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This angle of Wilyer Abreu's go-ahead three-run homer against Japan 🤩 #BallparkCam | #WorldBaseballClassic

@eamslider24 @NBCSports I’m so happy and excited for you and your family! The training videos of you and your children were incredible. Congratulations!!! 🔥💪

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Elana Meyers Taylor's GOLDEN reaction says it all. 💛🥇 #WinterOlympics

Jeremy lin really should be a hall of famer for what he did for the game of basketball internationally he made history and united a culture💯

THE GOLDEN RUN FOR GU. 🥇 Eileen Gu puts down a massive 94.75 in her final run to secure halfpipe GOLD!

This performance is captivating everyone’s heart, and it’s because we yearn for art, for meaning, for beauty We don’t want to be mindlessly entertained anymore, made to consume what they think we want to watch We don’t want to be fed whatever executives think will hold our attention. We don’t want to be studied, predicted, and sold back to ourselves. So much of what we see now isn’t art. It’s market research. It’s built around the viewer, what we’ll click, what will spike engagement. But when art is shaped around the audience, rather than the heart of the artist, it loses its soul. Art only becomes meaningful when it stops asking what the viewer wants and starts expressing what the artist must say. This performance is touching our hearts because for the first time in a long time we have seen art, and art that comes from the heart of an artist, one that must perform for the sake of beauty, for the sake of love, not for the viewer, and that is why we all finally feel something

Alysa Liu’s message is so powerful and beautiful! 🤯🥳🤩

The US women are slaying - exceptional, inspiring performances by Elana Myers Taylor, Alysa Liu and Mikaela Shiffrin! They are golden. This Olympics is 🔥

@BStulberg Well said ☝️ Congrats Alysa Liu! Huge

Joy is a competitive super power. Alysa Liu retired from figure skating at 16. She was tired of not not having fun, tired of being consumed by her sport. She came back two years later with a new goal: to have as much fun on the ice as possible. And now she’s an Olympic gold medalist. Liu won her first national title when she was just 13. But by 16, after competing in the 2022 Olympics, she decided she’d had enough and stepped away. She said pressure and losing her identity trying to be an elite athlete made it all miserable. But then, she said she went on a ski trip that reminded her just how much fun she could have doing a sport. Something in her brain clicked. Maybe she could bring fun to figure skating. Maybe she could approach it in a way that could be full of joy and life and love. She unretired at 18 and won a world championship the next year. At 20, she was ready to face these Olympic games differently than in 2022. Liu went into the women’s figure skating final in third place. After her short program, she said: “Even if I mess up and fall, that’s totally okay, too. I’m fine with any outcome, as long as I’m out there.” One of the greatest competitive advantages is having fun. People love to romanticize the athlete, artist, or entrepreneur who has a chip on their shoulder, fueled by anger and resentment. But the truth is that if you’re not having fun, you are not going to last long at whatever it is you do, and you certainly won’t get the best out of yourself. There’s a foolish idea that you either have to be full of intensity or full of joy. But that’s nonsense. It’s no surprise one of the first things out of Alysa’s mouth after her free skate was: “That was so much fun!” Joy and intensity can coexist, and in the best performers, they almost always do. Alysa is unapologetically authentic and true to her values. She has said where she used to skate to win and be technically perfect, she now uses competition as a chance to show her art, to have fun, and to put herself out there. She’s a fierce athlete with an infectious sense of joy in her sport. And she broke USA's 24-year gold medal draught in women’s figure skating doing it. Excellence requires focus, determination, a little bit of crazy, at times obsession, and living a mundane lifestyle that many people would find boring. But excellence also requires that you find deep joy in your craft, that you learn how to have fun while working hard. What makes for excellence—and not just in sports, but in anything—is the combination of intensity and joy. It’s the latter that makes the former sustainable.

@NBCOlympics Congratulations Alysa Liu!! Let’s go!!! 🤩🥳🤯💯

US-SLAY! Alysa Liu is GOLDEN in Milan! 🥇🇺🇸 #WinterOlympics

@BStulberg This is truly brilliant! Shiffrin is an all-time great and a champion for the ages. Her ability to overcome everything and to share her thoughts, triumphs and struggles so candidly and with such vulnerability makes her so special. I’m blow away. Congrats to Shiffrin! 🤩🥺🥳

Keep showing up. You're never out until you're out. Mikaela Shiffrin's path hasn’t been easy. She’s endured otherworldly pressure, loss, grief, breakdowns, injuries, and failures. But she kept going. She kept being herself. Now she’s back on top of the mountain—an embodiment of excellence in every way: Shiffrin won her first gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games at the age of 18. From then on, she was a perennial favorite to win nearly every alpine ski event. She performed well in 2018, taking home another gold (and silver). In 2022, she was favored to win at least 3 golds. She didn’t come home with a single medal of any color. It was a devastating result. Shiffrin’s father, Jeffrey, to whom she was extremely close, died unexpectedly following an accident at his home in 2020. Of course this affected her skiing, but it was about so much more. In a poignant 2022 piece on her experience of grief for The Player’s Tribune, Shiffrin wrote: "It's like you have an injury in your soul. There is no timetable. There is no rehabilitation. Some days you wake up and think, What's the point?" Shiffrin continued to dominate World Cup races. In 2023, she broke the record for the most wins with 87. But then, at the end of 2024, during a crash, she suffered a severe puncture wound to her abdomen. The injury required surgery, hospitalization, and a long road to recovery—and not just physically. Shiffrin shared how she experienced PTSD from the crash, which caused her to hesitate, slow down, and feel gut-wrenching anxiety before races. But she kept going. She surrounded herself with good people. She did therapy for her body and mind. She was vulnerable and courageous. In 2025, she passed 100 World Cup wins. It’s an extraordinary number that easily makes her the best alpine skier of all time. And yet, and yet... The disappointment of the 2022 Olympic Games still loomed. Heading into the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games, Shiffrin carried all of this. The expectations. The grief. The anxiety. The injury. The success. The failure. The ever-scrutinizing public eye. It is truly impossible to understand what that kind of pressure is like. It is not a normal human experience. Especially with today’s 24-7 news coverage, social media, and opinions from armchair experts who have been no where near stepping into the arena. The start of the 2026 Games went South for Shiffrin. In the team combined race, where she and her partner were among the favorites, they finished fourth after Shiffrin's subpar slalom. She then finished 11th in the women’s giant slalom. Instead of becoming angry, resentful, or spiraling, Shiffrin celebrated her teammates. "I'm gonna call it sweetbitter rather than bittersweet, because we got to watch our teammates get a medal, which is incredible," she said. Days later, on the start line of the individual slalom race, Shiffrin took a deep breath. As I was watching, I thought to myself that inhale and exhale contained within it so much texture, so many challenges, so much pressure, so much life—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Shiffrin went out the gate and dominated her first run. And then, on her second run, she did it again. A gold medal performance. Incredible. Extraordinary. A moment for the ages. Mikaela and I first connected when she shared something I wrote a few years back: “There is no greater trap than thinking the accomplishment of some goal will change your life. What will change your life is who you become in the process of going for it.” That quote became the centerpiece of "The Way of Excellence." I know Mikaela is proud of the medal. But I bet even more so, she’s proud of who she’s become, and is still becoming. Mikaela Shiffrin embodies excellence. Excellence does not mean control. It does not mean perfection. It means the ability to meet the moment with presence, flexibility, and a next-play mindset. It’s staying in the game. It’s giving your all. It’s beginning again. It’s responding instead of reacting. It’s stepping into the arena. It’s caring deeply. It’s laying it on the line. It’s doing all this while staying grounded. While keeping your head up. While showing up as best you can. While running the race in front of you.

Legend 🥇 #MilanoCortina2026

WHERE SHE BELONGS. 🐐 #WinterOlympics

A GOLDEN MOMENT FOR MIKAELA SHIFFRIN. 🥇

Congratulations Elana Myers Taylor! 🔥💯

If Lindsey Vonn medals it will be one the greatest Olympic feats. No ACL, no problem. I’m excited to see what she can do.

Can’t wait to show you what @upstart has in store for 2026! 🤩 #thosewhostay

@CaylaMonacoF1 Merry Christmas to you too! I hope you and yours are having a wonderful holiday season! May this upcoming year be the best and most joyful year ever!

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