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I do look at this as an opportunity to try and provide a real moment of celebration, because I think it’s a gosh-darn feat and a triumph to have been able to make work at all and get to this moment in time.

Your G’pop and I attempted to take this detour fifty-one gosh-darn years ago.

And soon enough they were recruiting folks from beyond their guitar-band milieu: Rihanna for “Princess of China,” Avicii for “A Sky Full of Stars,” the gosh-darn Chainsmokers for “Something Just Like This,” which remains Coldplay’s most-streamed track on Spotify with more than 1.6 billion plays.

And behold, it’s Ryan Reynolds playing an ever so upbeat guy named Guy living in a colorful chaotic world that is the creation of — bet you’ll never guess — those gosh-darn invisible outside forces.

“I think it’s a second-and-a-half dance that you do hundreds of times and it’s really repetitive, but gosh-darn, I do think it’s a dance. It’s poetry. It’s balance. It’s grace. It’s power,” Allman said, and all of those virtues together are what defined her performance Monday night to give the U.S. track and field team its first gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics — and its first gold in women’s discus since 2008.