Given the many rumors that the swimming pool in Paris was “slow” during the Olympic Games and the Leon Marchand breaking four Olympic records in front of a home crowd, I wondered: How much does the host nation’s pool influence local swimmers? Whether you’re competing in your home pool at a high school or college […]
This Olympic cycle was quite unusual. For the second time, the traditional four-year cycle was not a four-year cycle: while the Tokyo cycle was extended to five years, this time only three years were available to prepare for Paris. Due to the pandemic, many major events, including the World Championships originally scheduled for 2021 and […]
The 2024 Paris Olympics were exciting to watch for so many reasons: the inspiring medal wins from players like Katie Ledecky and Simone Biles, Steph Curry’s endless three-point shots at the U.S. team’s games, and our real-life American superhero Stephen Nedoroscik’s jaw-dropping pommel horse routine. The games gave us dozens of viral moments, and while […]
The Paris Games ended on Sunday with the Americans at the top of the medal table. The two weeks in the French capital marked the first COVID-19-untouched Summer Games since Rio 2016 and one of the most successful Olympics ever for Team USA, which tied with China with 40 gold medals and 126 total medals. […]
