If you can't access the New York Times article, it's on the Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20230627090032/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/sports/olympics/belgium-hurdles-jolien-boumkwo.html
And the video is here: https://twitter.com/EuroAthletics/status/1672621749379416068

I imagine that the mole told his friends about the alien encounter, but they didn't believe him. "That thing drew me right up into the air, and then set me down in a whole other place!"

Oh yeah, some private corporation is going to offer us UBI (universal basic income) paid in cryptocurrency in exchange for everyone in the world's individual identification and personal data, controlled by artificial intelligence. Good luck making that work.

Getting two little girls dressed for school in the morning drove me crazy, so I instituted a system where they selected all their outfits on Sunday, hung them up with labels, and were not allowed to deviate all week. Then we saved even more time when they went to parochial school and wore uniforms. Every little stress reliever was worth its weight in gold.

Still no offers for my Spiro Agnew watch.

I bet they had to explain to each participant that Meta is Facebook.

That cupcake was good. It was so sweet that I'm glad I only saved one for myself.

Kind of like the difference between a laden and an unladen swallow.

I also asked him, weren't the Senegalese pissed off that the Gambians claimed both sides of the river? He told me that wasn't them, it was the French and British during colonialism. The Gambians and Senegalese get along fine, and share things like utilities and sports teams.

This bring back memories. I actually worked at an oldies radio station in the mid-80s that played 78s. That meant music from the early 20th century. Songs were only about two minutes long, sometimes less, and I was the only woman on the air staff, so getting to the far away ladies room during a song was a challenge. I eventually gave up and dared into the men's room.
Years later, I found myself at another station that actually had a wax/vinyl disc cutter in the equipment storage room. It was from the days when that was the only way to record ads, direct to wax. I'm sure anything recorded there was quite wavy and distorted.