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Caeleb Dressel USA | Courtesy: Swimswam | Jack Spitser Photography

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THE BEST OF US: Bob Bowman USA | Director of Swimming | University of Texas | Austin Texas | USA

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This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

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Henriette Jaeger NOR Wins the 400 in 49.52

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The IOC doesn’t believe Olympic athletes should be paid.

Their own financial statements however highlight that athlete compensation is well within reach.

Yesterday, Global Athlete published an interim policy proposal on Olympic athlete compensation.

The proposal breakdown ⬇️

💰USD $25,000 Games Participation Indemnity for every Olympic athlete, totalling $262.5 million per Summer Games
📊 This represents a small fraction of five separate IOC financial streams:
→ 22% of 2025 investment income, annualised across the four-year cycle
→ 30% of 2025 net operating cash flow, annualised across the four-year cycle
→ Less than 6.4% of current undesignated reserves
→ 8.1% of Paris 2024 broadcasting revenue
→ 44.5% of the IOC’s own retained share of Paris 2024 gross revenues

🔗Read the full proposal https://t.co/SVhUCqU4AA

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The Best of Us: Gunhild Maria Larking SWE Melbourne 1952 Olympic Games

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French Open 2026 / Roland Garros France

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Harry Kane on his relationship with Thomas Tuchel: "We have a very good relationship, which started at Bayern. In fact, he was one of the reasons I signed there. At Bayern, I absolutely loved his personality, his ideas for the team, and the way he utilised me on the pitch. In a way, he has successfully translated those methods to the national team." [@lequipe]

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U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) will convene a committee hearing titled, “Protecting College Sports: Supporting Student Athletes, Restoring Fair Competition, and Saving the Games Fans Love,”  on Wednesday

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The Best of Us: Jilke Michielsen BEL 19 Cyclist Belgium National Team Multiple Championship Victories Past away after a long battle with bone cancer

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IOC head Kirsty Coventry says the other day: “I don’t believe in paying athletes.” Why? Athletes are the show. IOC generates billions from athletes’ labor. Sponsors make money. So does TV, the IOC. Why not pay athletes directly? 70% go to only one Olympics. Their lone chance.

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Ferrari’s stock (RACE) dropped 8% on May 26, 2026, erasing over $5 billion in market value. This steep decline followed the company's debut of its first fully electric supercar, the Ferrari Luce, which features a polarizing minimalist design by former Apple design chief Jony Ive.

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BREAKING NEWS: Liverpool and Arne Slot part ways