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The International Boxing Association (IBA) will award Italy's Angela Carini, who lost her welterweight round-of-16 bout against Algerian Imane Khelif at the Paris Olympics in 46 seconds on Thursday, $50,000 in prize money, it said on Friday. Carini pulled out in the first round after the...

Dominic Cardy was arrested at an anti-Israel rally in Toronto for disturbing the peace, he said. Cardy, who is the Independent MLA for the constituency of Fredericton West-Hanwell, explained what happened to him Thursday evening in the city’s Yonge and Dundas area. “I woke from a nap to hear...

On Friday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group to replace the USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group, which is currently operating in the Gulf of Oman, according to a statement from Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh. In addition, destroyers and...

Civil War? I don’t know but it sure seems like civil unrest is in the air.

Holy cow… I bet it’s been at least 15 years since I’ve seen an actual paper newspaper. I mean, I guess they have to exist somewhere…. But they’re kind of like 8-Track players. They’re out there somewhere, but you just don’t really see them anymore. Are paper newspapers common there still?

In May, a report by the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference found that federal elections in 2019 and 2021 were “tainted” by foreign interference. The commissioner, Marie-Josée Hogue, listed five countries — Iran, China, Russia, India and Pakistan — as the leading state actors meddling in...

“Since Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, McGill and its students have been the target of a coordinated, inauthentic and foreign narrative attack,” XPOZ wrote in a report obtained by the Post. The company examined how social media users discussing the McGill encampment interacted online and...

Amid reports of Iran bolstering anti-Israel activists in the United States, disinformation researchers fear a similar phenomenon is unfolding across Canada. Marcus Kolga founded DisinfoWatch in 2007 to monitor and expose state-sponsored attempts to hijack social media for malicious intents...

Women's boxing is mired in yet another controversial gender row as two-time world champion Lin Yu-Ting went the full three rounds to beat Sitora Turdibekova, 22, and is now only one win away from a guaranteed Olympic medal. It comes just one day after Algeria’s Imane Khelif beat Italy’s Angela...

Surprise surprise… http://apple.news/ABBWjvWi6SI-8Y5njuKha6Q

Now this is with respect to the IOC & their rules. Other federations and sporting bodies have different rules. I’m just taking a quick break at work and then I’m going back to work so I don’t have time to go into depth…. But I’ve read something recently that I think I posted here somewhere...

http://apple.news/AdkWURBRNROeVvv6g_fQbXA Sarah Ahmed was among the leaders at the University of Waterloo protest in Ontario, Canada. First established on May 13, the encampment was designed to pressure the university to cut all financial and academic connections with Israel and companies tied...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday declared Friday, Aug 2, a day of national mourning over the killing of the head of Hamas' political bureau Ismail Haniyeh. "In order to show our support for the Palestinian Cause and our solidarity with our Palestinian siblings, a day of national...

Is this one of those things where they post a picture of the dude when he’s 10 yrs old instead of this year? Are these pictures from 2015?

It is interesting, & she should get to fight, but against whom? Against Women or Men (I’m probably confusing the two boxers, but is this the one that’s super high testosterone last year or is this the one that’s XY chromosomes?) or a Trans category (if that’s the case here?) or a DSD category...

Iran will almost certainly have to conduct some kind of operation against Israel. It has been attacked on its sovereign soil and retaliation will be expected. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said Wednesday it was Tehran’s “duty” to respond and pledged “harsh punishment” for Israel. The...

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Yes. Weird question but yes. I was actually one of twins, I survived, and the other was stillborn. My Sister the exact same story. Then one of my aunts had two sets of twins, 10 months apart.

My father was like that. Being left-handed I’m back-and-forth depending on the sport, based upon what equipment I could borrow as a child when I was learning the sport…. So I’m predominantly left-handed but forced ambidextrous tendencies. My father could saw or hammer with both hands...

High School. Jeff medaled in Wrestling (Silver in 120kg) in Barcelona but it wouldn’t have been a stretch of the imagination for him to have done the same in boxing. He was just gifted at whatever he tried physically. He was three years older than me, & the better part of 100 pounds on me, with...