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Olympics
Kobe Bryant was at Wimbledon on Friday, taking in the epic semifinal match between Roger Federer and Juan Martin del Potro and signing autographs between games. His day off was unscheduled, but there was really no need for the U.S. basketball team to practice when that’s about all it did the night before against Nigeria.
LONDON – Roger Federer leaned on the net, exhausted but exhilarated after winning the final set 19-17 to earn his first Olympic singles medal.
Picture this: Somewhere in Columbus, Ohio, there is a house, and in that house there is a laundry room, and in that laundry room there is a bed, and in that bed sleeps a 340-pound female weightlifter.
The raindrops splattered against the window of the bus on Thursday and Gabby Douglas smiled. When she was little, her mother would say that water from the sky was God’s way of telling us it would be a good day. She immediately texted her mother.
The chimes of Big Ben sound in the background to welcome midnight, and the lights shine against walls of history.