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With Canadian athletes having already earned three medals on the sector at Stade de France, Sarah Mitton is trying so as to add a fourth.

The 28-year-old shot putter threw for 19.77m in her first try in Thursday’s qualification spherical, good for first general. She’s going to compete within the shot put last on Friday.

She’s now trying to be a part of Ethan Katzberg (gold in males’s hammer throw), Camryn Rogers (gold in girls’s hammer throw) and Alysha Newman (bronze in girls’s pole vault) on the Paris 2024 podium.

READ: Shot putter Sarah Mitton on her Olympic targets and galvanizing the subsequent technology

Like Katzberg and Rogers, Mitton got here into Paris 2024 as a reigning world champion in her occasion. She claimed that crown at this yr’s World Athletics Indoor Championships. That adopted her silver medal on the 2023 World Athletics Championships. Then this previous Could, she threw a nationwide file of 20.68m, which is the world-leading mark for the yr.

In her first Olympic expertise at Tokyo 2020, Mitton threw 16.62m in qualifying. She referred to as these Video games a “enormous studying curve” however is feeling “fairly darn good” about reaching the finals in Paris.

“I already really feel like I’ve had the Olympic expertise for myself,” she mentioned. “For Canada, I’m going to go on the market and attempt to win a gold medal, or any medal.”

Mitton solely threw as soon as on Thursday, having comfortably cleared the 19.15m normal for computerized qualification in her first try.

“I’m simply feeling actually relaxed and actually assured, and that’s the area I needed to be in. So, proud of the one and executed, and I’m prepared to come back again,” she mentioned.

“You don’t have to throw far immediately, you simply have to throw far sufficient. I feel that was a pleasant simple throw and I feel I can actually construct on that.”

Trying to earn their very own podium finishes are Canada’s 4x100m relay groups, each of whom had been in motion on Day 13.

The ladies’s group of Audrey Leduc, Jacqueline Madogo, Sade McCreath and Marie-Éloise Leclair set a brand new Canadian file of 42.50 seconds of their first spherical warmth. That point despatched them via to Friday’s last.

“To lastly make [the national record] occur right here—as a lot because it’s magical, it’s what we labored for, and that is the group we’re,” mentioned Leclair. The earlier file of 42.60 had stood since 2015.

On the boys’s facet, the quartet of Andre De Grasse, Aaron Brown, Brendon Rodney and Jerome Blake completed third of their first spherical warmth in 38.39 seconds. That put them straight via to their last on Friday.

Canada gained bronze within the occasion at Rio 2016, and silver at Tokyo 2020. They’ve confronted challenges in Paris, together with a mistake by Rodney within the hand-off on Thursday, and a lingering hamstring subject that hampered De Grasse within the males’s 200m occasion.

“We’re all slightly bit fatigued however tomorrow we must be OK to go,” mentioned De Grasse. “It was powerful. I’ve simply obtained to push via [the hamstring issue]. Yet one more race, give all of it I’ve obtained, and go from there.”

Regardless of issues not going precisely to plan this season and at these Video games, all the group is able to, as De Grasse mentioned, give all of it they’ve obtained on this final race.

“I’m grateful and really grateful that I’m in a position to make my second Olympic group, come out right here and placed on for Canada and run with these guys once more,” mentioned Blake. “We now have a possibility to go win a medal tomorrow, in order that’s what we’re centered on proper now.”

In a while within the night in Paris, just-turned-21-year-old Savannah Sutherland took half in a blazing-fast girls’s 400m hurdles last. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of the USA set a brand new world file of fifty.37 seconds to win gold. Sutherland, with a time of 53.88, completed seventh.

Earlier on Day 13, Michelle Harrison competed within the repechage spherical of the ladies’s 100m hurdles, however her time of 13.30 wasn’t sufficient to affix Mariam Abdul-Rashid in Friday’s semifinal.

Ionis Prescribed drugs’ investigational Angelman syndrome therapy ION582 demonstrated a good security profile and lessened general signs in sufferers collaborating within the HALOS medical trial.

That’s in line with six-month follow-up knowledge from half one among Section 1/2 examine (NCT05127226), which examined three doses of ION582 — low, medium and excessive — injected straight into the spinal canal for 3 months.

General and clinically significant enhancements had been noticed in 97% of sufferers given medium and excessive doses of ION582, as assessed by the Signs of Angelman Syndrome-Clinician World Impression of Change (SAS-CGI-C) scale, which measures clinicians’ impressions of Angelman signs, in line with a firm press launch.  Enhancements in communication, cognition and motor abilities had been additionally reported, and the investigational remedy was deemed protected and properly tolerated throughout all examined doses.

Ionis mentioned it expects to launch a pivotal Section 3 examine to proceed to check ION582 in Angelman sufferers within the first half of 2025. The corporate will talk about trial design with regulators later this yr.

Outcomes place Angelman syndrome therapy as ‘cornerstone’

“Ionis appears ahead to collaborating with investigators, regulators and members of the Angelman syndrome group to provoke Section 3 growth for ION582 within the first half of 2025,” mentioned Brett Monia, PhD, Ionis CEO. The “encouraging outcomes” from the trial “place ION582 to be the cornerstone of Ionis’ subsequent wave of transformational, wholly owned medicines for neurological circumstances, which presently consists of 5 clinical-stage applications,” Monia mentioned.

Angelman syndrome is brought on by mutations within the maternal copy of the UBE3A gene, which prevents a working model of the UBE3A protein from being made. Whereas two copies of every gene are inherited — one from every organic mum or dad — in sure areas of the mind, solely the UBE3A copy inherited from the mom is energetic.

ION582 was designed to activate the paternal copy of the UBE3A gene by blocking a molecule, Ubiquitin Protein Ligase E3A-Antisense Transcript, that silences it.

The open-label HALOS medical trial enrolled 51 sufferers, ages 2 to 50. With the completion of the primary half, eligible sufferers will now transition to the second a part of the examine, which can consider the results of the medium and excessive doses of ION582 for a further 12 months. Within the third half, sufferers might be adopted for extra 4 years.

The trial’s fundamental objective is to evaluate the security and tolerability of a number of ascending doses of ION582.

Exploratory efficacy parameters embody adjustments in sufferers’ communication, cognition, motor operate, sleep, seizures, and each day dwelling abilities. These results had been measured utilizing the SAS-CGI-C and the Bayley-4, additionally a clinician-administered evaluation of medical functioning.

Enhancements seen throughout affected person inhabitants

Mum or dad-reported evaluations had been carried out utilizing the Vineland Adaptive Conduct Scales-3 (Vineland-3) and the Observer-Reported Communication Capability (ORCA), which assesses the standard of nonverbal communication by mother and father or caregivers.

Sufferers exhibited enhancements in communication, cognition, and motor operate in comparison with the pure growth delay seen in pure historical past research of Angelman syndrome. Fantastic motor abilities (handwriting and greedy, for instance) improved in 72% of the sufferers, cognition in 67%, and expressive communication in 69% when assessed utilizing the Bayley-4.

In line with ORCA, 60% of sufferers confirmed enhancements in nonverbal communication. Receptive communication abilities within the Vineland-3 improved in 89% of individuals and expressive communication in 84%. Socialization abilities had been improved in 63% to 87% of the sufferers, and each day dwelling abilities in 74% to 82%. Fantastic motor abilities improved in 63%, and gross motor abilities (corresponding to strolling and climbing stairs) in 53%.

When measured utilizing the SAS-CGI-C scale, cognition improved in 85% of sufferers. Sleep improved in 61%, and conduct in 56%. These enhancements had been seen in a “broad affected person inhabitants,” Ionis mentioned.

“Angelman syndrome is a critical neurodevelopmental dysfunction with life-long impairments and dependence on caregivers, for which we presently have solely supportive care,” mentioned Lynne Chicken, MD, professor of medical pediatrics on the College of California San Diego and an investigator on the HALOS examine. “We’re very inspired by these promising knowledge with ION582, exhibiting constant enhancements over what we observe within the pure course of the illness.”

Detailed outcomes of the HALOS medical trial had been shared on the 2024 Angelman Syndrome Basis Household Convention, which happened July 23-26 in Sandusky, Ohio.

ION582 was granted orphan drug and uncommon pediatric illness standing by the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration (FDA), two designations geared toward supporting and assist velocity its growth.

Japan’s Rei Higuchi in motion in opposition to Aman Sehrawat throughout the semifinal of the 57kg freestyle wrestling occasion at Paris Olympics, on August 8, 2024.
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Younger Indian grappler Aman Sehrawat misplaced to Japanese top-seed Rei Higuchi within the 57kg free-style semifinal bout because the nation’s hopes of profitable a gold from wrestling suffered a giant blow on the Olympics in Paris on Thursday (August 8, 2024).

The 21-year-old Aman will now play for the bronze medal.

Aman, who had raised hopes of securing a spot within the closing following two large victories in opposition to celebrated opponents within the earlier rounds, was no match for the 28-year-old Higuchi — the 2016 Rio Olympics silver medallist — because the Japanese toyed with the Indian to stamp his technical superiority with a 10-0 win in simply over two minutes.

Higuchi’s superior method was evident within the first few seconds when he attacked Aman’s legs to take a 4-0 lead.

The Japanese, a former world champion in 2022 at Belgrade within the 61kg class, saved up the strain on the Indian, concentrating on Aman’s legs and effecting common throw downs with ease to garner six extra factors to finish the competition.

Aman had earlier rekindled the nation’s hopes, demolishing former world champion Zelimkhan Abakarov of Albania by technical superiority to seal a spot within the semifinal.

Aman was in imperious kind as he toyed with Abakarov within the second spherical. Aman locked the opponent’s legs at first of the second spherical and flipped him over a number of occasions to earn eight straight factors to safe a 12-0 victory.

The bout began with Aman earing a passivity level after his Russian-turned-Albanian opponent didn’t provoke any attacking transfer.

Moments later, the Indian effected a left-leg maintain to earn two extra factors to showcase his dominance by going 3-0 up on the finish of spherical 1.

Aman was on tune in spherical 2 and Abakarov, world champion in 2022, bore the brunt. The Indian’s very good agility in opposition to the 31-year-old Albanian was on show as he attacked the left leg to convey him down.

He then effected a ‘fitley’ (leg lace), turning the Albanian round a number of occasions to finish the competition with greater than two minutes to go.

Abakarov contested the final two factors awarded to Aman however the referee dominated in favour of the Indian and awarded him some extent.

Aman’s pre-quarterfinal spherical was additionally a cakewalk as he ensured a simple passage into the last-eight with a dominating efficiency in opposition to North Macedonian rival Vladimir Egorov.

Aman, an Asian Championship gold medallist and the one male wrestler from the nation to qualify for the Olympics, was amazingly agile as he saved his defence intact whereas usually overpowering his 29-year-old former European champion with leg holds to win the bout on technical superiority (10-0).

Egorov gave the impression to be in a little bit of hassle after the primary spherical, requiring medical consideration on his knee following Aman’s all-out assault.

However the Macedonian couldn’t stage a comeback with Aman effecting a takedown to earn two extra factors and go 10-0 up with greater than two minutes remaining on the clock.

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Police in Austria have questioned three youngsters suspected of plotting a suicide assault at a Taylor Swift present, sparking renewed considerations over the indoctrination of younger individuals on-line.

Overseas intelligence businesses helped authorities uncover the alleged scheme, in response to the nation’s Inside Minister Gerhard Karner. A supply acquainted instructed CNN that the US issued a warning to authorities in Vienna.

Organizers canceled three live shows, which had been scheduled to happen within the European capital from Thursday to Saturday. CNN has reached out to Swift’s representatives for remark.

Investigators unearthed a stockpile of chemical compounds, explosive units, detonators and 21,000 euros in counterfeit money on the dwelling of the principle suspect, a 19-year-old ISIS sympathizer who had been radicalized on-line, in response to authorities.

The younger man – who was arrested Wednesday morning within the jap city of Ternitz – deliberate to kill himself and “numerous individuals,” in response to the top of the home intelligence company, Omar Haijawi-Pirchner.

“He stated he supposed to hold out an assault utilizing explosives and knives,” Haijawi-Pirchner instructed reporters in Vienna on Thursday. “His goal was to kill himself and numerous individuals in the course of the live performance, both at this time or tomorrow.”

Two different suspects had been detained, aged 17 and 15. The 17-year-old labored for a services firm that may have offered companies on the live performance venue. He was close to the stadium when he was arrested and had not too long ago damaged up along with his girlfriend, in response to Haijwai-Pirchner.

Little has been revealed concerning the 15-year-old. Prosecutors will determine later if he was a witness or immediately concerned within the alleged plot.

The three are all Austrian-born with both Turkish, North Macedonian or Croatian backgrounds.

The trio had been involved with different people who knew concerning the plan, stated the nation’s director normal for public safety, Franz Ruf. Nobody else is being sought in direct reference to the plot, Ruf added.

The cancellations of the Swift live performance triggered an outpouring of heartbreak, grief and aid amongst Swifties hoping to attend the record-breaking Eras Tour in Vienna. Hailed as a cultural phenomenon, the dimensions, affect and intricacy of Swift’s musical voyage have made headlines for enhancing the economies of the cities she visits.

The show-stopping tour started in Glendale, Arizona in March 2023, and has been prolonged a number of instances. Vienna was scheduled to be the penultimate venue of the European leg, with Swift set to play 5 nights at London’s Wembley Stadium over the subsequent two weeks, earlier than transferring on to Canada in November and December.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan stated town would “keep on” with the scheduled occasions, telling Sky Information: “I’m positive Vienna has acquired its personal causes to cancel the Taylor Swift live shows, we’re going to hold on, working intently with police (and) making certain that the Taylor Swift live shows can happen in London safely.”

A rush of pleasure descended on the Austrian capital within the days main as much as the three-day fest, in response to locals, with Swifties filling the cobbled streets and spontaneously breaking out into track.

A number of followers who had been planning to attend exhibits in Vienna instructed CNN they participated in a sequence of occasions Thursday that had been staged in a community-led effort to rekindle the spirit and power of the tour.

Footage has emerged of Swifties serenading every one other at native squares in Vienna and buying and selling personalised friendship bracelets – a live performance custom impressed by the lyrics on Swift’s track “You’re on Your Personal, Child” from her tenth studio album “Midnights.”

Julia Schnizlein, a pastor on the Lutheran Metropolis Church, instructed CNN that she purchased tickets as a Christmas present for her 14-year-old daughter, Leni, who was left heartbroken on Wednesday.

“We had been actually trying ahead to the live performance and have met a number of followers over the previous few days,” the 45-year-old stated. “The entire metropolis was filled with glad, peaceable individuals exchanging bracelets and spontaneously singing collectively.”

As an alternative, the pastor opened the doorways of her church to host a Swift-themed singalong for followers. Social media movies present individuals bopping their heads to melodies of a number of the Grammy-winning artist’s best hits – together with “Clean Area” and “Model” – as music blares from the audio system of the corridor, illuminated by the glow of yellow candles.

“Folks had been crying, holding palms, singing alongside softly,” stated Kristi Hovington, 46, who wandered into the chapel after listening to tunes from the Eras Tour setlist. “It was such an attractive second, a pocket of magnificence amidst the frustration and anger.”

The college librarian journeyed from Barcelona, Spain, to attend the tour together with her 14-year-old daughter, Esme, who had dreamed of seeing Swift dwell in live performance. “She cried for an hour, at the least; this was her dream, to see Taylor.”

Elsewhere within the capital, dozens of followers congregated on the Stephansplatz, a central sq., to belt out an array of Swift songs. One participant, Elie Fares, stated he was “devastated” for followers who had misplaced their likelihood to see the US pop star on tour.

“I simply walked proper over and basked within the camaraderie of all of it, the best way it exuded a number of joie de vivre, an enormous center finger to all of those that wished the squash that pleasure and instil concern,” added the 34-year-old doctor, who has attended exhibits within the US and Europe.

“Swifties have proven time and time once more that they’re a formidable neighborhood amongst music followers,” he instructed CNN on Thursday. “Within the grand scheme of what’s occurring all over the world at this time, we’re all conscious of the place a live performance cancellation falls, however that doesn’t imply we are able to’t be supportive of one another.”

With time operating out, Fleuriau Chateau got here two ft from glory as he danced into the field previous a defender spun and fired large.

Subsequent up, Whitecaps FC 2 subsequent head right down to California to lace up in opposition to The City FC on Sunday, August 18 at 5 p.m. PT. The next weekend, the ’Caps come dwelling for a conflict with LAFC 2 at Swangard Stadium on Sunday, August 25 at 4 p.m. PT. To cheer WFC2 on of their race for the playoffs, go to: whitecapsfc.com/wfc2.

Scoring Abstract
39’ – COL – Rogelio Garcia (Alec Diaz)
45’+1 – COL – Marlon Vargas
69’ – VAN – Nicolas Fleuriau Chateau (Mihail Gherasimencov, Jay Herdman)

Ejection
59’ – VAN – Dembo Saidykhan

Statistics
Pictures: VAN 13 – COL 11
Pictures on the right track: VAN 3 – COL 6
Saves: VAN 4 – COL 2
Fouls: VAN 8 – COL 9
Offsides: VAN 3 – COL 2
Corners: VAN 9 – COL 3

Whitecaps FC 2
50.Max Anchor; 56.Immanuel Mathe, 53.Buster Sjöberg (95.Joshué Ndakala 85’), 51.Dembo Saidykhan; 41.Eliot Goldthorp (44.Myles Morgan 16’, 43.Antoine Coupland 85’), 59.Jeevan Badwal, 48.Malcolm Simmons (95.Joshué Ndakala 85’), 92.Jay Herdman ©, 54.Mihail Gherasimencov; 97.Liam Mackenzie (46.Darko Ilić 70’), 52.Nicolas Fleuriau Chateau

Substitutes not used
90.Alexander Milošević, 63.Rayan Elloumi

Colorado Rapids 2
51.Zackory Campagnolo; 53.Steve Flores, 34. Michael Edwards, 44.Joshua Belluz, 72.Miguel Alvarado; 39.Marlon Vargas © (81.Landon Strohmeyer 86’), 42.Ricardo Pena (75.Vincent Rinaldi, 40.Robinson Aguirre; 80.Noah Strellnauer (55.Patrick Dormoh 75’), 47.Alec Diaz (90.Colton Swan 74’), 57.Rogelio Garcia (78.Maxwell Simpson 75’)

Substitutes not used
61.Leonardo Medina, 67.Andre Erickson

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump recommitted to debating Vice President Kamala Harris after lately backing out, holding a prolonged information convention Thursday during which he taunted his new rival, boasted of his crowd on Jan. 6, 2021, and lashed out at questions concerning the enthusiasm her marketing campaign has been producing.

Watch Trump’s remarks in our participant above.

Because the Republican presidential nominee addressed reporters at his Palm Seashore, Florida, property, ABC introduced that Trump and Harris, the Democratic nominee, have agreed to a Sept. 10 debate, organising a extensively anticipated faceoff in an already unparalleled election. Trump mentioned he had proposed three debates with three tv networks in September.

Trump once more insisted there had been a “peaceable switch” of energy in 2021 and renewed assaults on Republican rivals like Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, whom Trump has harshly criticized since Kemp refused to go together with his false theories of election fraud.

In taking questions from reporters for greater than an hour, Trump tried to attract a distinction with Harris, who has not held a information convention since she grew to become the seemingly Democratic nominee following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race.

One other key second within the election is about

Trump’s choice to go on ABC, days after posting on his social media account that he wouldn’t seem on the community, units up a extremely anticipated second in an election the place Biden’s catastrophic efficiency within the final debate set in movement his withdrawal.

“I believe it’s essential to have debates,” Trump mentioned Thursday. “I sit up for the debates as a result of I believe we’ve to set the file straight.”

A couple of hours after the information convention, Harris wrote on X that she heard Trump “has lastly dedicated” to debate her on ABC on Sept. 10, the date her marketing campaign has lengthy caught to.

“I sit up for it,” she wrote.

READ MORE: Trump and Harris have agreed to a Sept. 10 presidential debate on ABC, community says

Thursday’s occasion was Trump’s first public look since Harris chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her operating mate. Trump known as Walz a “radical left man.”

“Between her and him, there’s by no means been something like this,” Trump mentioned. “There’s definitely by no means been anyone so liberal like these two.”

He repeatedly urged Harris was not clever sufficient to debate him. Harris, for her half, has tried to goad Trump into debating and instructed an viewers in Atlanta lately that if he had something to say about her, he ought to “say it to my face.”

Trump grew visibly perturbed when pressed on Harris’ crowds and newfound Democratic enthusiasm, dismissing a query about his lighter marketing campaign schedule as silly.

Trump says he has not “recalibrated” his marketing campaign regardless of dealing with a brand new opponent, a dynamic some Republican strategists have quietly complained about.

When requested what belongings Harris possessed, Trump mentioned: “She’s a lady. She represents sure teams of individuals.”

Trump has repeatedly — and falsely — accused Harris, the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, of beforehand downplaying that she is Black.

Trump acknowledges weak point with Black girls

Trump acknowledged some altering patterns together with his new opponent, acknowledging he is probably not as fashionable with Black girls, certainly one of Democrats’ key voting blocs. He expressed plenty of confidence in his assist from Black males.

“It may very well be I’ll be affected considerably with Black females however we’re actually doing nicely,” he mentioned. “And I believe finally they’ll like me higher as a result of I’m going to offer them safety, security and jobs. I’m going to offer them a superb economic system.”

WATCH: After combative interview at NABJ conference, Trump faces new criticism

Trump marketing campaign officers instructed reporters forward of the information convention they imagine Harris is at present having fun with a honeymoon interval they likened to an “out-of-body expertise.”

They argued the basics of the race haven’t modified and the temper of the nation stays bitter, with Individuals pissed off by the state of the economic system, the administration and the nation’s instructions.

They argued that whereas Harris has energized the Democratic base — which Biden had not performed — she won’t be able to win over Republicans or convert independents or the persuadable voters they’re targeted on concentrating on.

Trump’s marketing campaign plans to spend the subsequent three months hammering Harris as “failed, weak and dangerously liberal,” blaming her for each one of many the Biden administration’s unpopular insurance policies and mocking her mannerisms and talking type.

Trump takes questions on abortion

Trump urged abortion is not going to be a significant problem within the marketing campaign and the end result in November.

He insisted that the matter “has turn into a lot much less of a problem” because the Supreme Court docket ended the federal constitutional proper to abortion companies and returned management of the matter to state governments. However the problem is extensively seen as a common election legal responsibility, and Trump named states similar to Ohio and Kansas which have since voted to guard abortion rights.

READ MORE: 24 issues Donald Trump is promising to do

Trump additionally mentioned he anticipated Florida “will go in somewhat extra liberal means than folks thought” when it votes to repeal an abortion ban later this yr, however he didn’t reply to questions asking how he would vote.

Trump argued that Democrats, Republicans and “everyone” are happy with the outcomes of the 2022 ruling that overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade choice.

Trump’s actions inside the GOP, nonetheless, counsel he is aware of that Democrats have already got capitalized on Republican opposition to abortion rights and will accomplish that once more this fall. Trump single-handedly ensured that the Republican Social gathering platform adopted on the 2024 conference in Milwaukee doesn’t name for a nationwide ban on abortion, and he has mentioned repeatedly that hardliners within the celebration may price the GOP in November.

The courtroom’s choice, issued months forward of the 2022 midterm elections, is extensively cited as a cause that Democrats fared significantly better than anticipated in Home and Senate contests. And Democrats have hammered Trump in paid ads blaming him and the justices he appointed for ending Roe.

Trump once more makes false claims on Jan. 6

Donald Trump falsely claimed through the press convention that “no person was killed on Jan. 6,” the date in 2021 when pro-Trump rioters breached the U.S. Capitol amid Congress’ effort to certify Biden’s 2020 election victory after Trump refused to concede.

Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Drive veteran from San Diego was shot and killed by a police officer as she climbed by a damaged a part of a Capitol door through the violent riot that breached the constructing.

To make certain, Trump has usually cited Babbitt’s dying whereas lamenting the remedy of those that first attended a rally exterior the White Home that day, then marched to the Capitol, a lot of whom fought with police and entered the the constructing.

WATCH: Key takeaways from Homeland Safety watchdog’s report on Secret Service’s Jan. 6 actions

“I believe these folks had been handled very badly. If you examine it to different issues that passed off on this nation the place lots of people had been killed,” Trump mentioned Thursday, including “no person was killed on Jan. 6.”

He additionally falsely claimed extra folks attended his speech at a “Cease the Steal” rally earlier than the riot than the well-known March on Washington in 1963, the long-lasting occasion at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.

Trump was requested about Biden’s feedback in a CBS interview that he was “not assured” there could be a peaceable switch of energy if Trump had been to lose.

“He ought to have introduced this up on the debate if he had an issue. In fact there’ll be a peaceable switch, and there was final time.”

Whereas Biden was inaugurated on schedule, Washington was on lockdown that day, with the streets patrolled by navy personnel and home police two weeks after Trump’s supporters had attacked the Capitol.

Related Press author Will Weissert in Washington contributed to this report.

SAINT-DENIS, France — Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone insists and insists that her largest competitors in any race is from the ten hurdles that circle the monitor.

Lately, these aren’t any downside. The actual factor she’s working towards is the clock.

McLaughlin-Levrone as soon as once more broke her personal world document, powering over the 400-meter hurdles in 50.37 seconds Thursday evening to defend her Olympic title.

The 25-year-old American has now lowered the world document six instances. She was within the lead across the nook and breezed down the homestretch to beat teammate Anna Cockrell by 1.50 seconds.

“Clearly, there are individuals subsequent to you and they will push you, nevertheless it does not matter if you happen to do not concentrate on the obstacles in entrance of you,” McLaughlin-Levrone defined. “That was my focus, attempting to be as environment friendly as I may over my 10 hurdles and attempting to decrease that point each time.”

McLaughlin-Levrone had set the outdated document, 50.65 seconds, on June 30 on the U.S. Olympic trials.

This was billed as one of many must-see races on the Stade de France, given the rivalry between McLaughlin-Levrone and Femke Bol of the Netherlands. Cockrell crashed the celebration, with Bol ending third. She walked down the monitor, shaking her head.

McLaughlin-Levrone will make rivals do this.

“I screwed it up,” Bol mentioned. “I am unsure the place I made the error. I simply bought a lot lactic acid with 300 meters to go. I am unsure why; I actually don’t have any rationalization. That is only a unhealthy race.”

As soon as McLaughlin-Levrone crossed the end line, she seemed up on the scoreboard and gave a fast smile. She makes breaking data look virtually like a stroll within the park.

And though she is aware of there are issues she will clear up, it was inching nearer to an ideal race — and to breaking into 49-second territory.

“It is simply build up that capability in your legs to deal with going that quick,” mentioned McLaughlin-Levrone, who married Andre Levrone Jr., a former NFL soccer participant, in 2022.

McLaughlin-Levrone moved to 3-0 in races towards Bol. She beat Bol on the Tokyo Video games in 2021 (Bol completed third there too) and once more a 12 months later on the world championships in Oregon. McLaughlin-Levrone was harm final season and did not race when the world championships had been in Budapest. That opened the the door for Bol to win her first world crown.

After this race, McLaughlin-Levrone gave Bol a consoling hug and a few encouraging phrases.

“I used to be like, ‘You’re superb,'” she mentioned. “She simply began the hurdles not too way back, so I believe she’s doing nice.”

Cockrell, too, lowered her personal-best time — by 0.77 seconds.

“I’ve all the time known as myself a showtime lady,” Cockrell mentioned. “When the lights come on, I come out to play.”

Coached by Bobby Kersee, McLaughlin-Levrone has been steadily constructing towards this second for 2 years. Principally out of the highlight. She’s been racing in sprints at 200 and 400 meters and in addition within the quick hurdles — 100 meters, and 60 meters indoors — to achieve expertise, pace and approach.

All of it paid off Thursday with one other record-breaking efficiency in entrance of a packed home.

“I knew this was potential,” mentioned McLaughlin-Levrone, who celebrated her birthday Wednesday. “I knew it was most likely going to take a world document to win this race.”

Afterward, she paraded across the monitor sporting a tiara her sister-in-law introduced for her to put on.

“I simply hoped it will be a race worthy of holding [the tiara] up,” McLaughlin-Levrone cracked.

She burst on the scene as a teen, the runner with the bizarre capability to juggle whereas using a unicycle. She competed within the 2016 Olympics at age 17.

McLaughlin-Levrone, who’s from New Jersey, went to the College of Kentucky and now lives in Los Angeles, additionally has a gold medal from Tokyo as a part of the ladies’s 4×400 relay.

She’s elevating her hand to be on the 4×400 relay staff in Paris.

“I am all the time right here,” McLaughlin-Levrone mentioned, “in the event that they want me.”

Yet one more match to go.

That is all former Iowa wrestler and three-time NCAA champion Spencer Lee has in his approach of a gold medal on the 2024 Paris Olympics after he rattled off three wins Thursday morning. By securing, at worst, a silver medal within the 57kg class along with his efforts so far, Lee would be the eleventh Hawkeye wrestler to win an Olympic medal. It additionally marks back-to-back cycles for a Hawkeye wrestler to medal, as Lee follows up Thomas Gilman’s bronze in Tokyo.

If Lee defeats Japan’s Rei Higuchi on Friday, a 2016 Olympic silver medalist and 2022 World champion, he could be the sixth Hawkeye ever to win Olympic gold in wrestling. The Pennsylvania native would be part of Ed and Lou Banach, Tom Manufacturers, Randy Lewis and Terry McCann in that elite membership. Lee would even be the primary to take action since 1996 when Manufacturers gained gold.

Manufacturers, the top coach at Iowa, additionally occurs to be in Lee’s nook in the course of the Olympic matches.

The Newest:2024 Olympic Wrestling Day 4 dwell updates: Spencer Lee to gold-medal match, finishes 3-0

Just one Iowa wrestler has taken silver on the Olympics, with Barry Davis claiming second place in 1984. All-time, Iowa wrestlers are 5-1 in Olympic gold medal matches.

Lee started his run on the 2024 Paris Olympics with a 3-2 win over China’s Wanhao Zou. That opponent could also be acquainted to those that adopted Lee’s qualification for the Olympics. Zou pushed Lee to the brink in a 10-9 match in the course of the Final Probability Olympic Qualifier, which the ex-Hawkeye narrowly eeked out. However on Thursday, a single-leg takedown right into a push-out by Lee was sufficient to win towards Zou, claiming a 3-2 end result.

After a calculated, exact match towards Zou, Lee let it fly towards Bekzat Almaz Uulu of Kyrgyzstan, a U23 World bronze medalist and fifth-place winner on the 2023 Senior World Championships. Uulu received a takedown within the opening seconds of the match, however Lee dusted himself off and dominated from there. He had three four-point sequences of a takedown adopted by a leg lace or intestine wrench from par terre to win in a 12-2 technical fall.

Towards Uzbekistan’s Gulomjon Abdullaev within the semifinal, a former Tokyo Olympian, Lee opened with a single-leg takedown simply over a minute into the bout to guide 2-0. With slightly below a minute to go within the first interval, one other Lee takedown into a number of intestine wrenches appeared to provide the previous Hawkeye a 12-0 lead. Nevertheless, a overview revealed a four-point transfer for Abdullaev on a takedown and into publicity, and the rating was modified to a 10-4 lead for Lee as a substitute.

Nonetheless, Lee did not hesitate following the overview, scoring a cartwheel-like takedown and into yet one more intestine wrench to safe a 14-4 technical fall within the first interval. Consequently, he has secured no less than a silver for Staff USA and the Iowa Hawkeyes.

“I believe I wrestled all proper,” Lee informed the media in Paris following his win. “I believe I used to be composed, sensible. I believe I let a few of the pressures of the Video games get to me. I believe I ought to open up a little bit extra and simply be a little bit smarter, however finally, three fairly diligent, sensible matches.”

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Lee’s par terre offense was on full show on Paris, scoring 14 of his 29 complete factors by intestine wrenches or leg laces. Hitting on which may be essential towards a high-scoring Higuchi, as Lee can catch up from a deficit or develop an enormous lead at a second’s discover as he has previously.

It’ll be a tall job for Lee towards a highly-accomplished senior wrestler who has been equally as dominant so far, outscoring his opponents 27-2 to Lee’s 29-8. If Lee is to win gold, search for his work on high to be the primary issue.

Lee took a visit to Japan to clear his thoughts following his loss within the semifinals of the NCAAs his senior season. Whereas he was there, Lee says Higuchi reached out asking to satisfy him, however the two had been unable to satisfy up. Nevertheless, Lee has admired him since he noticed Higuchi win silver on the Olympics in 2016 and is worked up concerning the matchup.

“I do know he is actually excited for yet one more as effectively,” Lee mentioned. “I do know he would not need silver, however I do not need silver both. We’re gonna go on the market and do our greatest to placed on a present.”

Eli McKown covers highschool sports activities and wrestling for the Des Moines Register. Contact him atEmckown@gannett.com. Observe him on Twitter at @EMcKown23.