#Olympics

Brian Williams just called covid the largest mass-death event in modern times and I am really tired of people forgetting that from 1997-2005 over 2 million died from HIV/AIDS every
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Reposting my thread since I can’t rt the original post. A Yaqeen researcher made the argument that comparing Chinese oppression to the Holocaust “isn’t necessarily helpful and may be based
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Leon's death calls to mind the '76 U.S. Olympic team. Leon @ 178, Michael @ 165, Ray Leonard @ 139 w/ a pic of his gf on his sock. Leo
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Yesterday the House once again failed to vote on any legislation to deal with COVID. In fact, we adjourned session so the GOP could offer Rudy Giuliani a platform to
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Thread: 1/ Recently, issues related to pervasive sexism and gender inequality led to public uproar in Japan and from global media. These issues are not new, but they now collide
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Today marks the beginning of #BlackHistoryMonth . As a coach, I think it's appropriate to highlight important Black athletes through history and the impacts they made to society outside of
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1. Here’s a thread I’m going to call ‘The Strange True Story of the Stolen Steve Ovett Statue’: 2. When I moved to Brighton 25 years ago I noticed a
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On the question of Russia sanctions - and putting on my historian's hat - the following two considerations come to mind. 1) In the short term, sanctions can and do
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Today I learned...The white man in this photo was Peter Norman from Australia who finished 2nd the 1968 200m final. Norman stood in solidarity with the American Black athletes. It
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In all seriousness, the zoomer queer language cop discourse is a product of a failure to understand subordination theory in its entirety. This isn’t their fault, because millennials have taken
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Did you know the great Lev Yashin played against Mohun Bagan? - Throughout its long & storied history, Mohun Bagan has played against many foreign teams. It can be argued
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2020 was the first year since 2001 in which a British male athlete failed to break the 8m barrier - what has the last 20 years of elite male
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In the Gamestop saga, the media has loved telling the story of how Retail made a lot of money from Hedge funds. The reality is entirely different, almost everyone apart
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NIGERIAN PLAYERS IN THE BACK STREETS OF EUROPE (2)How come our players are now good enough to play only in India, Cyprus, Uzbekistan, Belarus, China etc?Let's continue with the thread
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Why are we still having a conversation about equal distances in cross country? asks @tomwilliams1974 I'm not sure of the answer but here are some thoughts about the history: @run_equal
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@Supercomputing @SCCompSC FAQ 1: What is the Student Cluster Competition (SCC)? A thread. Now in its 14th year, the SCC brings teams of 6 undergraduate students from around the world
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