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DETROIT -- The Chicago White Sox lost their post-1900s, major league-record 121st game Friday night, falling 4-1 to the Detroit Tigers.

The White Sox broke the mark of 120 set by the New York Mets in 1962 in their first season. The Cleveland Spiders hold the overall record, going 20-134 in 1899.

Specifically:

• Reducing (or removing) the minimum reaction time in sprint events
• Measuring long jump from the place actually jumped
• Measuring pole vault based on height actually achieved rather than bar height
• Javelin use of flags to avoid bothering with measuring obviously-shorter throws than an athlete's best
• A 1-mile steeplechase
• New camera angles/use of drones for footage

I clicked on this expecting it to be about FSU, but nope, it's from that other Florida team.

Funny stuff.

The indelible moment came from Steph Curry, who made four uber clutch 3-pointers in a two-minute second stretch of the fourth quarter to turn away a French uprising. Curry assured his first gold with a ridiculous fall away bomb, silencing the home fans with his "put them to sleep" trademark move.

That was an incredible ending. Final score was 98-87, USA.

Really, really glad she won gold after how much shit she's put up with these last few weeks.

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"Olympics medalists by place of birth so far. Geographic distribution of medals clearly reflects global inequality.

Interactive version: https://edjnet.github.io/OlympicsGoNUTS/2024/medalists_map.html More context and same map for previous Olympics: https://edjnet.github.io/OlympicsGoNUTS/

(still a work in progress, data from @wikipedia and @wikidata ) #Olympics #Olympics2024 #rstats #ddj #dataviz"

I'm not massively into the Olympics, personally, but I have to admit, I wanted a gold medal for Sha'Carri Richardson more than any other American athlete. After watching admitted potheads like Michael Phelps with a dozen of them, and the mountain of research confirming how low-risk (and not a PED) marijuana is, it incensed me that she was disallowed from participating back in 2020.

Still, second-best on the planet is still pretty effing good. Kudos to her.