Rodger Sherman

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Swedish curler Isabella Wranå

the last thing you see before you die when you're a USA curling stone in scoring position

Team USA up 1 in the final end
Sweden has the hammer
3 shots remaining
everything still up for grabs, they could win or lose or go to OT
get to Peacock

man Team USA keeps putting Sweden in bad situations in the curling and Sweden keeps getting out of them

surprise bronze for USA in the luge!

I have no idea why google translate is turning "Jeg er mensamedlem" into "I'm a member of the sorority" because it is, quite clearly from looking at the damn word, him saying that he's a member of Mensa but "sometimes I do stupid things."

after thinking about this a bit i think this guy is the final boss of Men Who Propose On The Stadium Jumbotron So She Has To Say Yes

This is a famously messy Norwegian biathlete who was banned in 2023 from the Biathlon World Cup because he accidentally fired his competition rifle in his hotel room (he was also teary and apologetic then)

Holm Lægreid tells VG that he decided to tell about the infidelity on Tuesday night. – I told her a week ago, and then it ended, of course. I'm not ready to give up. I hope that committing social suicide might show how much I love her. I'm taking the consequences for what I've done. I regret it with all my heart, he says before continuing: – Maybe I'm just stupid. I'm a member of the sorority, but I do stupid things, continues Holm Lægreid. He says he has regretted it since the day he cheated. – And then I realized that this is the woman in my life, and I can't live my whole life keeping it a secret from her. My only way to the goal is to tell everything and put everything on the table - and hope that she can still love me. I've done that for her, and now for the whole world. I have nothing to lose, says the bronze medalist.

in the history of Being Down Bad, this might be the Baddest Down anybody has ever been

(Google Translate from Norwegian to be clear)

GOLD MEDAL MATCH TIME
LET'S GO CORY AND KOREY

a Norwegian man crying on air while being interviewed, with his biathlon stats besides him

In the interview with NRK, he first started by thanking everyone who has helped him on the path to his first individual Olympic medal. And then – unprompted – he made an admission: – And then there's someone I wanted to share it with who might not be watching today. Six months ago I met the love of my life. The most beautiful and kindest person in the world. Three months ago I made my biggest mistake and cheated on her, and I told her about it a week ago. It's been the worst week of my life, he says tearfully in the interview.

new most bizarre moment of the Olympics just dropped

Norwegian biathlete wins bronze medal, then, totally unprompted, reveal he cheated on his GF, she left him, and he wants to apologize publicly hoping she takes him back

www.vg.no/sport/i/vr5g...

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This is who initially reported this story (probably important for me to properly credit since the story is about plagiarism lol)

The Mrazkovi are now using the second AI slop version of this fake song with different lyrics and I figured out the source of the melody. I don’t know if they changed it because of my work, but I’d like to think more people will notice now that AI slop made it to the Olympics. Yow!

I guess they did not have the music in them.

Becky where is the viral deep dive thread into the cultural and historical implications of various lyrics in You Get What You Give

i've been meaning to go back and figure out how they gave up 5 in an end the semis

Jets not good enough to qualify as mid

go Cats babyyyyyyyyy

not only were these skaters not disqualified for using AI music, the people in charge of figure skating specifically condoned the use of AI-generated music in the rules

meanwhile they stopped another team from choosing a song released in late 1989 for their "Style of the 1990s" routine

just going on the record and saying You Get What You Give by the New Radicals rules and everybody else is wrong

linked to your tiktok and her writeup in my newsletter but maybe could have been a bit louder about proper credit when writing specifically about plagiarism! thanks for putting together the video

Lol I made this. Didn't get much traction on tiktok so I'm glad it found its way to peoples eyes somehow but it sucks that without the caption the credit to @shanabartels.bsky.social for actually doing all the work of catching it gets lost

1. there are some restrictions about BPM and stuff like that
2. a big issue in figure skating recently has been clearing the copyright for songs. I think this pair might have assumed using AI could help them avoid that mess but instead it steered them directly into another one

Here is the Czech pair dancing to their AI rip-off of You Get What You Give, replaced for the Olympics by an AI song with “original” lyrics that sounds pretty much the same

Only one Olympic pair, the Czech brother-sister pair of Daniel Mrázek and Katerina Mrázeková, skated to AI music. But they ran into a problem — the first time they asked AI to spit out a 1990s song, it plagiarized the lyrics to an actual awesome 1990s song, “You Get What You Give” by the New Radicals. (A true banger, maybe my favorite 1990s song, tbh.) The video is STUNNING, I have no idea how they thought they could get away with it. For the Olympics, they swapped that one out for a new AI song, which also sucks but isn’t directly stolen from anybody.

wild AI story from the Olympics
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...