The return of the Olympic Games means the return of 'everyone's' 'favorite' biennial sports-adjacent column: Olympics Jerk Watch, in which I apply rigorous scientific analysis to conclusively determine whether various Olympic athletes, coaches, executives, broadcasters, and hangers-on are jerks.
Let's begin the Paris edition of Jerk Watch by assessing a species of potential jerk that has become sadly prominent over the past five years: the Public Health Jerk.
One major goal of the Seine cleanup project was to make its waters safe enough that Olympic athletes could swim in its waters.
Last weekend, though, heavy rains sent a bunch of waste shooting into the river, thus raising its E. coli levels to the point that organizers decided to briefly postpone the...
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