A day before South Sudan’s men’s basketball team celebrated its first-ever win at the Olympics—trouncing Puerto Rico 90-79 on July 28—the team went viral on X for their sharp suiting at the opening ceremony, created by Rwandan designer Moses Turahirwa.
An Italian high-jumper loses his wedding band in the Seine and is extremely cute about it
Gianmarco Tamberi, a flag bearer for Team Italy, took to Instagram on July 27 with a confession—and an apology—to his wife: The night before, he had watched his wedding ring bounce into the Seine during the opening ceremony. “I’m sorry, my love, I’m so sorry,” the high-jumper wrote in Italian. “I felt it slip away, I saw it fly…. I followed it with my gaze until I saw it bounce inside the boat. A tinkle of hope… But unfortunately the bounce was in the wrong direction.”
Yet Tamberi managed to give the whole ordeal a romantic spin. He continued, charmingly: “But if it really had to happen I couldn’t imagine a better place. It will remain forever in the riverbed of the city of love, flown away while I was trying to raise the Italian tricolor as high as possible during the opening ceremony of the most important sporting event in the world. If I had to invent an excuse I would never have been so imaginative. May it be a good omen to return home with an even bigger gold!!!”
Team USA wins its first medals
