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...For Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, two-time Olympic 100m champion, her son Zyon’s school sports day figured to be just another one at the office....
...It was a filing made by an entity named FCM BBBY Holdings, LLC which listed its address as a nondescript Wyoming office building....
...And there’s also Olympics fatigue so closely on the heels of the Summer Olympics.”...
...Tech tools — Skarper on a bike Six-time Olympic and 11-time World Champion track cyclist Sir Chris Hoy (pictured) is a backer of Skarper, which was unveiled today, and he may have won more medals if he’...
...Laboratoire XO, which makes the hypertension drug Loxen, was one of three companies owned by the fund, alongside NSO and the Estonia-based gambling business Olympic Entertainment Group....
...The Tokyo Olympics in July drew the lowest-ever audience since NBC began broadcasting the games in 1988. The Oscars, broadcast in April, also drew a record low audience, as did last year’s Emmys....
...strategic options for media properties, including selling stakes (WSJ) Self-driving truck tech firm Embark to go public via $5.2bn Spac deal (Reuters) Blackstone’s Schwarzman makes bid for gold with Olympic...
...Discovery hopes for podium finish on streamingDiscovery Plus launched in the US and several European countries today, with the latest streaming service hoping rights to the Tokyo Olympics will win it subscribers...
...(noun) the reproduction number of an infectious disease, or the number of people to whom each infected person typically spreads the virus while infectious Every four years, the Winter Olympics rolls around...
...Russian hacks, Sweden’s China fearsThe US has charged six Russian military intelligence officers with hacking targets including Emmanuel Macron’s party, the International Olympic Committee and the UK government...
...There have also been farsighted efforts to raise interest elsewhere, such as holding the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan, and successfully lobbying to enter the Olympic Games in an attempt to increase participation...
...A cancellation of this summer’s Olympics cannot be ruled out, despite reassuring noises from the International Olympic Committee....
...He was the director throughout the 1990s, when the agency investigated cases such as the Unabomber, the Centennial Olympic Park bombing, the Whitewater scandal and the Ruby Ridge and Waco sieges....
...South African-born Ivan Glasenberg, the hyper-competitive chief executive of Glencore, saw his dreams of becoming an Olympic speedwalker vanish in the apartheid politics of the 1970s....
...runs before winning Olympic gold....
...At the 2016 Rio Olympics, for instance, Team GB won fewer medals overall than China, but beat China in the ranking by number of gold medals....
...North Korea has offered to send athletes and a high-level political delegation to the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea next month amid positive signs from the first round of inter-Korea talks....
...At NBCUniversal, revenue dropped 12.7 per cent to $8bn from the third quarter of 2016, which included the Rio Olympics. Excluding the Olympics, revenue rose 6 per cent....
...“Olympic baseball at Dodger Stadium . . . it was such a great experience.”...
...In 2015, the group pipped regional broadcasters to buy near-exclusive rights to four sets of Olympic Games in Europe for €1.3bn....
...He says: “[The general counsel of the future will be] like an Olympic decathlete — maybe not a world record athlete in any of the 10 disciplines, but very good at all of them. And digital savvy.”...
...It is not only in the Olympics that records are being broken. On Thursday, all the three indices of the US stock market that have traditionally been most widely quoted set a new all-time high....
...With the Olympics just ended, we are refreshed in the terminology of physical exhaustion: athletes hit the wall, suffer glycogen deficits or exceed their lactate thresholds, before restoring themselves by...
...In addition Mr Jin denied an assertion by Steve Hollis, Villa’s Chairman, who was quoted on Thursday saying that Mr Xia had helped to build the Bird’s Nest Olympic stadium in Beijing....
...Although the demographic is mostly young men, perhaps the sport’s biggest star is Ronda Rousey, a former Olympic medallist in judo who has appeared on magazine covers and in Hollywood action films....
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