Ashish Gaonker

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Zidane looking at his son giving up a hat trick to Messi the way Asian parents look at their son when they graduate with a liberal arts degree

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

The 6th straight World Cup where France has more combined players (French team + other national teams) than any country.

Total of 98 French-born players at the tournament (or ~8% of 1,248 total players on 48 teams): 23 on France and 75 on other teams.

FIFA eligibility rules allow players to play for other countries based on “clear connections” (eg. citizenship and parental lineage).

Many of the French-born players on other national teams are playing for former French colonies in Africa:

◽️Algeria (13)
◽️Haiti (12)
◽️DR Congo (11)
◽️Senegal (10)
◽️Ivory Coast (8)
◽️Tunisia (7)
◽️Morocco (6)
◽️Cape Verde (3)
◽️Ghana (3)
◽️Egypt (1)
◽️Spain (1)

How did France become such a global football powerhouse? The story dates back to French policies set in the decades after WWII.

France needed to rebuild but was short on manpower. So, it brought in millions of workers from Eastern Europe and its African colonies (more migrants went to France than any other European country in the period).

In the 1960s, even more immigrants arrived (including from the Arab World and the Caribbean). In the same period, France failed to qualify for a number of World Cup tournaments. So, the country launched the French Football Academy to better train and scout talent (it became among the world’s best).

Many immigrants (or children of immigrants) have gone through the French football program and the first major pay off for the program was in 1998.

When France beat Brazil to win the World Cup that year, it was led by Zinedine Zidane (Algerian parents) and Patrick Vieira (born in Senegal).

Today, the French roster doesn’t have enough slots for all the players, so they join other national teams.

A majority of the 26 players on France's roster have African roots...and every single person that scored today in France vs. Senegal is French-born with African roots (Kylian Mbappé, Bradley Barcola, Ibrahim Mbaye).

A roster of the best French players that *didn't* make the team could easily be a World Cup contender.

After France, the most-common birthplace of players in the World Cup is from Netherlands (67), England (49), Germany (48) and Spain (36).

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Vox has a good video on this history: https://t.co/Gq3r6JFsjF

More details via The Athletic: https://t.co/YjGm33BEcz

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

Claude Code leaked their source map, effectively giving you a look into the codebase.

I immediately went for the one thing that mattered: spinner verbs

There are 187

[NBC Olympics & Paralympics @NBCOlympics]

The Sha'Carri stare. 👀 #ParisOlympics

[Ryan Els @RyanEls4]

A positive start to the coding day 🦆

[Sportwalk Media @sportwalkmedia]

🇮🇳🥉 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗕𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗭𝗘! Many congratulations to the men's hockey team on securing a second consecutive Olympic Bronze medal after previously winning it at 🇯🇵 Tokyo 2020.

🔥 The Indian men's hockey team last won back-to-back Bronze medals in the 1968 and 1972 Olympics.

🏑 Final score: India 2 - 1 Spain

👉 𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 @sportwalkmedia 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗢𝗹𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰!

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Vinesh Phogat's stunning victory! #VineshPhogat #Paris2024

[Satish Acharya @satishacharya]

The wall of India, Sreejesh! #Sreejesh #Paris2024

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

BREAKING: 🇷🇸 Novak Djokovic has completed tennis.

1 x Olympics Gold Medal 🥇
and
10 x Australian Open 🇦🇺
3 x Roland-Garros 🇫🇷
7 x Wimbledon 🇬🇧
4 x US Open 🇺🇸
7 x ATP Finals 🏆
8 x year-end No.1s
2 x Career Golden Masters
1 x Davis Cup 🇷🇸
428 weeks at No.1 (most ever)

#Paris2024  #Tennis

[A.R.Rahman Loops @ARRahmanLoops]

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[NBC Olympics & Paralympics @NBCOlympics]

Julien Alfred became St. Lucia’s first Olympic champion EVER after winning the women’s 100m and it’s a moment they’ll never forget. 🇱🇨 #ParisOlympics

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Wrong.

[Sagar @sagarcasm]

First Indian male to enter an Olympic badminton semi final. Lakshya Sen is smashing history.

#LakshyaSen

[FYNX | Smart Finance News @FynxNews]

India Stuns Australia 3-2 in Historic Hockey Win at Paris

India's men's hockey team created history by defeating Australia 3-2 in their final Pool B match at the Paris Olympics 2024, ending a 52-year wait for a win against the Aussies. Abhishek and Harmanpreet Singh (2) scored for India, while Thomas Craig and Blake Govers scored for Australia. This thrilling victory propels India to second spot in Pool B with 10 points from 5 matches. #IndianHockey #HistoricWin #ParisOlympics2024 #IndiaVsAustralia #Hockey #TeamIndia #OlympicGlory #HockeyFever

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Senior developer from elite uni vs self taught developer (pink shirt)

[Wasim Jaffer @WasimJaffer14]

Made it look like stealing Kandy from a baby 😉 SL needed 9 off 12, then death bowlers Rinku and SKY took the game to super over in which Washi gave just 2 runs and India won with ease. Very well played and congratulations on 3-0 👏🏼👏🏼 #SLvIND

[Saurabh Dashora @ProgressiveCod2]

Be careful with your AWS EC2 instances😉

[Paul Graham @paulg]

What's uniquely hard about running a startup is that you don't merely have to endure adversity, but have to solve intellectually difficult problems while doing so. It's like trying to find integrals while being chased by a lion.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Because startups are so much harder than they look, a lot of people think that successful startup founders just got lucky and had piles of money dropped in their laps. But this is so not true. Between t=0 and piles of money, they deal with novel crises every couple months.