One helpful thing about the banning of (most) of the Russian athletes from this year's Olympics is how it relieves the poor ink-stained wretches from having to spell the names right. "Biles" is easy.
The whole GOAT thing drives me nuts. A lazy tag by so many people who "cover" sports.
I still have trouble wrapping my head around how GOAT now means the greatest when it used to mean the opposite for a particular game, etc. And it is just silly and the stuff of "hot take" journalism to arbitrarily decide which athlete is the best of all time. Maria Kondratyevna Gorokhovskaya of the Soviet Union won the first all-around gold medal in OlympicHistory in 1952. I think you covered that and earned a writer's gold for spelling her name correctly.
One helpful thing about the banning of (most) of the Russian athletes from this year's Olympics is how it relieves the poor ink-stained wretches from having to spell the names right. "Biles" is easy.
The whole GOAT thing drives me nuts. A lazy tag by so many people who "cover" sports.
I still have trouble wrapping my head around how GOAT now means the greatest when it used to mean the opposite for a particular game, etc. And it is just silly and the stuff of "hot take" journalism to arbitrarily decide which athlete is the best of all time. Maria Kondratyevna Gorokhovskaya of the Soviet Union won the first all-around gold medal in OlympicHistory in 1952. I think you covered that and earned a writer's gold for spelling her name correctly.