Shout out to Alice Dearing, the first Black female swimmer to represent Team GB at the Olympics
Alice is 1 of only 3 Black British swimmers of any sex or gender to achieve this.
Tennis
How did human beings become the best—and fastest—throwers on the planet?
Is there any stopping pitchers from faster throws?
Data viz of all the EURO 2020 goals
At the time of writing, this only shows the group stages but I expect there’ll be more to come. (via FlowingData and Twitter)
A visualisation of nearly 900,000 passes from 890 soccer matches
I wonder how many of those came from Pep Guardiola.
Timelines of every NBA player who has played at least one game
More players have had short stints with teams now than ever before.
Nicoline Sørensen on women’s soccer and engineering
The Everton and Denmark forward spoke to The Engineer about her engineering studies and how she balances the two disciplines.
Simone Biles wins a record 7th national gymnastics title
And this isn’t even her final form!
Data on Le Tour
Make your own data visualisations with over a century’s worth of Tour de France data.
Glorious: a new platform that celebrates women in sport via art and culture
Join the club and watch the culture in play.
I stand by Naomi Osaka
I’m just writing something here so I don’t get fined.
Montreal’s Biodôme was an Olympic velodrome in 1976
It’s literally a concrete jungle (in one section at least).
Best places to surf in Mexico
Surf’s up, Big Kahuna!
Sporting CP are champions and I’m buzzing!
Remember when Sporting were 2-0 to Belenenses SAD and clinched an injury-time penalty equaliser? Well, things have progressed since then… they’ve finally won the Primeira… Read More »Sporting CP are champions and I’m buzzing!
Roger Federer playing other sports
This guy can do everything!