Abby Levene

@indicatorfn Really?

LFG!!!

@JWLevitt @ajoneswilkins Correct, sorry just updated that!

@ajoneswilkins I hope it’s the former. Will ask @Levene_Machine!

This is a running contract likely in the range of $100k-$250k. Shoe brands are making a ton of money these days; love to see the athletes getting a piece of the pie. run.outsideonline.com/general/tara-d…

Unavoidable but real bummer that my “engage with my silly little sports hobby” app is also my “the world is ending app”.

Great work per usual from @erinstrout!

USA’s Quincy Hall GOT THAT DAWG IN HIM winning Olympic Gold in the 400m after running the 5TH FASTEST TIME IN 400m HISTORY of 43.40. That’s the 1st Gold medal in the event for the USA since 2008. Everything about his comeback was SOLID LIKE METAL GEAR.

big week for the glasses community

@d9monti @CitiusMag I’m assuming he means a lifestyle shoe 🤷🏻‍♀️

@CitiusMag He's right, of course. Spike sales are tiny compared with the sales of running shoes, basketball shoes, and casual shoes. But could a sprinter lend his name to a shoe designed for 5-K's, 10-K's and marathons? That's an interesting question...

🗣️ “I want my own shoe. I want my own trainer. I’m dead serious. I want a sneaker, ain’t no money in spikes. There’s money in sneakers. Even Michael Johnson didn’t have his own sneaker. I feel like for how many medals we bring back, for the notoriety we get, the fact that that hasn’t happened is crazy to me. I was like, ‘Yeah, that needs to happen.’” After winning the Olympic 100m gold medal, @LylesNoah is hoping that he can get his own signature shoe – not spike – shoe. 🎥 FULL PRESS CONFERENCE: youtu.be/XCTjbyvJLos?si… #Paris2024 #Olympics #Athletics

@jasongay Found cycling later in life but has been a phenomenal athlete since she was little. That monster engine from year-round swimming for the win!

Kristen Faulkner's Olympic gold caps an astonishing ascension. She is the definition of a late bloomer. She did not race bikes in college. She got a finance job. Rode Central Park. She didn't turn pro until 2021. Her whole story is so bonkers and now this!

I hope every cyclist chasing the dream watched Kristen Faulkner win the gold medal today in the road race. If you haven’t, go watch it. I believe her story all the way up until this year is one that we all can relate to. She found cycling later in life. She took the path of most resistance to chase what she wanted. She came up short many times. She had opportunities taken away. She was left of selections to races. She even lost things she had earned. But no matter what she kept going. Kept focused. Kept trying. And most importantly, kept MAKING OPPORTUNITIES. But today IT DID WORK OUT. And the best part, it worked out exactly the way it should have. This is what she has been doing all along, just now she has it mastered (aka Vuelta stage, National title, now Olympic Gold.) So keep doing you. Keep grinding. Keep failing. But most importantly know that each time you try hard and come up short you have taken another step closer to your biggest win ever. And just like Kristen, it’s probably bigger than you could ever dream of.

Cool 100m men’s intro. Why didn’t women’s 100m get it? 🤔

*chapeau, spoken like a dumb American

NBC makes it very hard for other media outlets to cover #Paris2024 but I gotta admit from the Gold Zone to Primetime in Paris, this content is much-watch TV. (Minus the commercials which have been terrible.) Suddenly Léon Marchand, who is French, is an American hero. Chapeaux!

How your email finds me.

@TheRealMerb Allison Mercer, who suggested it, did!

I don’t think anyone could have possibly predicted how fun it is to have Grant do the sideline reporting

Hear me out @NBCSCycling. Daily Tour highlights videos but with: 1. Commentator stage predictions 2. Scenery 3. Historic landmarks 4. @PhilLiggett & @bobkeroll witticisms 5. @sporino’s roadside finds 6. What happened in the race

Inside the booth with Phil Liggett and Bob Roll for Mark Cavendish's 35th Tour de France stage win. #TDF2024

"If I speak too long, I'm going to cry" @PhilLiggett #TDF2024 @MarkCavendish After coining the "Manx Missile" nickname and commentating all 35 of Mark Cavendish's Tour de France stage wins, Phil Liggett reflects on the moment.

Your once every 4 years reminder that Katie Ledecky is the most dominant athlete alive