Keely Hodgkinson will have fun her Olympic 800m gold medal with a vacation earlier than concentrating on a time that can take her near the 41-year-old world document. That’s the message from Hodgkinson’s coaches, Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows, the husband and spouse staff who meticulously ready the 22-year-old for glory in Paris.

They settle for Jarmila Kratochvilova’s time of 1min 53.28sec is out of attain for now however consider Hodgkinson has the expertise and want to interrupt it in the future. “She’s going to Marbella on a household vacation,” stated Painter. “She says she’s going there to change off. Then we’ll do the Diamond League remaining and have a crack there with a pacemaker.

“She is aware of she will run 1.53. The world document is low 1.53, so it would take a couple of years earlier than we get to that.”

Painter, whose 800m athletes do a whole lot of 200m and 400m repetitions in coaching, stated: “We run numbers. We’re very information pushed. For those who do that in coaching, it correlates to this.

“Keely can ship it. Some individuals can’t and it interprets into nerves and stress. The London Diamond League [on 20 July] was the identical. She was saying I can positively run 1.54.”

The extremely regarded and well-liked coaches run the M11 Observe Membership in Manchester, named after the postcode of Sportcity, with a rising staff of athletes together with Staff GB’s 1500m runner Georgia Bell. It doesn’t harm that Meadows was an excellent 800m athlete, who would have absolutely gained greater than three world championship medals – one silver and two bronzes – had she not competed in an period of Russian doping.

Painter stated they met Hodgkinson for lunch earlier than the race to speak ways. “The British Olympic Affiliation has acquired a lodge quarter-hour from the village so she’s been getting a carry throughout there to eat as a result of it’s a very good bit higher than the village. She’s not eaten a meal within the village.”

Meadows added: “She was actually assured. I spoke to her about a couple of situations that would occur. I stated individuals would possibly begin quick and sluggish the tempo. She was simply having none of it. ‘No, that’s not going to occur.’ It was being unfavorable from me however I used to be simply making her give it some thought.”

In the course of the race, the coaches had very completely different feelings. “I’m at all times fairly calm, calmer than Jen,” stated Painter. “I simply have perception.”

Meadows stated: “I used to be not calm. I wasn’t calm as a result of it was sluggish. I didn’t need to face the wrath of Keely if she solely, I say solely, acquired the silver once more. I assumed she was making it tougher than it wanted to be.”

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Painter talked about that Hodgkinson is usually late for coaching. “We’ve a saying that quarter-hour is OK. Generally it’s 20 to 25 minutes and he or she simply strolls in smiling. I’m not too bothered about it as a result of Keely is a free spirit.

“If we include her, put her in a field and inform her you’ve acquired to evolve to this and wish you to be like that, she’ll not be the identical particular person. That sort of free-spirited nature makes her who she is.”

Painter additionally praised Hodgkinson’s dad and mom, Dean and Rachel, who watched the race with 100 household and pals. “They’ve all acquired the identical T-shirt,” he stated. “Dean had them made and designed them.

“Her dad and mom are sensible onerous employees. Her dad has at all times advised her she will do something. She has nice values and he or she deserves every part she will get as a result of it’s been a tricky 12 months with accidents.”

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Waterloo Area, Ontario – Waterloo Regional Police have charged a Waterloo male after an abduction in Kitchener.

On August 5, 2024, at roughly 5:30 p.m., police responded to a residence within the space of Strasburg Highway and Rush Meadow Avenue for a report of a break-and-enter and a lacking 14-year-old feminine.

An AMBER Alert was issued, and the 14-year-old was subsequently situated in Simcoe County by the Ontario Provincial Police.

WRPS’ Main Crime Unit has charged a 36-year-old Waterloo male with the next offences:

• Kidnapping whereas utilizing Firearm
• Break, Enter a dwelling home with intent to commit an indictable offence

The sufferer and the accused are identified to 1 one other.

The investigation stays ongoing, and extra costs are anticipated.

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Consequently, WRPS issued an AMBER Alert in efforts to find the lacking 14-year-old.

At 8 p.m., the Ontario Provincial Police safely situated the feminine out-of-region.

A male has been positioned beneath arrest and costs are anticipated.

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Inside Bangladesh it’s being dubbed a Gen Z revolution – a protest motion that pitted principally younger scholar demonstrators towards a 76-year-old chief who had dominated her nation for many years and turned more and more authoritarian in recent times.

There was jubilation on the streets of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Monday after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the nation by helicopter following weeks of lethal anti-government unrest.

Hasina’s abrupt exit ends 15 years in energy that has been marked by a stifling of civil freedoms and the heavy-handed use of safety forces to crush dissent, critics and rights teams say.

An interim authorities headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus will now lead the nation on the request of scholar protest leaders, the Bangladesh president’s press secretary confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.

In the meantime, the nation’s foremost opposition social gathering has provided its full assist to scholar protesters.

What started as peaceable protests by college students towards civil service job quotas morphed right into a nationwide push to power Hasina out after demonstrators had been met with a authorities crackdown that killed about 300 folks, based on native media and companies.

Hasina blamed the opposition for the violence and imposed web blocks and an indefinite curfew throughout the nation.

Her response infected the protesters additional and, ultimately, the world’s longest-serving feminine head of presidency needed to rapidly flee the nation together with her sister to India earlier than crowds stormed her official residence, smashing partitions and looting its contents.

College students started protesting on July 1 on the prestigious Dhaka College demanding an finish to the federal government’s quota system, which reserves 30% of civil service posts for kinfolk of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s warfare of independence from Pakistan in 1971.

Most of the nation’s up to date political elite are associated to that era – together with Hasina, a daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the extensively regarded founder of contemporary Bangladesh who was assassinated in 1975.

The reserved roles had been linked to job safety and better pay, and protesters stated the quota system is discriminatory and favors supporters of Hasina’s ruling Awami League social gathering.

Driving the anger was excessive unemployment ranges within the nation, particularly amongst younger folks. Bangladesh has seen robust financial progress underneath Hasina, but it surely slowed within the post-pandemic period and is beset with excessive inflation and depleted overseas forex reserves. In a nation of 170 million folks, greater than 30 million usually are not in work or schooling.

The protests turned violent on July 15 and the federal government’s more and more lethal response fueled their anger additional, even after the Supreme Courtroom rolled again a lot of the controversial quotas on authorities jobs and web blocks had been lifted.

On Sunday, at the least 91 folks had been killed and tons of injured in clashes between police and protesters, the very best for a single day from any protests within the nation’s latest historical past.

After Hasina’s resignation on Monday, celebration quickly gave approach to extra violence as protesters torched a number of buildings, together with the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum – the ancestral residence of Hasina’s father Mujibur Rahman – and Awami League places of work, eyewitnesses advised CNN.

“Issues turned ugly actually rapidly,” stated Raiyan Aftab, 23, a scholar at BRAC College, who stated police shot at protesters outdoors the campus. “They shot everyone. There’s blood in entrance of my college proper now. There’s like 30 our bodies… I couldn’t sleep all night time.”

Throughout the capital, anti-government protesters had been attacked by police and navy personnel, witnesses stated. At Dhaka Medical Faculty, police opened hearth on protesters, based on a CNN fixer on the scene.

College students and protesters at Dhaka College Campus and the Shaheed Minar, a nationwide monument within the capital, had been overwhelmed by police as they assembled at these places.

“I went to Shaheed Minar with my pals to rejoice. It was epic. There’s like hundreds of individuals there, everyone went, no matter class, heritage, faith, we’re all collectively and all the scholars met up with flags and every thing. It was a historic second,” stated Aftab. “Nevertheless it was quick lived.”

In the meantime, pictures appeared on-line of younger folks guarding Hindu temples as misinformation swirled on-line and a mob attacked a temple, based on the director of the Meherpur ISKCON temple.

The demonstrations turned the last word problem to Hasina since she secured a fourth consecutive time period in January elections, which had been boycotted by the principle opposition social gathering to protest what they stated was a widespread crackdown on their ranks.

On Tuesday, Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin dissolved parliament and introduced the discharge of opposition chief and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia – a longtime Hasina rival – who had been jailed in 2018 on graft expenses, which she denies. Different scholar protesters and people arrested on “false circumstances,” had been additionally launched, the president stated.

Hasina’s political profession spanned many years since getting back from exile within the early Eighties following the assassination of her father and most of her household. In 1990 she led a preferred democratic rebellion towards navy rule and has survived a number of assassination makes an attempt within the years since.

She first turned prime minister in 1996 and served for one time period earlier than returning to energy in 2008, ruling Bangladesh together with her Awami League social gathering till Monday.

Human rights organizations have warned that Hasina and her authorities had been headed towards a one-party system, and critics expressed issues over elevated experiences of political violence, voter intimidation, and harassment of the media and opposition figures.

Throughout her time in energy, rights teams say the federal government has used its cyber safety regulation to crack down on freedom of expression on-line, arresting journalists, artists and activists, with reported circumstances of arbitrary detention and torture.

However Hasina had managed to climate many earlier protests towards her rule that erupted significantly throughout elections, so her resignation after 5 weeks of unrest was seen as sudden and surprising.

Younger folks, who witnessed their friends shot and killed, fueled by dismal job prospects and who had been uninterested in corruption and repression, couldn’t be stopped by curfews, web blocks or safety forces.

“This would possibly very nicely be the primary profitable Gen Z led revolution,” stated Sabrina Karim, affiliate professor of presidency at Cornell College, who specializes within the research of political violence.

The navy might have additionally performed a job in Hasina’s resignation. Karim stated in an announcement that it “seems that the navy weren’t at all times a unified power backing the Hasina regime.”

“Whereas there are various pictures and movies circulating of troopers utilizing lethal power and taking pictures at unarmed protesters, some members of the navy referred to as for an impartial UN-led investigation into these atrocities,” she stated. “As well as, some members of the navy introduced yesterday that they might not use lethal power on protesters who convened on the capital.”

On Tuesday, Bangladesh awaited the formation of the interim authorities and protest organizers with the College students Towards Discrimination stated they may meet with Bangladesh’s military chief.

Scholar chief Muhammad Nahid Islam stated they hadn’t met all of their objectives, and after Hasina’s resignation, the group wished to “abolish fascist techniques endlessly.” The leaders say they gained’t settle for a military-led or supported authorities.

Yunus, the student-backed head of the interim authorities, is an 84-year-old social entrepreneur and banker who gained the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his pioneering microfinance work that helped alleviate poverty in Bangladesh.

Yunus will quickly return to Bangladesh with the intention to take up the submit “after a minor medical process in Paris,” a supply advised CNN. The College students Towards Discrimination group additionally confirmed his return, telling CNN in a textual content message: “We’re very delighted to say that Dr. Yunus has agreed to simply accept this problem to avoid wasting Bangladesh as per our scholar’s request.”

Talking to CNN Monday, Yunus stated he wished to see the military hand management of the nation to a civilian authorities.

“Persons are celebrating on the road and tens of millions and tens of millions of individuals throughout Bangladesh [are] celebrating as if that is our liberation day,” he stated.

Whereas Hasina’s resignation was celebrated, some Bangladeshis expressed trepidation over the trail forward because the nation makes an attempt to fill a management vacuum.

“Hasina could also be gone, however there’s nonetheless an extended highway forward for Bangladesh,” scholar Faiza Chowdhury, 25, advised CNN. “Till our spiritual minorities and ethnic minorities are protected and justice involves them too, the nation shouldn’t be free.”

Protester Aftab was cautious of the navy holding on to energy.

“We’ve got to recollect the final 15 years, the military didn’t do something. They protected this regime to allow them to’t simply come into energy and turn out to be good guys. We all know who they’re and what they’re going to do,” he stated.

Others had been extra optimistic. One other Bangladeshi finding out in New York advised CNN that “Gen Z made every thing attainable. They’re the way forward for Bangladesh they usually can create a greater future.”

Jubilation unfold rapidly amongst members of Winnipeg’s Bangladeshi neighborhood on Monday as information broke that the South Asian nation’s prime minister had resigned and fled the nation following weeks of protests towards a quota system for presidency jobs that devolved into violence.

“Persons are very emotional. They are saying it’s the finest day for our lifetime,” mentioned Abdul Baten, appearing president of the Canada-Bangladesh Affiliation of Manitoba.

Baten mentioned the information sparked an impromptu gathering within the early hours of Monday morning in a Winnipeg park, the place some cried tears of pleasure after many sleepless nights over a lethal crackdown on the peaceable scholar protests.

“And all these items occurred simply due to our scholar neighborhood,” he mentioned. “We used to say that this era … they do the Fb and all different issues. However this era, they study from one another, they share the data.”

Protests from pissed off college students demanding an finish to a system they mentioned favoured these with connections to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League celebration started peacefully final month, however later morphed into an unprecedented problem to the celebration and Hasina’s 15-year rule.

Makes an attempt to quell the demonstrations with pressure, leaving almost 300 individuals lifeless since mid-July, additionally fuelled outrage towards the federal government.

The protests continued even after the Supreme Courtroom final month dominated that the quota system — which put aside as much as 30 per cent of presidency jobs for members of the family of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s struggle of independence towards Pakistan — should be drastically reduce. 

In elements of Bangladesh, 1000’s of demonstrators stormed Hasina’s official residence and different buildings related together with her celebration and household. However in different areas, protests have been peaceable, with 1000’s gathered Monday night outdoors the presidential palace, the place the navy chief, opposition politicians and the nation’s figurehead president met.

Crowds additionally ransacked Hasina’s household’s ancestral home-turned-museum the place her father was assassinated in 1975, in addition to the home of the nation’s chief justice and Hasina’s earlier private house in Dhaka, the capital. They torched two main workplaces of the ruling celebration. 

Worry of focusing on

Fears additionally rose amongst Hindus that they is likely to be focused within the unrest since they’re usually regarded as supporters of Hasina’s celebration.

It is a worry shared by Sutirtha Saha, whose Hindu household nonetheless lives in Bangladesh. 

“Individuals mainly in Bangladesh affiliate Hindu individuals with the … former celebration,” he mentioned. “It has all the time been like this, it is all the time synonymous with Hindus being pro-Awami League ruling celebration and pro-India. 

“That is what individuals suppose,” mentioned Saha. “Generally they contemplate us as outsiders, they suppose we’re extra Indians than Bangladeshi, which isn’t true. Our language is Bengali, we have been born there and we’ve been introduced up there and I do not know why individuals would assume in any other case.” 

Saha mentioned his dad and mom reside in part of Bangladesh the place it is identified that some Hindu households reside. He mentioned he watched earlier within the day on safety digital camera footage as his household’s house within the nation was attacked. 

He additionally mentioned he is been monitoring that digital camera simply in case one thing occurred whereas his dad and mom have been asleep. 

“I felt helpless, powerless, simply involved about how my household can be,” he mentioned. “I’ve been in touch with them … for the previous couple of hours I have been calling them each jiffy, the entire day I have been watching my telephone wanting on the CCTV digital camera.” 

A whole bunch attend gathering Monday afternoon

Baten mentioned he appreciates the assist he is seen in Canada for the protesters and was joined by a whole bunch of neighborhood members as they gathered to have a good time the information Monday afternoon at Kirkbridge Park in south Winnipeg. 

“We’re very comfortable — very, very comfortable,” he mentioned. “And we hope for the perfect for Bangladesh.”

And Ashraful Alam, who attended the gathering, mentioned he desires these celebrating Hasina’s resignation again house to take action calmly and peacefully. 

“The very first thing is that it’s achieved, however now we’ve to be united again once more and rebuild the nation,” he mentioned. 

Alam mentioned whereas the gathering was a celebration, it was additionally the possibility to unfold a message of unity. 

“It is a nation with many races and many individuals of various religion,” he mentioned. “We wish to reside in concord with all of them.” 

Greater than 100 college students from College of Manitoba Bangladeshi College students’ Affiliation (UMBSA) had additionally gathered in mid-July to point out their assist for the protesters in Bangladesh and to voice criticism’s of the nation’s management.

Hasina, 76, was the nation’s longest-serving feminine head of presidency. She was elected for a fourth consecutive time period in a January vote that was boycotted by her principal opponents. Hundreds of opposition members have been jailed within the lead-up to the polls, and america and Britain denounced the outcome as not credible, although the federal government defended it.

Hasina had cultivated ties with highly effective nations, together with each India and China. However below her, relations with the U.S. and different Western nations have come below pressure, as they’ve expressed issues over human rights violations and press freedoms within the predominantly Muslim nation of 170 million individuals.

Her political opponents have beforehand accused her of rising more and more autocratic and have blamed the unrest on that authoritarian streak.

The prime minister’s departure threatens to create much more instability within the nation on India’s border already coping with a collection of crises, from excessive unemployment and corruption to local weather change. Amid safety issues, the capital’s principal airport suspended operations.

Israelis are steeling themselves for an assault from Iran and Hezbollah. Iran has vowed retaliation in opposition to Israel after the assassination of a Hamas chief in Tehran final week.

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Iran has vowed retaliation in opposition to Israel after the assassination of a Hamas chief in Tehran final week. The senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps stated as we speak that Israel can count on a, quote, “crushing response.” Israel is bracing for that response. NPR’s three correspondents there are unfold out across the space, together with Kat Lonsdorf, who joins us now from Jerusalem. Hello, Kat.

KAT LONSDORF, BYLINE: Hey, Ailsa.

CHANG: OK. So what’s it like in Jerusalem proper now? Like, what are you listening to from folks?

LONSDORF: Properly, I imply, it is just about enterprise as regular right here. You realize, the lodge we’re staying at, which is in central Jerusalem – it is fairly full. Persons are within the eating places. And as we speak the pool was packed, though I’ll say that the upkeep workers right here had been hanging up indicators in all of the hallways pointing to the closest shelter, so it wasn’t precisely an atypical day. We took a stroll across the neighborhood, and folks had been out having espresso, getting dinner, together with Hani Zakin, who was out buying along with her younger son.

HANI ZAKIN: (Talking Hebrew).

LONSDORF: She instructed me, you realize, “what must occur will occur. And it is a very, very unhealthy scenario, however we now have to go on dwelling.” She says she was right here in Jerusalem again in April, when Iran despatched a whole lot of missiles and drones at Israel in retaliation for a strike on its consulate in Damascus. Israel shot most of these down, a lot of them over right here in Jerusalem. And there wasn’t actually a lot injury in any respect. She says that gave her a way of safety, particularly going into this unsure time. However she additionally acknowledged that, right here in Jerusalem, it is usually extra calm, not like within the north, for instance, the place there are quite a lot of sirens and rockets every single day.

CHANG: Yeah. Let’s speak about that. I imply, we now have groups unfold out all through Israel.

LONSDORF: Yeah.

CHANG: What’s the sense exterior of Jerusalem?

LONSDORF: Properly, like Hani Zakin identified, within the north, it is totally different. That space has been bombarded consistently with rockets from Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, and Israel has been combating again. You realize, our colleague Hadeel Al-Shalchi is in Haifa within the north, and the streets there are fairly empty, she says. She talked with the municipality there, the place they’re getting ready for the worst, stockpiling shelters with meals, water, mills. She stated that individuals there have been somewhat fearful but additionally usually calm. They stated that they are fairly used to this. You realize, there’s the identical sense that no matter might be might be, and there is not a lot we are able to do about it.

CHANG: Properly, what will we learn about how the Israeli authorities is getting ready at this level?

LONSDORF: Yeah. So as we speak Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened Israel’s safety chiefs to debate the scenario. He is been having practically every day safety conferences for the previous week. The Israeli army has stated time and time once more for months now that they’re absolutely ready for any scenario, and whereas the intention is to not escalate the battle, they’re ready for that as effectively. And extra broadly, the U.S. is shifting fighter jets and warships to this area as backup. Keep in mind; the U.S. helped Israel shoot down a lot of these missiles and drones that Iran launched again in April, and lots of of these had been in Jordanian airspace, which is a robust U.S. ally. So as we speak President Biden spoke on the cellphone to Jordanian King Abdullah, they usually each urged the significance of de-escalation and calm.

CHANG: Properly, all of the rhetoric across the Iranian retaliation makes it appear imminent. Is there any concept of what to anticipate?

LONSDORF: Properly, we now have some clues. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken instructed his counterparts on the G-7 yesterday that the assault might begin as early as as we speak, which is among the causes we’re all bracing over right here. And Israeli intelligence officers have instructed NPR they count on the assault will focus primarily on army targets in Israel. And whereas they are saying it could be much like the assault in April, which lasted just a few hours, they’re anticipating this one to be longer.

CHANG: That’s NPR’s Kat Lonsdorf in Jerusalem. Thanks a lot, Kat.

LONSDORF: Thanks.

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August 5, 2024 – Ottawa, Ontario – World Affairs Canada

The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Overseas Affairs, immediately issued the next assertion:

“Canada strongly condemns the human rights violations, deaths, torture, arbitrary arrests and deadly pressure used towards the folks of Bangladesh in latest weeks. We reiterate our deep condolences to all these impacted.

“Throughout this transition, we urge all events to respect and uphold democratic establishments and processes and the rule of legislation. It’s critical that each one these arrested in latest weeks be accorded due course of within the justice system and {that a} full and neutral investigation be pursued to make sure accountability for crimes dedicated.

“Assuring the upkeep of a full Web entry is crucial to permit folks to entry info and join with their family members in Canada and worldwide.

“As a rustic dedicated to democracy, inclusive governance and the rule of legislation, Canada requires a fast and peaceable return to a democratic and inclusive civilian-led authorities in Bangladesh. We urge the folks of Bangladesh to unite across the rules of freedom and democracy upon which their nation was based.

“Respect for basic human rights, together with freedom of expression and the suitable to peaceable meeting, are crucial for democratic governance and to construct peaceable and affluent societies.

“Canada stands with the folks of Bangladesh throughout these difficult instances.”

David Lynch revealed in a brand new interview that he was identified with emphysema and may not “go away the home” on account of fears of getting COVID.

“I’ve gotten emphysema from smoking for thus lengthy and so I’m homebound whether or not I prefer it or not. … And now, due to COVID, it might be very dangerous for me to get sick, even with a chilly,” he advised Sight and Sound within the journal’s September cowl story (through the Unbiased). Lynch stated he “can solely stroll a brief distance earlier than” he runs “out of oxygen.”

The legendary filmmaker behind such works as “Eraserhead,” “Mulholland Drive” and the “Twin Peaks” universe added that it’s unlikely he’ll direct once more — but when he does, he wouldn’t be on set. “I’d attempt to do it remotely, if it involves it,” Lynch stated, admitting, “I wouldn’t like that a lot.”

Emphysema is a persistent lung situation that causes shortness of breath. The illness is mostly attributable to cigarette smoking (the 78-year-old Lynch is a lifelong smoker) or publicity to pollution.

In a submit on X a number of hours after this story’s publication, Lynch clarified that he “loved smoking very a lot” however has now stop for greater than two years.

“Just lately I had many exams and the excellent news is that I’m in glorious form apart from emphysema,” Lynch continued. “I’m stuffed with happiness, and I’ll by no means retire. I need you all to know that I actually respect your concern.”

Elsewhere within the Sight and Sound interview, Lynch, whose final characteristic movie was 2006’s “Inland Empire,” stated he’s nonetheless “hopeful” that his 2010 screenplay “Antelope Don’t Run No Extra” will make it to the massive display. “We don’t know what the long run will convey,” he stated.

He additionally mentioned “Snootworld,” the animated movie he started engaged on 20 years in the past with Caroline Thompson (“The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas,” “Edward Scissorhands”).

“Only in the near past, I assumed somebody is likely to be thinking about getting behind this, so I introduced it to Netflix in the previous few months, however they rejected it,” Lynch stated. “Old style fairy tales are thought of groaners: apparently, folks don’t wish to see them. It’s a special world now, and it’s simpler to say no than to say sure.”

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Sure, I’ve emphysema from my a few years of smoking. I’ve to say that I loved smoking very a lot, and I do love tobacco – the scent of it, lighting cigarettes on fireplace, smoking them – however there’s a worth to pay for this enjoyment, and the value for me is…

— David Lynch (@DAVID_LYNCH) August 5, 2024

PARIS Pour ses troisièmes Jeux, un exploit jamais réalisé dans la natation artistique canadienne, Jacqueline Simoneau joue un rôle à l’opposé de son baptême olympique à Rio en 2016.

Réunie à ses débuts sur la scène olympique à son idole et grande amie Karine Thomas qui partageait avec elle sa vaste expérience, Simoneau joue à son tour le rôle de mentor auprès de sa jeune coéquipière Audrey Lamothe âgée de seulement 18 ans. En plus de la compétition par équipe qui débute, lundi, les deux font la paire dans l’épreuve en duo.

«Karine était une de mes idoles et j’avais son autographe, raconte Simoneau. C’est maintenant à mon tour de partager mon expérience avec Audrey.»

Lamothe apprécie grandement la présence d’une nageuse d’expérience à ses côtés. «Jacqueline est mon idole et mon petit cœur était très heureux quand elle est income à la compétition, souligne-t-elle. Depuis son retour, je la côtoie tous les jours et je suis choyée de profiter de ses conseils. Avec les semaines qui ont passé, je la considère comme coéquipière et non plus comme mon idole. Son retour a été une très grande supply de motivation pour moi et une excellente nouvelle pour l’équipe canadienne.»

Les deux font la paire depuis le championnat mondial à Doha en février dernier alors que Simoneau effectuait son grand retour après une pause de deux ans pour se concentrer sur ses études en médecine podiatrique à l’UQTR.

«La vie est trop courte pour avoir des regrets, résume-t-elle pour expliquer son retour à la compétition. J’ai la likelihood de jumeler mes passions. La flamme brûlait encore et les docteurs m’encourageaient de prendre une année sabbatique dans mes études pour vivre mon rêve. J’avais quelques craintes au début, mais mon retour s’est bien passé, avec l’apport d’une équipe exceptionnelle à l’INS.»

Bonne chimie

La chimie entre les partenaires a opéré rapidement. Elles ont remporté deux médailles de bronze à Paris à l’event de l’épreuve check et elles ont gagné deux écus d’argent à la Coupe du monde disputée à la maison, à Markham, en mai.

De son côté, Lamothe rêve des Jeux olympiques depuis sa tendre enfance. «Je rêve aux Jeux olympiques depuis l’âge de sept ans, souligne-t-elle. Je me souviens d’avoir regardé les Jeux de 2016 et de 2021. Jacqueline et ses partenaires Karine Thomas en 2016 et Claudia Holzner en 2021 ont été de grandes inspirations pour mes solos. Je n’avais toutefois pas pensé que je prendrais half aux Jeux de Paris dès l’âge de 18 ans en duo et en équipe.»

Sa development a été très rapide. «J’ai participé au championnat mondial junior en août 2022 et j’ai fait le saut dans la catégorie senior l’année suivante où j’ai connu beaucoup de succès.»

Le podium dans la mire

Le Canada possède probablement ses meilleures probabilities de renouer avec le podium pour la première depuis 2012 à Londres. Peu importe le résultat, l’athlète de 33 ans a l’esprit en paix. Simoneau a pris le 7^e et le 5^e rang respectivement en duo à ses deux premières participations olympiques.

«En qualifiant le Canada pour Paris et en remportant un premier titre mondial, je peux quitter mon sport la tête en paix parce que j’ai accompli tout ce que je voulais. Tout ce qui arrivera à Paris sera un bonus.»

Unbiased presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may have been hit with a high quality for dumping a lifeless bear cub in New York’s Central Park, however the state company that investigated the weird incident stated the statute of limitations for the decade-old offense has lengthy since expired.

The New York State Division of Environmental Conservation “led the 2014 investigation and forensic evaluation into the Central Park bear cub,” the company stated in a press release Monday.

The invention of the lifeless cub in the midst of Manhattan made headlines in October 2014, however investigators on the time weren’t in a position to decide the way it bought there.

Kennedy acknowledged in a video he posted on social media Sunday that he was the wrongdoer, in an effort to get forward of a narrative within the New Yorker that talked about he was accountable. Kennedy advised Roseanne Barr within the video that he’d picked up the lifeless cub outdoors of town after somebody had hit it with their automotive. He stated he had plans to pores and skin it and eat it, however time bought away from him and he wound up leaving it close to a motorbike path within the park as a joke. He was 60 on the time.

The DEC assertion stated its probe had certainly “concluded the bear died from blunt-force trauma per a high-speed collision.”

“The investigation was closed later that 12 months as a consequence of an absence of adequate proof to find out if violations occurred,” the assertion stated.

The company stated it is in opposition to the legislation to get rid of a lifeless bear the best way Kennedy stated he did.

“The State’s Environmental Conservation Legislation consists of offenses corresponding to unlawful possession of a bear and not using a tag or allow and unlawful disposal of a bear, each of that are violation-level offenses usually topic to fines of as much as $250 for the primary offense,” the company stated. “The statute of limitations for these offenses is one 12 months; costs can’t be introduced for incidents that occurred multiple 12 months in the past.”

Ron Kuby, a veteran New York felony protection lawyer, stated Kennedy may have confronted further penalties from town for unlawful dumping.

“It is barely unlawful,” Kuby stated in a telephone interview, including that whereas Kennedy may have confronted a heftier civil high quality from metropolis authorities, as much as $1,000, he wouldn’t have confronted felony costs.

As for the state violation, it is “akin to a site visitors violation,” Kuby stated.

New York Metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander on Monday night time demanded Kennedy pay way more than that.

“Bear with me for a second — I did the mathematics, and on behalf of all New Yorkers, I demand that @RobertKennedyJr promptly ship the Metropolis of New York what he owes for his ursine exploits,” Lander wrote in a publish to X. Lander calculated that with accrued curiosity, Kennedy owed town almost $24,000.

Kennedy’s marketing campaign didn’t reply to a request for remark Monday.

Town Division of Sanitation used the odd political information as a educating second on social media.

“Questioning tips on how to get rid of a lifeless animal in New York Metropolis?” a publish on the division’s X account learn. It included a determine standing in entrance of three trash baggage in descending sizes, marked “Paddington,” “Fozzie” and “Gummy,” referring to the fictional youngsters’s e book character, the Muppet and the sweet, respectively.

The publish additionally linked to data on the division’s web site about tips on how to correctly get rid of a lifeless animal in New York Metropolis.

The assertion from DEC, in the meantime, included a hyperlink on tips on how to get rid of animals outdoors town. “To legally possess a deer, moose, or bear unintentionally killed by a collision, people are required to report and procure a allow from both DEC or native legislation enforcement,” the company stated.