WHO’S HOT IN SPORTS

One last harvesting of great performances from the fertile field of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Have to go with Chinese female swimmer Zhang Yufei. When it comes to medals, the 25-year-old captured the most of any other athlete with 6. Albeit none were gold—with one silver and 5 bronze—but it’s still an amazing accomplishment to finish in the top three in the world in your specific athletic endeavor. That’s not easy.

To borrow the verbiage used by Tom Hanks in League Of Our Own when Geena Davis wanted to quit, saying it just got too hard, to that Hanks retorted: “It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.”

I couldn’t put it any better, so I won’t even try.

Book it, Dano!