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Here’s a Look at the Stunning 2024 Paris Olympics Venues
As the Tokyo Olympics come to a close, sports fans around the world look to what the next global games have in store. The 2024 Paris Olympics will be held three years from now, and arrive 100 years after the 1924 Paris Olympics. The Olympics Organizing Committee has recently revealed beautiful historic backdrops for the next cycle of competitions. The finish line for cycling events will be set at the Champs Élysées while the Champs de Mars next to the Eiffel Tower will become a beach volleyball arena. Archery competitions are held in Les Invalides, containing museums and monuments relating to the military history of France, and Taekwondo and fencing competitions reside in the Grand Palais. Horseback riding and modern pentathlon are held in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, and the P...
Here’s a Look at the Stunning 2024 Paris Olympics Venues
As the Tokyo Olympics come to a close, sports fans around the world look to what the next global games have in store. The 2024 Paris Olympics will be held three years from now, and arrive 100 years after the 1924 Paris Olympics. The Olympics Organizing Committee has recently revealed beautiful historic backdrops for the next cycle of competitions. The finish line for cycling events will be set at the Champs Élysées while the Champs de Mars next to the Eiffel Tower will become a beach volleyball arena. Archery competitions are held in Les Invalides, containing museums and monuments relating to the military history of France, and Taekwondo and fencing competitions reside in the Grand Palais. Horseback riding and modern pentathlon are held in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, and the P...
Valtteri Bottas Hopes to Outpace This Season’s Bad Luck
Valtteri Bottas came into the Mercedes Formula 1 team with the weight of expectation upon him. He was, after all, filling the shoes of outgoing world champion Nico Rosberg, who announced his retirement after 2016. Not only that, by joining Mercedes he was driving alongside the record-tying seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton. But over the last four years, it’s fair to say that Bottas has held his ground, and proven his value to the team. Aside from taking 17 poles in qualifying with his astonishing speed, the Finnish driver also stepped onto the podium an impressive 53 times, taking the top step on nine separate occasions. Yet it hasn’t been without its challenges: the driver has faced injuries, vehicle faults, and what seems like a rather persistent run of bad luck — most notably, in...
Lionel Messi Officially Signs With Paris Saint-Germain
After an emotional farewell to his lifelong club Barcelona recently, Lionel Messi has now officially signed a contract with Paris Saint-Germain. Following speculation and negotiations — in which PSG quickly emerged as the only likely destination — the news was announced through a video posted on PSG’s Instagram. While the video does not show Messi, and the caption hints at a more formal reveal to come, it features his Ballon d’Or trophies in front of the Eiffel Tower, and a vacant dressing room seat between Neymar Jr. and Kylian Mbappé. According to reports, Messi has signed a two year contract with the option of a third year. Over the course of the deal, the Argentinian player will be earning around $35 million USD a season, substantially lower than than his earnings at Barcelona. PSG hav...
TaylorMade P790 Irons Deliver Power, Distance and Feel With SpeedFoam Air
TaylorMade Golf introduces the third generation of the P790 irons. To address the mission of enhancing one of the most lavish irons they have produced, engineers launched into regenerating the technology that stands at the core. TaylorMade Golf’s proprietary technology, SpeedFoam Air, is an ultralight urethane foam that lays in the inner part of the forged hollow body fabrication. The blend of an ultra-thin face, hollow-body construction and SpeedFoam produced a forgiving route to maximum distance and playability. The addition of SpeedFoam Air holds noticeable weight savings with an average of 3.5g in individual irons. The redesign gives a sizable redistribution of mass to lower the center of gravity placement and improve launch properties. In addition, it opens the doors to the thinnest f...
Team USA Basketball Trolls adidas Athlete Damian Lillard Forced to Wear Nike
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Here’s a Look Back At the World Records, Upsets and Highlights from the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics
The Tokyo Olympics have come to an end and after two weeks of sports and over 1,000 medals, we can finally take a step back look over some of the momentous events that occurred at the gather of athletes that happens once every four years — or in Tokyo’s case, five. True, this year’s Olympic Games happened under unprecedented circumstances which delayed the event by a year, but the true essence of the Olympics was still shown countless times even in the presence of empty stadiums. This year’s top three countries from ascending order saw the United States with 39 gold medals (113 total), China with 38 gold (88 total), and finally Japan with 27 gold medals (58 total). One standout occurrence at this year’s Games was that there were a healthy number of records broken along with several heart-w...
NBA To Reportedly Investigate Kyle Lowry and Lonzo Ball Trades for Tampering
The NBA could be launching an investigation of the sign-and-trade deals of Kyle Lowry and Lonzo Ball due to possible tampering. ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne and Adrian Wojnarowski broke the news on Twitter, adding that the “NBA is expected to examine early contact on those deals ahead of the opening of free agency at 6 PM ET on Monday, sources tell ESPN.” Woj also shared that the league “elevated maximum tampering fine to $10M for teams” two years ago, as well as “opened [the] door for suspension of executives, forfeiture of draft picks and voiding of contracts. Team execs can also have their communications – such as phone records, texts and emails – randomly audited.” Lowry left the Toronto Raptors and signed a three-year deal with the Miami Heat worth $90 million USD, getting traded for Preci...
Lionel Messi is Expected to Sign With PSG
After spending 21 years with FC Barcelona, Lionel Messi is moving on and will be signing to Paris Saint-Germain F.C. where he will be joining the likes of football stars Neymar Jr. and Kylian Mbappé. The Argentinian icon has agreed to sign a two-year contract with the French franchise, and the deal includes an option for a third year. The deal has not been officially finalized yet, but the 34-year old athlete is expected to be unveiled at the Eiffel Tower in the coming days. In his FC Barcelona farewell press conference that was held on August 8, 2021, the “Atomic Flea” expressed his sincerest thoughts about his departure. “I am really sad because I didn’t want to leave because this is the club I love,” Messi stated. “I didn’t expect this. I have never lied; I have always been honest and u...
Toronto Raptors Are Retiring Kyle Lowry’s No. 7 Jersey
Kyle Lowry recently announced that he is leaving the Toronto Raptors to join the Miami Heat after nine seasons playing for the Canadian NBA team. Throughout his tenure in Toronto, he earned six consecutive All-Star appearances between the years 2015 to 2020. He also led the franchise to its first NBA championship title in 2019. The city of Toronto and the country of Canada have been a large part of Lowry’s life and the Raptors are set to honor their long-time leader with a permanent spot up in the rafters of the stadium he has played for the latter decade of this life. The Raptors chairman, Larry Tanenbaum has officially announced the retirement of Lowry’s No. 7 jersey, making him the first player to ever receive this honor for the franchise. Tanenbaum said, “He will retire as a Raptor and...
Team USA Wins Fourth Straight Men’s Basketball Olympic Gold Medal
Although preparations for the games were disrupted as a number of players decided not to participate, Team USA has claimed its fourth successive Olympic gold medal in men’s basketball. The final was a rerun of the team’s opening match, as USA triumphed 87-82 over France, driven largely by Kevin Durant. The final score made this game the tightest Olympic men’s or women’s basketball final in almost 50 years, since the Soviet Union beat Team USA by just one point in 1972. Durant continued his good form into the gold medal match, having top scored in the semi-final and surpassed Carmelo Anthony as Team USA’s top Olympic points scorer earlier in the tournament. Up against France, the Brooklyn Nets forward scored 29 points and played the most minutes out of anyone on the team. French player Rudy...
Minnesota Vikings’ Kirk Cousins Stupidly Suggests Surrounding Himself With Plexiglass Instead of Getting Vaccinated
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Icon Sportswire / Getty It’s thinking like this that is keeping the United States COVID-19 hell. NFL athletes have been complaining big time since the league made life extremely hard for unvaccinated players stopping short of mandating them to take it. Minnesota Vikings quarterback and Trump fan, according to Raw Story, Kirk Cousins is one of those hardheaded players. Despite having to quarantine after being considered a close contact to an infected player, Cousins still won’t get vaccinated against the novel coronavirus that is wreaking havoc around the globe thanks to the highly contagious and more dangerous delta variant. During a press conference on Thursday (Aug.5), Cousins told reporters that his decision not to get the shot is “personal,” and...
