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☆ How Noah Lyles became Olympic 100m champion: A 300-page textbook, biomechanics and a stickman
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Liam Tharme | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

Sixty metres into the men’s 100-metre Olympic final in Paris and Noah Lyles is third. AdvertisementThe headline is Lyles winning by five-thousandths of a second in the closest men’s 100m Olympic final ever — and the hardest for which to qualify. Lyles (9.78sec) ran the fastest time in an Olympic 100m final since Bolt’s Olympic record (9.63) in London back in 2012. The final frontier for him to become Olympic champion was the start… so here’s the story of how a 75-year-old and a stickman helped give Lyles the edge. At Lyles’ training base in Clermont, Florida, Mann, now 75, has a marquee set up by the side of the track.

Persons: Noah Lyles, Fred Kerley, Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson, Lyles, Usain Bolt, ”, Ralph Mann, —, Mann, Lyles ’, Tim Clayton, Corbis, you’ve, Mario, ” Lyles, “, imploring Mann, Christian Coleman, Coleman, Letsile, Thompson, Marcell Jacobs, Jacobs, Akani, he’s, Noah, Steve Magness, Simbine, — Mann, “ Ralph Mann, Andy Cheung Organizations: Getty, Olympic, Olympics, Stade de France, U.S, Paris Diamond League, Thompson's Locations: Paris, London, Clermont , Florida, Glasgow, Tokyo, Seville, Lyles, 6.41sec, 3.35sec

☆ Nicole Kidman says this trait helped turn rejection into an Oscar-winning career—it's a 'superpower'
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Nicole Kidman has five Oscar nominations to her name, including one win. In an interview with the Radio Times Podcast this week, Kidman says her height made it challenging to break into acting. I had to talk my way through the door because they were measuring you before you went in. In fact, Kidman says she took the lessons she learned from those rejections and passed them on to her children. Performance coach Steve Magness previously told CNBC Make It that even a simple grammatical shift can boost your resilience.

Persons: Nicole Kidman, Kidman, They'd, Annie, Steve Magness, Magness Organizations: Radio, CNBC

☆ The Ultramarathoner Racing Against the Course, and Himself
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Rebecca Byerly | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As a coach, de la Rosa champions the work of Steve Magness, whose book “Do Hard Things” focuses on how athletes can use positive self-talk when experiencing discomfort. De la Rosa now shows his clients that they need self-love to build resilience and mental toughness. After struggling with depression and extreme exhaustion following Barkley, and with encouragement from Belzberg, de la Rosa has accepted that he cannot participate in multiday events and more extreme 100-mile races. For now, de la Rosa, who is a sponsored runner, will continue to work on his mental health and focus on single-day events. One of their funniest memories is when de la Rosa paced Belzberg in one of her first 100-mile races and the couple hallucinated that they were seeing an aid station serving pancakes.

Persons: de, Steve Magness, De la Rosa, Barkley, de la Rosa, la Rosa, Rosa, Belzberg, I’ve, ”, “ Organizations: de la Rosa, de la, Lifeline Locations: Belzberg

In the years that followed, male athletes treated their first sub-four-minute mile as a watershed moment – a rite of passage on the way to becoming a top middle-distance runner. “Back then, getting under that four-minute mile was a big thing, especially for milers,” he added. Edmund Hilary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay had become the first people to summit the world’s highest peak the year before, and the first four-minute mile duly became running’s own Everest summit, expanding perceptions of human potential. Wes Santee, seen here competing in a three-mile cross-country race, came close to running a sub-four-minute mile during his career. “It still has some mystique,” Magness says about the status of the four-minute mile today.

☆ Inside Nike: Sources share claims of sexism, cheating, abuse at the world's wokest brand
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Joshua Hunt | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +51 min

The conservative blowback came as no surprise to Parker, who told Nike's board of directors to expect some short-term backlash. In late 2014, the BBC sent a film crew to Portland to interview several former Oregon Project employees. "He would be at the side of the track calling out runners' splits but wouldn't call Kara's out," Adam Goucher told me. When people asked why she left the Oregon Project, she said it was a "personal decision." "I don't think it has anything to do with who the CEO is," Goucher told me.

☆ ‘The 1619 Project’ on Hulu Vindicates Capitalism
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( David R. Henderson | Philip W. Magness | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Hulu’s series “The 1619 Project” blames economic inequality between blacks and whites on “racial capitalism.” But almost every example presented is the result of government policies that, in purpose or effect, discriminated against African-Americans. “The 1619 Project” makes an unintentional case for capitalism. The series gives many examples of government interventions that undercut free markets and property rights. Eminent domain, racial red lining of mortgages, and government support and enforcement of union monopolies figure prominently.

☆ Curtea tronului lui Irod Antipa, locul în care Ioan Botezătorul a fost decapitat, descoperită de arheologi
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-05 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +4 min

descriu modul în care regele Irod Antipa, fiul regelui Irod cel Mare, l-a executat pe Ioan Botezătorul. irodIrod Antipa se temea de influenţa în creştere exercitată de Ioan Botezătorul în rândul populaţiei israelite, motiv pentru care l-a executat, conform lui Flavius Iosefus. Biblia menţionează că Irod Antipa urma să se căsătorească cu o femeie pe nume Irodia, însă amândoi erau divorţaţi, iar Ioan Botezătorul a obiectat cu privire la această uniune. Regele Irod a şovăit să-i îndeplinească dorinţa, însă în cele din urmă a acceptat, iar Ioan Botezătorul a fost decapitat şi capul lui i-a fost oferit fiicei Irodiei pe o tavă. Ei şi-au exprimat îndoiala că această nişă ar reprezenta rămăşiţele tronului lui Irod Antipa.

Persons: Flavius Iosefus, Irod Antipa, Irod cel Mare, Ioan Botezătorul . Cronicarul Flavius Iosefus, execuţia, irod Irod Antipa, Ioan Botezătorul, Irod, Ioan, Salomeea, Ioan Botezătorul . Regele Irod, Alliata, Irod Antipa . irod, Arheologii, Vörös, ştiinţă, Horning Jensen, Jodi Magness, Irod Antipa . Ea, Eric Meyers Organizations: Teologie, University, Chapel, Duke University Locations: Machaerus, israelian, Iordaniei, Galileea, părţi, Iordania, North Carolina, Ierihon, Upper Herodium

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