiting to watch the America’s Cup final.The boy waved to the police and security guards standing by the single door, which was opening to let people into the stadium. He clasped his hands together as if in prayer, imploring them to let him in.”Please,” he said. “please.”As a security guard reached out and pulled the boy and his guardian toward the open door, the boy breathed a sigh…

Wimbledon – This is not a passing of the torch. It’s more like grabbing a torch and sprinting around the bends before running down the road for a mile or two.Carlos Alcaraz narrowly defeated Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon men’s final last year, taking advantage of rare errors from the 24-time Grand Slam champion in five sets that lasted nearly five hours. Win the battle.He smuggled the title away. On Sunday, he hammered, danced and lobbed his way to a second consecutive Wimbledon men’s singles title. It was a 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (7-4) victory over Djokovic and his surgically repaired…

NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — The 16th green at the Renaissance Club sits low down a sloping fairway near the Firth of Forth, too low to be seen by the golfers who spent five minutes standing on the Scottish dune grass. Minutes before batting. They know nothing about metal spikes or hidden sprinklers. For their part, Robert McIntyre nearly bowed out of the Scottish Open, two strokes behind Adam Scott with three holes remaining. The Scot’s dream of winning the National Open would have to wait another year. But here they were, still standing around the green, waiting patiently, with courtesy…