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Louisa Thomas

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@newyorker staff writer. Author of 3 books, including Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams. Co-editor of Losers.
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Victor Wembanyama Towers Over the Thunder, and the Game of Basketball

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By Louisa Thomas 
| The New Yorker
So outlandish are Wembanyama’s skills, and so anomalous his physiology, that people commonly refer to him as an alien. It fits. But what comes through when you watch him is his humanity. So much of his game exists not only in psychological dimensions but also in spiritual ones. He meditates before free throws. He cries, he listens closely, he becomes indignant. To ready himself for the demands of the season, he spent ten days training with monks at a Shaolin temple in China.
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The Transformation of Elina Svitolina

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By Louisa Thomas 
| The New Yorker
Sometimes it is hard for Elina Svitolina to find the motivation to get on a tennis court. She wakes up and checks the news from Ukraine, and she sees that Odesa, where she was born, has been bombed, or that another swath of Kharkiv—the city where she turned herself into the greatest player Ukraine has ever produced, and which is just miles from the Russian front—is in rubble.
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The Fastball Has Never Been Faster

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By Louisa Thomas 
| The New Yorker
There have been power pitchers throughout the game’s history, of course: Bob Feller, Bob Gibson, Walter Johnson. Randy Johnson once accidentally exploded a bird with his fastball. Nolan Ryan threw a hundred miles per hour, on his way to a record 5,714 strikeouts. But Ryan was an outlier. No one else was doing it.
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