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Jan 02 2024
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5 people dead, Japan Airlines plane catches fire after collision on Tokyo airport runway
A Japan Airlines plane that collided with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft after landing burst into flames at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Tuesday. Five of the six passengers on the Coast Guard plane have been confirmed dead following the accident, Japan public broadcaster NHK reported. Japan airline reported that all 379 passengers and crew members evacuated the plane safely. The plane arrived at
"USA Today" ContributorFeb 04 2024
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Thousands of people plunge into Atlantic Ocean to raise funds for Special Olympics Delaware
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. – For 33 years, people from across Delmarva have been rushing into the water at Rehoboth beach, taking the polar plunge. This year, over 4,000 plungers helped raise $1.5 million for Special Olympics Delaware, an organization that Kaden Cope has been plunging for, for over a decade. “I just love the Special Olympics,” Cope said. “I love helping them and this is my 12th year
ABC 47 WMDTMar 13 2024
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'I feel comfortable': A solid Indiana Pacers' contributor, Andrew Nembhard keeps tabs on his Zags, dreams of Olympics
DALLAS – Andrew Nembhard is having another solid season with Indiana, his second in the NBA after the Pacers selected him in the second round of the 2022 NBA Draft. Through 52 games (31 starts), the former Gonzaga Bulldogs guard is averaging 9 points, 2 rebounds, and 4.2 assists per game. “Comfort (is the biggest difference between this season and my rookie year). As you play games, it slows
Spokesman ReviewMay 04 2024
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WooSox’ Jamie Westbrook on his Western Mass. hometown: ‘I’m proud to be from Holyoke’
WORCESTER -- In Jamie Westbrook’s hometown, “if you can survive there, you can survive anywhere.” The 28-year-old’s baseball career has taken him all over, across the country and all the way to Japan when he was a member of the silver-medal-winning U.S. National Baseball team in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Now, his journey has brought him close to home. Westbrook was born and grew up about an
MassLive.comJan 30 2024
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Team Russia to receive Olympic bronze medals despite Kamila Valieva ban
While Russia's all-star teenage figure skater Kamila Vaileva was banned for the next four years because of a positive doping test, the country will still receive bronze medals from the 2022 Beijing Olympics, a top sports court ruled. NBC News reported that now the United States will snag the gold medal in the team event. Japan follows as they are upgraded from silver to bronze. Russia will
SalonApr 27 2024
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Thomas Bach: IOC president has 'full confidence' in Wada
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach says he has "full confidence" in the World Anti-Doping Agency after 23 Chinese swimmers were cleared to compete at the Tokyo Olympics despite testing positive for a banned substance. The swimmers tested positive for heart medication trimetazidine (TMZ) at a training camp seven months before the 2020 Games. Wada said it was "not in a
BBC NewsJul 21 2021
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Tokyo Games boast equal gender participation for first time
Grace Luczak had left competitive rowing and taken a job in the private sector when a move toward gender equity at the Tokyo Games lured her back into a boat.
A women’s rowing event was added to create a more inclusive Olympics, which meant four additional seats on the U.S. team and a spot for Luczak.
“It’s really hard to make the decision to come back, to plan financially to be
Associated PressJan 27 2024
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Lia Thomas Has Been Secretly Waging a Legal Battle to Be Eligible for Olympics
I know I do. What a sad, pathetic, disgusting human being. I don’t despise him because he thinks he is “transgender.” If he wants to cosplay being a woman, it is no skin off my nose or anybody else’s. I think he is mentally ill or pretends to be, but as somebody who has mental illness in my family, I certainly don’t despise people for being afflicted. I despise him because he is harming people
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