From Gabriella Papadakis' — a 2022 Olympic champion, a 2018 Olympic silver medalist and a 2024 Olympic torchbearer — recent instagram post:
"3,000 years ago, the Olympic Games were born in ancient Greece. In 1894, a Frenchman named Pierre de Coubertin made them popular again.
A little over thirty years ago, my mother, who loved Greece, met my father there, who was born in Athens. They got married in France a few years later, and my father left Greece to see me born.
The day these photos are taken, the Olympic flame, which had left Olympia, is being passed into the hands of France in preparation for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. I am the first French athlete on the route, representing the handover between the two countries.
The Olympic dream came relatively late in my life. When I was little, I saw myself as a writer. Then ice skating took over, everything flew by very quickly, and ironically, I couldn’t have invented a more beautiful story."
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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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this is purely for fun and I've certainly been guilty of a few of these things myself in my years of fic writing. don't be weird in the notes and don't use this as an excuse to insult someone's writing.
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