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Big Break

April 11, 2024

Breaking will make its debut as an Olympic sport in August. The competition will take place at the largest public square in Paris, France. It’s sold out. But when breaker Sunny Choi tells strangers she’ll be competing at the Olympics,…

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Messi in Miami

January 18, 2024

Lionel Messi is the greatest living soccer player. He might be the best ever to have played the world’s most popular game. He led Argentina to a World Cup win in 2022. And on July 21, 2023, he made his…

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The Slugger

March 2, 2023

In late September, Aaron Judge stood in the batter’s box at Yankee Stadium. Forty thousand fans went quiet. The pitcher wound up. Judge smacked the ball deep into the left-center-field bleachers. It was his 60th home run of the season.…

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The Greatest

September 22, 2022

This month, Serena Williams played what might have been her final match. It was at the 2022 U.S. Open Tennis Championships, in New York City. She has played the sport professionally for 27 years. Now, she has decided to step…

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Finding Her Way

February 18, 2022

After coming home from the 2018 Winter Olympics, in South Korea, Chloe Kim put her gold medal in the trash. (It didn’t stay there long.) Kim was struggling. She was a new celebrity. She had become the youngest female Olympic…

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Chasing Greatness

February 16, 2022

Last fall, about 60 NBA scouts visited a new sports arena in Atlanta, Georgia. On the court, coaches led players through drills. The scouts whispered to one another about the players they were excited to see. It was “pro day”…

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Alex Morgan Strikes Back

June 11, 2019

When Alex Morgan was 8, she left a note for her mom at their home in Diamond Bar, California. “Hi Mommy!” Morgan wrote. “My name is Alex and I am going to be a professional athlete for soccer!” She signed…

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Powerful Pitches

April 29, 2016

For much of baseball's history, pitchers rarely threw a ball 100 miles per hour (m.p.h.). But over the past 10 years, more pitchers have been coming closer to 100 than ever before. Among pitchers who threw at least 40 innings…