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Bird Island Cape gannets make a comeback with help from their friends
Cape gannets, endemic to southern Africa, were on the decline, but intensive protection at Lambert’s Bay has led to a brilliant turnaround.
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Women players beat the odds to cut a path for ice hockey in Iran
Iran may seem an unlikely setting for women's ice hockey, but a fledgling league has seen its young players confront the country's deeply conservative values and financial obstacles to blaze ...
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Inaugural Olympic Esports Games to be held in 2027 in Saudi Arabia
BERLIN, Feb 11 (Reuters) - The first Olympic Esports Games will be held in two years in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the International Olympic Committee said on Tuesday, as part of a 12-year-deal with ...
The New York Times25d
Paris Olympics Medals Are Tarnishing, Putting LVMH in the Spotlight
By Tariq Panja and Liz Alderman Tariq Panja and Liz Alderman covered the business of the Paris Olympics, and the role of companies like LVMH. Rarely in Olympic history had a single company been as ...
CBS News26d
Wildfires spared Olympic venues in L.A., but the city's rebuild could impact runup to 2028 Olympic Games
The runup to the city hosting the 2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, in addition to World Cup matches in 2026 and a Super Bowl in '27, will coincide with massive rebuilding of housing and ...
USA Today27d
‘Doomsday scenario:’ Debate over LA's fitness to host 2028 Olympics widens amid wildfires
Floodlights shone. So did the Olympic rings on a sign at the front of the 77,500-seat stadium. But confidence in the city’s ability to host the 2028 Olympics appears to have dimmed.
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Some Paris Olympic winners say their medals are falling apart — and are asking for replacements
All that glitters is not gold — and, as some athletes who competed in the Paris Olympics are finding out, even gold can lose its luster. Since the 2024 Olympic Games last August, some Olympians ...
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LA's Olympic venues were spared by wildfires, but the city's rebuild could impact the Games' runup
That seems cruelly ironic after Los Angeles organizers sold the Games as a no-build event.None of the Olympic venues has been damaged by the still-burning fires that tore through Pacific Palisades ...
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Fact check: Trump repeats lie that champion Olympic women’s boxers ‘transitioned’
“Who could forget last year’s Paris Olympics, where a male boxer stole the women’s gold medal after brutalizing his female opponent so viciously that she had to forfeit just after 46 ...
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IBA asks Trump to 'look into' 2028 Olympics omission
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended the IBA - which ran the Olympic Games' boxing programme - in 2019 because of concerns over its finances, governance, ethics, refereeing and judging.
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Quincy Wilson, an Olympic gold medalist and straight-A student, is ‘more focused in the classroom than on the track’
It has been six months since Wilson won relay gold as a 16-year-old at the Paris Olympics, becoming the youngest male track and field champion in history. Already that feels like a distant memory ...