Fearless dreamer. Nimble mastermind. Spunky boffin.

Kyle Whelliston was all of these things and so much more. Over the course of thirty-one years, he wrote 2,359 articles and essays for various online and print publications, as well as some books. As per his last will and testament, all 2,902,792 of his life's words have been collected here, in one place, for eternal posterity. Keep his flame alive. This is the Whelliston Memorial Library.

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What Price Whistler
SQUAMISH, B.C. — Is there a perfect host city for the Winter Olympics? The way the festival has developed over 86 years and 21 iterations, it should be a large metropolitan area at the foot of a great mountain. Or, perhaps, at the very top of one if geography permits. And there must be lots of land for Nordic skiing, and black-diamond grade trails to zoom down.

Gymnastics at London 1948
The decision to hold the gymnastics of London 1948 in Empress Hall, site of the wrestling and weightlifting, was a last-second one. The events were originally supposed to be held outdoors, in the infield of Empire Stadium… but the dominant English weather pattern (torrential rainstorms) prevented this. Because the tiny arena did not even have a scoreboard, results were relayed by megaphone.

97. Ayumi Hamasaki (浜崎あゆみ) - Step You (2006)
She wasn’t a natural pop star. She had a long name, struggled with traditional music training in the big city, and didn’t have the prettiest voice. She made several unsuccessful demos that went nowhere. Then a talent scout found her, she signed to a major label, and she began releasing singles. One, called “Poker Face”, made a giant impact on the charts.

Battle For the Bronx
The two schools are separated by three angry miles in the northernmost borough of New York City. These two schools can’t even get their subway stations to agree — Manhattan is on the red-colored 1 line, while you take the green 4 train to get to Fordham — and there’s no way to transfer cleanly without dipping down into Harlem.

Chapter 25
One minute after Félix Sánchez won the 400 meter hurdles final at Athens 2004, posting a 47.63 time and beating his closest competitor by half a second, he wrapped his 5-foot-10 body in a six-foot-tall Dominican flag. Then he danced the merengue, without musical accompaniment, on the track. Later that night, "Quisqueyanos valientes, alcemos," rang out in the Olympic Stadium.