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IOC warns countries that block athletes for political reasons risk harming Olympic host bids

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:22:44 GMT

Countries that exclude athletes from competing for political reasons risk harming their plans to host an Olympic Games, the IOC said Sunday.The “growing politicization of sport” was flagged as a problem by International Olympic Committee member Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, the former president of Croatia, in an update to global sports leaders about countries who want to host the games in future.Though she did not identify problematic countries, Poland and Indonesia have expressed interest in hosting the 2036 Olympics. It is the next Summer Games available to be awarded.Poland refused to let Russian athletes compete in the European Games this year and Indonesia was stripped by soccer governing body FIFA of hosting the men’s Under-20 World Cup in May because the Muslim-majority nation did not want to stage Israel games.“We have witnessed more and more government restrictions being placed on athletes’ access to international sporting competitions,” Grabar-Kitarović said in Mumbai at the I...

Así fue el conmovedor monólogo de Pete Davidson en ‘SNL’ sobre Israel y Gaza

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:22:44 GMT

(CNN) — El presentador de “Saturday Night Live”, Pete Davidson, abordó “las horribles imágenes e historias de Israel y Gaza” en comentarios profundamente personales durante los primeros minutos del nuevo episodio del programa de sketches de larga data.Los emotivos comentarios de Davidson se centraron particularmente en los niños que han sufrido como resultado del conflicto.Davidson habló sobre su conexión personal para afrontar la tragedia y el terrorismo después de que su padre, Scott Davidson, un bombero de la ciudad de Nueva York, muriera en los ataques del 11 de septiembre.“Saturday Night Live” se despide de Kate McKinnon y Pete Davidson (2022)Lea su declaración completa a continuación.“Esta semana vimos imágenes e historias horribles de Israel y Gaza. Y sé lo que estás pensando, ¿quién mejor para comentarlo que Pete Davidson? (risa)“Bueno, en muchos sentidos soy una buena persona para hablar de ello porque cuando tenía siete años, mi padre murió en...

Pegula beats Yuan to claim Korea Open title

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:22:44 GMT

SEOUL (AP) — Jessica Pegula beat Yuan Yue 6-2, 6-3 in the final of the Korea Open on Sunday for the fourth title of her career. The top-seeded Pegula dropped only one set through the tournament and becomes the first American since Venus Williams in 2007 to win the title in Seoul. “My mom is Korean and she was adopted from here so it’s really special to be able to win here,” Pegula said. “In the last few years, as my ranking has gone up, I’ve definitely felt so much more support from the fans, a lot more than I expected coming back here from five years ago. So it’s really special.”Playing in her first career final, 128th-ranked Yuan showed no signs of nerves and earned a break point in Pegula’s opening service game, which the American saved with a forehand winner. The world No. 4-ranked player then won eight consecutive games to take the first set and build a 3-0 lead in the second as a quick victory looked likely. Yuan then rallied to get back to 3-4 but Pegula’s power from th...

Israel responde con fuego a tiroteos desde el Líbano que dejaron un muerto y tres heridos

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:22:44 GMT

ISRAEL – Al menos una persona ha muerto y tres resultaron heridos en una ataque con misiles antitanques contra la población israelí de Shtula, en la frontera con Líbano, que está siendo respondido por el Ejército israelí, informaron fuentes oficiales.“Tras los informes iniciales sobre un tiroteo hacia la comunidad de Shtula, las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel se encuentran actualmente atacando el origen del fuego en el Líbano”, indicó un portavoz del Ejército israelí, al precisar que algunos de los disparos se dirigieron hacia un puesto militar. “Misiles estaban sobre nuestra cabeza”: adolescente de EEUU que estaba estudiando en Israel Israel y Hamas en guerra: más de 3,500 personas han muerto en ambos lados Los servicios de emergencia Maguen David Adom informaron de que sus paramédicos fueron desplegados a la zona, en la Alta Galilea, y que “declararon la muerte de un hombre de 40 años y evacúan al Centro Mé...

Four most important Patriots ahead of Week 6 game vs. Raiders

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:22:44 GMT

Week 6 will serve as a turning point for the Patriots season.If they beat the Raiders, then there could still be some hope of being somewhat competitive in 2023. If they lose, then they’re likely starting the season 1-7 with games coming up against the Bills and Dolphins.Some fans are looking for a full-on tank. We’ll see if they get their wish with a loss on Sunday.Related ArticlesNew England Patriots | NFL notes: Why the Patriots let reliable receiver Jakobi Meyers walk and what went wrong New England Patriots | Patriots rule out seven players ahead of Week 6 game vs. Raiders New England Patriots | Patriots might as well see what they have in Malik Cunningham at this point New England Patriots | Bill Belichick scouts speedy Patriots WR who could make team debut Sunday New England Patriots | J.C. Jackson gaining confidence back in return with Patriots QB Mac JonesThis feels like the last cha...

An Arab paramedic who treated Israelis injured by Hamas militants is remembered as a hero

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:22:44 GMT

When Hamas unleashed its attack on thousands of Jews attending a music festival in southern Israel earlier this month, an Israeli Arab paramedic insisted on staying at the scene to try to save lives.In the end, he gave his own.Awad Darawshe was 23, single, handsome — but he wasn’t at the Tribe of Nova festival to dance. He worked for Yossi Ambulances and was among a team of paramedics assigned to work the festival in a tent on the site’s periphery. He was killed when Hamas militants slipped undetected into Israel from the Gaza Strip and butchered their way through the festival crowd and into nearby villages, settlements and kibbutzim.Shortly after dawn on Oct. 7, rockets pierced the skies. Grenades went off. Gunfire ricocheted everywhere. Injured, bleeding revelers raced to the paramedics’ station. But the chaos quickly escalated. As the scope of the Hamas attack became clear, the station’s leader ordered the paramedics to evacuate.Darawshe refused to leave. He was shot to death whi...

Pot shops lucky to be in business amid competition, advertising rules and THC limits

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:22:44 GMT

TORONTO — Sean Kady spent most of his 20s toting around a teal tackle box that once belonged to his roommate’s grandfather. Occasionally, people would spot the box and ask to borrow a wrench, but it didn’t contain tools or bait.Instead, the box was home to a cannabis supply Kady covertly sold to a steady stream of customers. Kady has since gone legit, having opened Toronto pot shop Cosmic Charlies with his brother in 2021. But the money was so good in his tackle box days, he sometimes wonders if he had the right idea even though he was on the wrong side of the law.“I have made the joke that we’ll just relinquish our licence and I’ll start selling the weed that I could get again, and I’ll make a lot more money,” Kady said.“I would never do it, but I’ve threatened to do it for fun.”Kady can be forgiven for wistfully recalling his past. Pot shop owners have had a rough five years.Since Canada legalized recreational cannabis on...

Review: Parody, melody and blasphemy come together in ‘Dicks: The Musical’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:22:44 GMT

If you like your “Parent Trap” riffs with heaping helpings of horny humor, insane musical numbers and a soupcon of monsters in diapers, then “Dicks: The Musical” may be your jam, especially if blasphemy is your bliss.To be clear, this film version of an off-Broadway musical comedy (the name of which this family newspaper will publish as “F—ing Identical Twins”) could turn into an actual parent trap if families confused it for kid-friendly fare. Your first clue this isn’t the Disney version is the opening title card, which proclaims the thing was “bravely written by two homosexuals,” helpfully adding that it’s the first thing ever written by homosexuals. Then Bowen Yang shows up as disco-fied God (“He/Him,” He asserts), and we’re off.Co-playwrights and stars Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson reprise their stage roles as alpha-male douchebags Craig and Trevor, respectively, businessmen in an “American Psych...

Minnesota Mystery Night celebrates successful first year

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:22:44 GMT

“We’re booked into the middle of 2025, bringing the best of our crime and mystery writers,” Rob Junghans says, describing Minnesota Mystery Night. “This event has found its pulse.”Marcie Rendon (Courtesy of Minnesota Mystery Night)A group of volunteers has a right to be proud of co-founding this monthly reading series for crime/mystery fans, hosted by Junghans, which celebrates its first anniversary Monday, Oct. 16, at Axel’s Restaurant in Mendota. Guest presenters are Marcie Rendon, author of the award-winning Cash Blackbear series, in conversation with Patrick Scully, dancer, choreographer, and art entrepreneur whose performing career spans more than 45 years across venues in the U.S., South America and Europe, and founder of Patrick’s Cabaret, Minneapolis art incubator for local performers.Junghans, who writes thrillers as Rob Jung, says Minnesota Mystery Night grew out of the Bookstube at the Bierstube series in Hastings that ended a 15-...

Skywatch: The great autumn galactic happening

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:22:44 GMT

Now that we’re well into early autumn and the bright light of the harvest moon is long gone, it’s a fabulous time to make a date to get out in the dark skies of the countryside, that is, if you’re not already living out there. I guarantee this will be a treat you’ll remember for a long time, whether by yourself or with family or friends. Bring blankets, binoculars, star charts, snacks, and beverages, and be prepared to sleep in the following day. Even better, turn this into an overnight campout if you don’t mind braving the October chill! It will be a great show. The clear autumn skies are more transparent because the air has much less humidity.For the heck of it, when you settle under the autumn evening heavens, attempt to estimate how many stars you can see with your naked eye. Traditional astronomy textbooks say you can see about 3,000 stars in the dark countryside with the naked eye, but I’m sure there’s much more. Don’t even try t...