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☆ Faith Kipyegon on motherhood and the quest for history
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Sean Coppack | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Kipyegon and a string of top athletes are continuing to prove that elite sport and motherhood are not incompatible. “[Jamaican sprinter] Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce came back after maternity leave, and [US runner] Allison Felix, and we met in Tokyo at the 2021 Olympic Games,” she recalls. At those Games, Felix won a gold and a bronze and Fraser-Pryce won silver to become the most decorated 100m sprinter in Olympic history. Courtesy NN Running TeamThe Kenyan's training regime for the Paris Games has been intense, and partially under the mentorship of men's marathon legend Eliud Kipchoge. “Going to Paris and remembering the history I’ve talked about and getting that gold medal, it’ll be a huge history for me,” she says.

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☆ How Harris is preparing to contrast her record as a prosecutor with Trump’s as a felon
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

CNN —Kamala Harris has spent much more of her life as a prosecutor than as a senator or vice president – and that is exactly how she is now going to run against Donald Trump. The vice president had expected that to be part of her role making the case for Biden. “As a former prosecutor, Vice President Harris has a lot of experience holding convicted felons accountable,” said Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a former primary opponent in the 2020 Democratic race who quickly endorsed Harris after the news of Biden’s decision broke. “The prosecutor approach is really about just deconstructing an issue,” Harris told CNN in an exclusive interview after a campaign stop in Las Vegas in April. He was a for-profit college – literally,” a narrator says, as footage of first Harris and then Trump goes by.

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☆ Biniam Girmay: The Black African cyclist making history wherever he rides
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Biniam Girmay made history at this year’s Tour de France and the Eritrean cyclist wants to use his success to inspire others to follow his path. The Intermarche-Wanty rider, who previously became the first Black African to win a stage at the Giro d’Italia, now wants other Black riders to excel in the sport. “I’m convinced that my compatriots will be happy to hear that my future is intertwined with the team who gave me the opportunity to write important pages of African cycling history,” he said after signing his long-term contract. Only two other African riders, Robbie Hunter and Daryl Impey of South Africa, both White, had previously won stages at the Tour de France, per Reuters. Winning today is unbelievable.”He has since gone on to claim victories in Stages 8 and 12, achievements he hope will blaze a trail for the next generation of young Black riders to follow.

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☆ ‘Chariots of Fire’ immortalized the 1924 Paris Olympics. Decades later, the film finds a way of ‘really speaking to people’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

So begins the 1981 Oscar-winning film “Chariots of Fire,” introducing a group of British athletes as they train for the Olympic Games. Based on the lives and gold-medal-winning performances of sprinters Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams ahead of the 1924 Paris Olympics, “Chariots of Fire” won four Oscars – including Best Picture. Athletes and officials process during the Opening Ceremony of the 1924 Paris Olympics. “The film has got a way of really, really speaking to people … something much more than we envisaged or probably had been put into it. He went on to become an influential journalist, broadcaster and athletics administrator, and he remains one of only three British men to win the Olympic 100m title.

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☆ Opinion | The Olympics Should Stand With Afghanistan’s Women Athletes
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-17 | by ( Friba Rezayee | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in 2021, one of its first actions was to bar women and girls from participating in sports publicly. Female athletes in Afghanistan today face similar threats from the Taliban, including physical abuse and raids on their homes. The most recent example is the International Olympic Committee’s decision to allow a team representing Afghanistan in the Paris Games. It should let the athletes — most of whom live in exile — compete on the Refugee Olympic Team, which would send a message of hope to refugees around the world. But none of the three women representing Afghanistan — in athletics and cycling — live and train in the country, nor could they visit without risking their lives.

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☆ Team USA has owned the Olympic swimming pool — is that about to change in Paris?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Nicole Auerbach | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

Its anthem played, over and over again, as the Americans received their gold medals atop the podium. AdvertisementU.S. swimmers have won the overall medal count and the gold medal count so often over the years that it almost has been taken for granted. Heading into the Paris Games, the Australians will be favored to win the most gold medals in the pool. Of the nine swimmers who won multiple individual gold medals, Katie Ledecky was the only American swimmer to do so. Still, USA Swimming president and CEO Tim Hinchey III has said the organization’s goal is to win the total medal count and the gold medal count.

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☆ Rai Benjamin: I love the drive it takes
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailRai Benjamin: I love the drive it takes"Training for my event, it's really, really hard." Olympic hurdler and sprinter Rai Benjamin shares what ambition means to him.

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☆ Rai Benjamin: You have to love the process
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailRai Benjamin: You have to love the process"You definitely have to love what you do, especially in this sport." Olympic hurdler and sprinter Rai Benjamin shares what ambition means to him and how his passion for track & field has helped him succeed in the sport.

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☆ Mark Cavendish claims record-breaking 35th stage win at the Tour de France
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Mark Cavendish made cycling history on Wednesday, winning a record-breaking 35th stage at the Tour de France. The 39-year-old has now surpassed legendary cyclist Eddy Merckx after winning a chaotic sprint finish at the end of the 177.4 kilometer fifth stage from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to Saint-Vulbas. Breaking Merckx’s record, who last raced in the Tour de France 49 years ago, has seemed almost impossible for any cyclist, even Cavendish. I put a big gamble on this year to make sure we are good here at the Tour de France,” an emotional Cavendish told ITV after the win. His participation in this year’s Tour de France seemed in jeopardy during the first stage, though, as television cameras caught him vomiting on his bike, reportedly struggling from heat exhaustion.

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☆ Quincy Wilson: US sprinter, 16, set to become youngest ever US male track Olympian
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Teenage sprinting sensation Quincy Wilson is set to become the youngest ever US male track Olympian after the 16-year-old announced he had reportedly been picked in the 4x400 meter relay roster for this year’s Olympic Games in Paris. “The call came directly to me from USA Track & Field,” Lee told USA Today. Wilson’s selection comes after a brilliant debut at the US Olympic Trials last week, where he twice broke a 400m world record. Born in 2008, Wilson has quickly established himself as one of the most promising rising stars in track and field. The sprinter seems to break a record whenever he runs and now looks set for a chance to prove himself on the world stage.

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☆ Sha’Carri Richardson makes statement with blistering 200m at US Olympic trials
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Sha’Carri Richardson became the second-fastest women’s 200-meter runner in the world this year as she cruised to victory in her heat at the US Olympic Trials. Long ran the fifth-fastest time in Thursday’s heats, behind Gabby Thomas – the 200m bronze medalist at the Tokyo Olympics – NCAA record holder Abby Steiner, and 2019 world championship silver medalist Brittany Brown. “Any time I touch the track, there’s an opportunity for me to work on being my best self,” Richardson told NBC after her heat. The 24-year-old ran the fastest 100m time in the world this year with her victory at the trials on Saturday, finishing in 10.71 seconds. In the men’s event, Tokyo silver medalist Rai Benjamin comfortably won his heat, while Caleb Dean set the fastest time of the day with 49.45.

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☆ Elaine Thompson-Herah, five-time Olympic gold medalist, ruled out of Paris Games with Achilles injury
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Five-time Olympic gold medalist Elaine Thompson-Herah will miss Paris 2024 with an Achilles injury, she announced on social media. “I am hurt and devastated to be missing the Olympic this year but at the end of the day it’s sports and my health comes first. In doing so, she became the first woman to complete the Olympic sprint double since Florence Griffith-Joyner at Seoul 1988. Thompson-Herah – who turns 32 on Friday – finished last in the Prefontaine Classic last month with a time of 11.30, with one of her main rivals for Olympic gold, American Sha’Carri Richardson, finishing first. Then, at the New York Grand Prix in June, she once again finished last with a time of 11.48.

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☆ Disney's 'Inside Out 2' could be the first billion-dollar movie of 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Disney and Pixar's "Inside Out 2" could be the first film since Warner Bros.' "Barbie" to top $1 billion at the global box office. "Inside Out 2" has yet to open in Japan, which contributed nearly $33 million to the $850.5 million global total of the first film in 2015. Before "Inside Out 2," no Disney animated feature from Pixar or Walt Disney Animation had generated more than $480 million at the global box office since 2019. "'Inside Out 2's' performance is the culmination of many things," said Shawn Robbins, founder and owner of Box Office Theory. Last year, that audience came out in droves for Universal's "The Super Mario Bros. Movie," which generated more than $1.36 billion at the global box office.

Persons: Phyllis Smith, Amy Poehler, Paul Dergarabedian, Shawn Robbins, Mario, Robbins, NBCUniversal Organizations: Disney, Warner Bros, Pixar, Walt Disney Animation, Force, Mario Bros, Comcast, CNBC Locations: Japan, NBCUniversal

☆ Sha’Carri Richardson wins 100-meter final to qualify for 2024 Paris Olympics
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Homero De La Fuente | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Sha’Carri Richardson has qualified for her first Olympic games after winning the 100-meter final on Saturday at the Olympic trials at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. Richardson finished in first place with a time of 10.71 – the fastest time in the 100m in the world this year – to book her spot at the 2024 Paris Olympics with the US Olympic team. Richardson’s training partner Melissa Jefferson and Twanisha Terry also qualified for the Paris Olympics after finishing in second and third place, respectively. Sha'Carri Richardson crosses the finish line of the women's 100 meter dash final at Hayward Field Saturday. Richardson added a second gold to her haul, anchoring the American 4x100 relay at the same event.

Persons: CNN — Sha’Carri Richardson, Richardson, Melissa Jefferson, Twanisha Terry, Sha'Carri Richardson, Christian Petersen, Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson, Gabby Thomas Organizations: CNN, Hayward Field, US Olympic, Paris Olympics, Hayward, Tokyo Olympic Games Locations: Eugene , Oregon, Texas, Budapest, Hungary, American

☆ How the vodka soda became 'gay water'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

The combination of soda water and vodka has long been a fixture of boozy LGBTQ+ life, particularly among gay men. One of those came from Houston-based lawyer Jeff Watters, who called the vodka soda the "gay water" of the nighttime in a post on X. Retail is also central to the business for Gay Water, a startup offering canned cocktail variations of vodka soda. The former's vodka soda citrus is 100 calories per can, while Gay Water contains 80. The Gay Bar Shop, a specialty retailer, sells an 11-ounce, $49 candle that smells like a vodka soda with a lime garnish.

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☆ Erriyon Knighton: US sprinter cleared for Paris Olympics following failed drug test
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Matias Grez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —United States sprinter Erriyon Knighton has been cleared to compete at the Olympic Games after an independent arbitrator determined his failed drug test was “more likely than not” caused by contaminated meat. Knighton, the 2023 World Championship 200m silver medalist, tested positive for a metabolite of trenbolone during an out-of-competition drug test on March 26 and was provisionally suspended on April 12, the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said in a statement. CNN has reached out to Knighton via the US Olympic Team for comment on the decision. “We did what the rules require us to do in all positive cases,” USADA CEO Travis Tygart said in the statement. Knighton became the youngest American since Jim Ryun in 1964 to make a US Olympic team when he qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, according to AP, eventually finishing fourth in the 200m.

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☆ Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone: Ambition is goal setting
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailSydney McLaughlin-Levrone: Ambition is goal setting"It's just a matter of me versus the clock." Olympic hurdler and sprinter Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone shares what ambition means to her.

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☆ Willie Mays, supreme baseball talent among the best to ever play, dies at 93
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( David K. Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

San Francisco Giants great Willie Mays waves his hat as he rides around the track of Oracle Park, Friday, May 7, 2021, in San Francisco,. Focus On Sport | Getty ImagesA 1981 song and ode to America's pastime by Terry Cashman was appropriately titled "Talkin' Baseball: Willie, Mickey & The Duke." "I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays," all-time pitching great Sandy Koufax once said. Willie Mays Hays here: Play like Mays and I run like (Olympic gold medal sprinter Bob) Hayes. Outfielder Willie Mays #24 of the San Francisco Giants rounds second base during a circa early 1970's Major League Baseball game.

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Eyewitnesses also said that they saw Israeli forces in disguise – dressed as Hamas fighters or civilians. The Israeli military denied using civilian vehicles, but declined to say whether the officers conducting the rescue were disguised as militants or dressed as Palestinian civilians. The Israeli military had previously used civilian clothing as a tactic in its operations. But soon after the mission got underway, Israeli soldiers and militants began to exchange fire, according to eyewitness accounts and statements from the Israeli military. A senior Biden administration official tells CNN that Israeli forces did not use an aid truck in the operation.

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☆ Louie Hinchliffe becomes first European to win men’s 100m title at NCAA Championships
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-08 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —British sprinter Louie Hinchliffe became the first European man to win the 100-meter title at the NCAA Championships on Friday thanks to a surging finish. “It was just a fight to the end,” Hinchliffe told reporters after the race. Hinchliffe did clock a time of 9.84 last month, but it was not deemed legal due to the wind conditions. C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Photos/Getty Images“I’ve got to forget about this now and focus on the job at hand,” said Hinchliffe. “Louie has had an incredible year,” Lewis told Citius Mag after Hinchliffe won Houston’s first 100-meter championship since 2018.

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☆ Learning to Surf, 200 Miles From the Nearest Ocean
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-26 | by ( Nora Walsh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I paddled hard to stay in front of the two-foot wave, repeating the sequence of movements I’d just practiced on land. As I eased onto my feet, the wave crested and propelled me forward: I was surfing! I’d traveled to the two-acre wave pool at Waco Surf, a water sports complex in Waco, Texas, chasing an unfulfilled childhood dream. A freshwater wave pool, it turns out, was a perfect place for this newbie to get her surf legs. “In the ocean, you might have to wait another hour, or your next session, to get another shot.”

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☆ A Gen Zer who spends $180,000 designing luxury vans shares the biggest mistake people make converting them
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Mikhaila Friel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

High-end travelers are turning to supervans with heated floors, Italian tiles, and home theatres, according to Lucas Ravizza, who builds and designs luxury vans for a living. AdvertisementLucas Ravizza is photographed inside one of the luxury vans he designed. Ravizza is among the many luxury van influencers sharing their designs online. Matt MaloneRavizza said he usually spends $180,000 buying and converting luxury vans for clients who use them as vacation homes. Ravizza said anyone can upgrade a van to add luxury elements, but there's one mistake they should avoid.

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☆ A 24-year-old spent $140,000 buying and converting a Mercedes van. Take a look inside the luxury home on wheels.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Monica Humphries | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

So, she set out to do just that for her most recent van conversion. AdvertisementFor the next nine months, she designed and built a space that's just as much functional as it is artistic. By the end of the conversion, Minor said she spent $140,000 on the build. For example, Minor used liquid fiberglass — a material that's typically used on the exterior of automobiles — inside her van. "In which case, it just turns into a regular business that's complicated, that's restricted."

Persons: —, Abbe Minor, Minor, Autoevolution, Noovo, I've, I'm, she'd, Diego's, Minor's van, van isn't, Abbe Minor's van, she's Organizations: Service, Business, Minor, Overland Locations: San Diego, Pennsylvania, Washington

☆ With Oscar Pistorius released on parole after serving nine years for murdering Reeva Steenkamp, her family still wants answers
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( Sam Joseph | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN's documentary examines the details leading to Reeva Steenkamp’s murder Rikki Hibbert Photography/Courtesy of StimuliiPistorius shot Steenkamp four times through the bathroom door of his house. Why did he do it?” Steenkamp’s mother, June, asked in the documentary. Very clever, and she was always laughing.”“She would have done amazing things,” said Tania Koen, CEO of the Reeva Steenkamp Foundation. The world was a better place with Reeva in it.”Pistorius, now 37 years old, was released on parole on January 5 this year. Steenkamp’s mother has been vocal in her criticism of his release and expressed her concern for the safety of other women.

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☆ 20 Unforgettable Looks at the Met Gala
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( The Styles Desk | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

By Monday morning, the answer to one of the biggest questions looming over the Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York had emerged. Would members of the union representing employees of Vogue and other Condé Nast publications proceed with threatened disruptions to the gala orchestrated by Vogue editor Anna Wintour? No: A tentative contract agreement between Condé Nast and union leaders was reached hours before the event. — were only answered as attendees started stepping out of Sprinter vans to make their way into the gala, known formally as the Costume Institute Benefit. Among them: Floral prints and embellishments, elaborate headpieces and skin-revealing outfits that skewed more Garden of Eden.

Persons: Condé, Anna Wintour, Condé Nast, Emily Ratajkowski, Pamela Anderson, Dan Levy Organizations: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vogue, Condé Nast, Institute Locations: New York, Eden

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