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Maude Charron gagne la médaille d’argent à Paris | Jeux olympiques

La Québécoise venait de rater sa troisième et dernière tentative à l’épaulé-jeté. Une cost de 132 kg qui l’aurait menée vers un document panaméricain. Elle a réussi l’épaulé, mais a chuté vers l’arrière au second de soulever la barre au-dessus de sa tête.

Charron occupait provisoirement le 2e rang après l’arraché, où elle avait soulevé 106 kg. Elle montrait un whole de 236 kg, et son type était entre les mains de deux opposantes.

Yenny Alvarez, qui avait vaincu Charron aux Jeux panaméricains de Santiago en 2023, a eu l’event de devancer la Canadienne. Comme cela a été le cas à ses deux premières tentatives, la Colombienne n’a pas été en mesure de compléter son mouvement à 132 kg.

Ne restait plus que Kuo Hsing-chun, championne olympique de cette catégorie à Tokyo. Elle s’est présentée à la plateforme avec l’ambition de lever 137 kg, soit 7 kg de plus qu’à son essai précédent.

Son échec lui a tout de même conféré la médaille de bronze en raison d’un whole de 235 kg. Il a surtout ouvert la voie à Maude Charron jusqu’à la deuxième marche du podium par un mince avantage d’un kilogramme.

Tout ce que je voulais, c’était faire du mieux que je pouvais aujourd’hui, a dit la porte-drapeau canadienne à la cérémonie d’ouverture, les yeux humides et avec sa médaille d’argent autour du cou. Si ça venait avec une médaille, tant mieux! Je savais que j’avais des possibilities, mais honnêtement, tout ce que je voulais, c’était réussir mes essais et avoir du plaisir. Maintenant, tout ce que je veux, c’est célébrer avec ma famille et en profiter!

La Chinoise Luo Shifang l’a emporté grâce à un whole de 241 kg. En tête après l’arraché, la championne du monde était déjà assurée du titre après son deuxième essai à l’épaulé-jeté, qui était de 134 kg.

C’était merveilleux! Juste d’entendre la foule, de voir ma famille et le drapeau canadien. C’est tellement différent de mon expérience à Tokyo et ça représente tellement plus pour moi, peu importe la couleur de la médaille! C’est plus vital de voir que ma famille est ici, je suis soulagée et très contente.

Une quotation de L’haltérophile Maude Charron

Une catégorie relevée

La finale des 59 kg s’annonçait comme l’un des concours les plus serrés de l’histoire en haltérophilie.

Maude Charron a été couronnée championne des 64 kg à Tokyo, mais cette catégorie a été retirée du programme olympique l’année suivante. Elle a gagné l’or aux Jeux du Commonwealth, en 2022, puis a fait la transition vers les 59 kg.

En plus de Kuo Hsing-chun qui tentait de défendre sa couronne, l’émergence de Luo Shifang et la présence de l’Ukrainienne Kamila Konotop laissaient présager un embouteillage sur le podium.

Luo, 23 ans, a établi un document du monde en avril, à la Coupe du monde de Phuket, en Thaïlande. Kamila Konotop a quant à elle décroché la médaille d’argent aux derniers Championnats du monde.

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Le spectacle attendu a bel et bien eu lieu à l’Aréna Paris Sud 6. Pour preuve, pas moins de cinq haltérophiles ont surpassé l’ancienne marque olympique des 59 kg à l’arraché, qui était de 103 kg.

Konotop a eu quelques ennuis en début de compétition. L’Ukrainienne s’est blessée à l’arraché et a laissé retomber la barre. Elle a été incapable de faire ses deux derniers levers à l’épaulé-jeté.

De son côté, Charron n’a pas eu de difficulté à soulever 106 kg à son troisième passage sur la plateforme. Elle a du même coup égalé son document personnel. Si elle prévoyait tenter sa probability à 107 kg au départ, son entraîneur a jugé qu’il était plus sûr de se limiter à 106 kg.

L’haltérophile canadienne Maude Charron a décroché la médaille d’argent des 59 kg, jeudi, aux Jeux olympiques de Paris.Picture : Radio-Canada

Luo a été la dernière athlète à concourir. Non sans peine, elle est parvenue à lever 107 kg pour prendre les devants. La barre est passée bien près de lui filer des mains et de tomber derrière elle, mais la Chinoise l’a stabilisée avec succès.

Ses 107 kg à l’arraché, ses 134 kg à l’épaulé-jeté et son whole de 241 kg représentent trois data olympiques chez les 59 kg.

Plusieurs défis avant Paris

Cette médaille d’argent, Maude Charron ne l’a pas volée. Après son triomphe aux Jeux olympiques de Tokyo, elle a hésité à se lancer dans un nouveau cycle olympique.

Maude Charron a égalé son document personnel aux Jeux olympiques de Paris.Picture : Getty Photographs / Matthew Stockman

Les trois dernières années ont finalement été ponctuées d’un changement de catégorie et d’un nouveau processus de qualification olympique.

Le cycle a aussi été compliqué par une blessure à un genou. L’athlète de Sainte-Luce s’est tenue à l’écart de la compétition pendant plusieurs mois. Elle a notamment tiré un trait sur les derniers Championnats du monde pour récupérer.

Charron a effectué son retour un mois plus tard aux Jeux panaméricains de Santiago et a été récompensée d’une médaille d’argent. Une efficiency de bon augure pour celle qui s’était limitée afin de protéger son genou. Sans shock, sa plus grande fierté découle de sa persévérance face aux nombreux défis auxquels elle a dû faire face. Elle sera maintenant bien entourée pour fêter son succès.

Je venais à Paris pour vivre une expérience olympique comme j’en rêvais, avec ma famille dans la foule. Je voulais faire la cérémonie d’ouverture et j’ai été nommée porte-drapeau. J’ai entendu dire que ça portait malchance, je peux confirmer que non!

Une quotation de Maude Charron

Elle a d’ailleurs croisé des membres de sa famille après la cérémonie des médailles, juste avant de rencontrer les médias en zone mixte.

On n’a pas dit grand-chose, on a juste pleuré!, a confié la médaillée d’argent en riant. Pas beaucoup de mots, beaucoup de larmes de joie, a-t-elle conclu.

So Bad It’s Just Bad

An hour after leaving a screening of the brand new Borderlands film, directed by Eli Roth (Hostel) and starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Ariana Greenblatt, I’m looking at a blinking cursor in a clean Google Doc, urging inspiration to strike.

Absolutely a live-action film based mostly on the wildly profitable edgelord online game franchise from 2K and Gearbox would encourage a pair hundred phrases, proper? Absolutely the star-studded solid, which incorporates a number of Oscar winners (and Jack Black), would immediate a spark of creativity. Absolutely the colourful visuals, cacophonous explosions, and poop and pee jokes would destroy the author’s block dam, sending forth a surge of witty phrases and succinct sentences. However I’m at a loss.

Borderlands is not only unhealthy, it’s miserable.

On the border of a breakdown

I noticed Borderlands at an early screening at Alamo Drafthouse, throughout which cosplay was inspired. Nobody wore costumes, and the theater was solemnly silent, as if we had been about to observe archival video of the deadliest WWII battle or discovered footage from 9/11. R-rated trailers aired earlier than it, prompting me to query if this film, directed by Roth (identified for his gory, gross violence), was rated R (it’s not).

Earlier than I’ve an opportunity to double-check the score, Cate Blanchett’s voice echoes by the theater. “Way back, our galaxy was dominated by an alien race,” she intones, sounding bizarrely flat for an extremely proficient actor who endeavored to ship a enjoyable, frenetic efficiency in one other superficial flick: 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok. I’m instantly assaulted by aggressive, slap-dash cuts and shimmery CGI pictures of weapons, neon indicators, and Psychos, as Blanchett (who performs Lilith, a personality who impressed early-twenties me a lot I acquired one among her quotes tattooed) offers us the plot overview with as a lot power as a ‘50s housewife who frequently mixes temper stabilizers and martinis.

Picture: Lionsgate / 2K

Lilith tells us that the Eridians laid the inspiration of this galaxy, then disappeared, abandoning a secret vault hidden on the planet Pandora, inside that are highly effective relics of the long-lost civilization. “That appears like some wacko B.S., huh?” Blanchett asks. I stifle a groan with an enormous chunk of my burger. Fairly than giving moviegoers the free-wheeling wanderlust that the Borderlands video games provide, the movie is extremely linear and simple: Lilith, a bounty hunter, is employed by the pinnacle of arms producer Atlas Industries to trace down his daughter Tiny Tina on the planet Pandora.

We’re launched to nearly all the major solid somewhat shortly: Hart as Roland, Greenblatt as Tiny Tina, Florian Munteanu as a Psycho named Kreig. Roland breaks Tiny Tina out of some type of facility by the use of a reasonably bland motion sequence, throughout which he punches a guard and calls him a “faux Stormtrooper-ass bitch.” I suppose which means Star Wars exists within the Borderlands universe? It doesn’t enhance after this.

When you instructed me Borderlands used AI for its dialogue, I’d consider you with out query. Practically each line that’s uttered with the type of faux peppiness I’d reserve for my elementary faculty cheer competitions is both a limp-dicked “edgy” joke that wouldn’t warrant a single Reddit upvote or a cliche phrase like “I’m too previous for this shit” and “This has been a actually lengthy day.” I may depend on one hand the strains that had been completely real—or at the very least not dripping with a lot snark they had been nearly sticky. There isn’t a humanity right here, simply humorless people.

When a needle-drop of Muse’s “Supermassive Black Gap” bleeds right into a scene by which it’s taking part in over the audio system in a Pandoran bar, I practically slam my head onto the desk. What are we doing right here?

Picture: Lionsgate / 2K

We have to discuss Tina

Blissfully, Borderlands isn’t that lengthy of a film, and the breakneck velocity at which the movie is paced means we meet Jamie Lee Curtis’ Tannis simply earlier than I want a pee break (I chugged a beer). Curtis performs her with a socially awkward twitchiness that I didn’t count on from the actor, and whereas it’s at the very least an try at imbuing the character with a persona, it’s extremely grating. However once more, she tried—Blanchett is phoning it in, Hart has no enterprise taking part in the straight man, and Greenblatt is doing the most effective she will be able to with materials that’s based mostly on a white character doing a blaccent (which the movie, fortunately, avoids). However even she will be able to’t save a line learn that requires her to say “badonkadonk” within the 12 months of our lord 2024.

And in addition, to not be ageist, however why the fuck is everybody so previous? Lilith is 22 years previous within the authentic Borderlands sport and Tannis is in her thirties—except for the star energy afforded by casting Blanchett and Curtis, the one cause for growing older up these characters is to allow them to play matronly figures to Greenblatt’s Tina.

And therein lies the primary drawback: centering Tina. The plot revolves round her believing she is the kid of Eridia and the important thing to opening the vault, and the movie hinges all the emotional weight on a personality who wears a bunny-ear headband and throws explosive teddy bears at folks whereas spewing one-liners like a sugar-crazed 11-year-old in a Fortnite foyer. She doesn’t encourage any type of empathy, even with Greenblatt’s valiant efforts and Blanchett’s solely actual performing going down of their scenes collectively. It’s like making a Gears of Struggle film with a Carmine brother on the middle—it’s going to be annoying from the soar.

All of this takes place in a bizarre CGI world that often appears respectable however is extra typically an illegible green-screen mess of explosions or muddy, darkish, murky nonsense. Lilith’s flame-orange hair and comedian guide costume set in opposition to a dusty, bland panorama and broken-down industrial buildings is visually and tonally jarring—it’s just like the filmmakers acquired midway to creating a film impressed by the cel-shaded world of Borderlands after which dumped all of it onto the units used for the Halo sequence. Talking of costumes, I’d like to know what the funds was for push-up bras. Tannis, Mad Moxxi, and Lilith all have their breasts pushed up so excessive they’re practically of their throats—it’s so desperately 2006, so harking back to the Victoria’s Secret Vogue Present, that I couldn’t assist however giggle. Boobs, am I proper?

By the point the movie ends and Jack Black’s Claptrap pops up on display through the credit to lament the lack of his Easter egg, I’m able to go house and cleanse my palate. I want some correct aughts trashiness, some costly needle drops, and a few questionable costumes. I get house, plop down on the sofa, and activate Gossip Woman. At the very least this has persona.


The Borderlands film isn’t so good it’s shocking, and it’s not so unhealthy it’s price a hate-watch. It’s merely unhappy. It seems like the results of a bunch of fits who sat round a shiny mahogany desk (like in that one Key and Peele sketch) and reminisced concerning the early aughts, a time earlier than the monetary disaster, a time when the time period “cancel” was reserved just for tv exhibits, a time when Muse was one of many largest rock bands on the planet.

It’s devoid of humanity and persona, regardless of making an attempt very, very exhausting to ascertain that it’s quirky. It’s the lady with frozen peas on her head within the grocery retailer aisle—she’s so crazzzzzyy, love her! It mustn’t exist.

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Borderlands: Like Watching Someone Play a First Person Shooter Game

And what’s lacking? Oh yeah. There’s a wise-cracking robotic named Claptrap, voiced by Jack Black, who was clearly given free rein within the sound studio to riff a relentless barrage of grating wisecracks. It’s no small accomplishment when Kevin Hart doesn’t play probably the most annoying character in a film.

And there’s Tannis (Curtis), a Pandora-based scientist who’s been preserving monitor of the varied objects-of-power that may give the chosen one entry to the Vault.

Mentioned “chosen one” is presumably the bratty Tiny Tina, who is aware of she’s particular and is able to toss an exploding teddy bear at anybody who disagrees. With “dad” and a small military of mercenaries sporting what appear to be darker Imperial Storm Trooper fits in sizzling pursuit, there’s a lot operating, capturing, and slender escapes for the primary two acts.

After which, for some motive, Borderlands turns into a superhero film. Attempt not to think about Captain Marvel when that occurs.

CrossFit Games death: Lazar Dukic dies in reported drowning

A 28-year-old man from Serbia has been recognized because the CrossFit Video games Athlete who died.

FORT WORTH, Texas — A CrossFit Video games athlete died after a reported drowning in a Fort Value lake on Thursday throughout the first day of competitors within the multi-day occasion, officers stated.

CrossFit officers in a information convention confirmed {that a} CrossFit athlete drowned within the swim portion of the CrossFit Sport’s first occasion. The occasion was held at Marine Creek Lake, close to the Tarrant County School Northwest campus.

The sufferer was recognized as Lazar Đukić,  28, of Serbia, in response to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Workplace. Đukić  was pronounced useless at 10:24 a.m., the medical expert information stated.

A reason behind the demise was not initially listed Thursday afternoon.

The remainder of the CrossFit Video games occasions had been canceled for Thursday. Officers determined to proceed the competitors Thursday evening. 

“After cautious thought and plenty of conversations internally, with athletes, and with Lazar Đukić’s household, it’s been determined that the CrossFit Video games will proceed all through the rest of the weekend at Dickies Area in Fort Value, Texas,” a press release from CrossFit Video games organizers learn.

In accordance with the discharge, a particular tribute honoring Lazar Đukić might be held at 10 a.m. Friday previous to the day’s occasions.

“CrossFit is deeply saddened by the demise of considered one of our athletes within the swim portion of our occasion this morning … We’re collaborating, we’re working very carefully with the authorities with the follow-up investigation,” Faul stated. 

Cole Study, a CrossFit athlete from Ontario, Canada witnessed the drowning from the shore of the lake Thursday morning. 

“Completely devastated, undecided what to assume, and nearly in denial,” Study stated. 

Study stated he witnessed the moments the athlete went below the water throughout the swimming occasion. 

“I noticed him form of begin to scramble he began doing small turns and he was making an attempt to get his head out of the water,” Study stated. “It was at the moment we began screaming to the lifeguard he wanted assist and in just a few seconds he was below, he by no means got here again up.” 

The CrossFit Video games had a security plan in place and security personnel on-site on the occasion, Faul stated. All the particulars of how the occasion and drowning unfolded Thursday might be a part of a evaluation with regulation enforcement, Faul stated. 

“I feel the CrossFit group must lean on one another proper now,” Study stated. “I’m not too certain the place the CrossFit video games are going to go from right here, however they will should make some drastic measurements to ensure this by no means occurs once more.”

The Fort Value Hearth Division was known as to the drowning report round 8 a.m. Video from the scene appeared to point out Fort Value Hearth Rescue pulling a physique from the water round 10 a.m. and putting it in a bag.

“I do know lots of you will have questions on who it was immediately… that data won’t be launched till the Tarrant County Medical Examiner has the chance to talk with the household and confirm the athlete’s identify and identification,” Leah Wagner, a spokesperson for the Fort Value Police Division, stated. 

The occasion the place the incident occurred was the web site of a run-swim occasion on the CrossFit Video games, in response to the occasion schedule. The run-swim was free for spectators to watch and miles away from the primary competitors house at Dickies Area. 

“There’s lots of people in the neighborhood which are hurting proper now, which are actually unhappy, that knew the athlete properly, that liked and revered this particular person and lots of people are mourning,” Faul stated.

Samantha Brown, who traveled from North Carolina to look at the CrossFit Video games stated the CrossFit group is shut, and a drowning occurring at considered one of their occasions is surprising. 

“It is terrible, particularly since it is not one thing that we’d ever anticipate to occur and would think about occurring,” Brown stated. “We’re all athletes right here and one thing like that is heartbreaking.” 

A GoFundMe has been began to assist Đukić’s household.

Are the CrossFit Video games Canceled?

Whereas it is unclear when the CrossFit Video games will resume, all occasions had been canceled Thursday. 

The occasions are scheduled for streaming on ESPN+ and several other different platforms together with Fb, Twitch and YouTube. All of the livestreams abruptly ended Thursday morning. Whereas scheduled livestreams remained on the ESPN+ platform, the 11 a.m. broadcast of occasions was not airing.

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The Sevan Podcast, which covers the CrossFit Video games, was livestreaming their reactions and commentary in regards to the competitors after they famous that the swimming occasion had been canceled.

“Which makes me assume one thing dangerous occurred, if they need everybody to go away” one of many podcasters stated.

The group then started enjoying audio from a lady who was explaining the state of affairs.

“It seems to be like now we have a severe difficulty on our arms,” the girl might be heard saying.

The group then obtained a name from somebody who was apparently on the scene and requested them to chop off their livestream. 

“Guys we’ll have to finish the stream,” one of many podcasters stated. “It seems to be like one thing severe has occurred.”

The highest 40 women and men from seven qualifying competitions worldwide compete within the CrossFit video games.  

The primary CrossFit Video games occasion was held in 2007. That is the primary 12 months CrossFit has held its annual video games in Texas versus its typical location in Madison, Wisconsin. CrossFit’s CEO introduced the transfer in 2023 and touted the Dallas-Fort Value Worldwide Airport as a key driver of the transfer. 

The competitors will embody crew and particular person occasions and the competitors workouts will check athlete’s health in ten areas: Cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, flexibility, energy, coordination, agility, stability, and accuracy. Usually the challenges are unknown till the athletes step into the competitors, officers say.

CrossFit Video games drowning: Response

WFAA spoke with a few witnesses on the occasion, together with a fellow CrossFit athlete from Canada. 

Fort Value Mayor Mattie Parker launched the next assertion:

“We’re profoundly saddened by the tragic lack of a CrossFit athlete throughout a CrossFit Video games swimming occasion this morning. Our hearts exit to the athlete’s household, buddies and the complete CrossFit group. We take nice pleasure in being the host metropolis for the CrossFit Video games and stay dedicated to working carefully with CrossFit to offer a supportive setting for all athletes, spectators and guests. As such, now we have coordinated psychological well being and grief counselors to assist these in want throughout troublesome time.”

The ‘Borderlands’ Movie Debuts With A 0% On Rotten Tomatoes

I’m unsure I knew of anybody, Borderlands fan or not, who believed that the film adaptation of the sport was going to be good, primarily based on all the things from casting to trailers. Now as critiques are available forward of its launch tomorrow, these fears have been validated. After which some.

As I write this, the Borderlands film has a flat 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. No constructive critiques in anyway (Replace: A single constructive evaluate has are available elevating it to a 3%), and those which can be in are usually not simply adverse, however brutal. Right here’s a sampling:

  • Discussing Movie: “The followers deserve so much higher than no matter director Eli Roth is attempting to do with Borderlands. That is the online game film curse at its worst.”
  • Males’s Journal: “If Borderlands would not cease studio executives from salivating on the sight of each single IP that comes throughout their desks, nothing will.”
  • Subsequent Finest Image: “It’s spectacular how Roth can elicit the poor high quality of 2000s online game adaptation vitality but by some means overlook the discernable sense of enjoyable or type that made even these horrible motion pictures stand out.”
  • IGN: “Borderlands is an abysmal waste of a beloved franchise that takes a kooky band of murderous misfits and drains the life out of their first journey collectively.”

It’s true there are usually not many critiques in but, and the rating could tick up, however all the things I’ve seen exterior of some online game influencers who attended premieres (or are actually extras within the film) has been relentlessly adverse, and I might be stunned to search out greater than a handful of constructive critiques are available when all is claimed and carried out. If any.

A 0% on Rotten Tomatoes is after all as little as you may go. If we’re wanting on the worst-scored online game motion pictures ever made, that record would now be (Up to date record with the 4%):

  • Alone within the Darkish (2005) – 1%
  • Road Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009) – 3%
  • Home of the Lifeless (2003) – 3%
  • Borderlands (2024) – 3%
  • Within the Title of the King (2007) – 4%
  • Bloodrayne (2005) – 4%
  • Mortal Kombat Annihilation- 4%
  • Silent Hill Revelation (2012) – 8%
  • Hitman Agent: 47 (2015) – 8%
  • Postal (2007) – 9%

I put the yr there so you may see that almost all of those ultra-terrible ones are in a decade or so when making a superb online game adaptation was borderline unattainable and the one folks attempting had been administrators like Uwe Boll half the time. As of late, now we have seen very strong dwell motion online game variations on each movie (Sonic) and TV (The Final of Us, Fallout), and Borderlands appears to be a 10-15 yr step backward.

I do anticipate it to rise above a zero %. There are such a lot of critics on Rotten Tomatoes of questionable high quality and style that in all probability somebody will prefer it and knock it above a few of these (I’m a type of critics, so no judgement), however that has not occurred on the time of this writing.

Who noticed this coming? Everybody. Everybody did. And right here we’re.

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CrossFit Games 2024: Serbian athlete Lazar Dukic drowns during competition in Texas; CEO Don Faul said he is ‘gutted’ by death

A Serbian athlete drowned throughout a swimming occasion at a CrossFit competitors in Texas on Thursday, the group mentioned.

The demise occurred on the primary day of the CrossFit Video games, being held in Fort Price by way of Sunday. The occasions have been canceled for the remainder of the day, CrossFit mentioned.

The athlete was later recognized as Lazar Dukic by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner.

CrossFit CEO Don Faul mentioned throughout a press briefing he’s “gutted” by the demise.

“We’ll proceed to be targeted on our group and the household by way of this tragic set of circumstances,” Faul mentioned.

The incident occurred Thursday morning in Marine Creek Lake. The Fort Price Fireplace Division responded round 8 a.m. native time to a name concerning a CrossFit Video games participant who went lacking within the water, authorities mentioned.

First responders used dive groups and a drone to seek out Dukic, who was recovered from the water about an hour after the dive group response, authorities mentioned.

The physique of the athlete has been transferred to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner, police mentioned.

“There’s lots of people locally which are hurting proper now, which are actually unhappy, that knew the athlete effectively, that liked, revered this particular person,” Faul mentioned. “Lots of people are in mourning.”

Faul mentioned CrossFit is cooperating with authorities within the investigation.

The swimming portion of the occasion was being livestreamed on a number of platforms earlier than abruptly stopping Thursday morning, in keeping with Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA. Livestreams of the occasion are not accessible on CrossFit Video games’ platforms.

Security personnel have been on website throughout the occasion, Faul mentioned.

Thirty groups from around the globe are competing within the CrossFit Video games, which is being held in Texas for the primary time in its 18-year historical past.

CrossFit will likely be “regrouping” later Thursday to debate the plan for the rest of the video games, Faul mentioned.

It is a creating story. Please examine again for updates.

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Botswana’s Tebogo wins men’s 200m gold; Lyles, battling through COVID, lands bronze

Noah Lyles misplaced the Olympic 200 meters Thursday, falling to Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, then being tended to by medics who carted him off the observe in a wheelchair. Later, carrying a masks as he spoke with reporters, Lyles mentioned he had COVID-19.

After crossing the road third for the second straight Olympics, Lyles fell to his again and writhed on the bottom making an attempt to catch his breath. He acquired to at least one knee and stayed there for practically 30 seconds earlier than getting up, asking for water and attending to the wheelchair.

“It undoubtedly affected my efficiency,” he mentioned.”However I imply, to be trustworthy, I am extra pleased with myself than something for popping out and getting the bronze medal with COVID.”

He additionally gained the bronze within the Tokyo Olympics, and he has mentioned the empty stands and the year-long delay earlier than the Video games led to melancholy that hampered his efficiency and impressed his highway to Paris.

Lyles mentioned he examined optimistic early Tuesday morning and rapidly acquired into quarantine, although the U.S. observe federation (USATF) mentioned he examined optimistic on Monday.

“I nonetheless wished to run,” he mentioned. “They mentioned it was doable.”

The USATF launched a press release saying it and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee adhered to all Olympic and Facilities for Illness Management pointers.

“After an intensive medical analysis, Noah selected to compete tonight,” the assertion mentioned. “We respect his choice and can proceed to observe his situation carefully.”

The lads’s 4×100 relay is about for Friday, and Lyles was anticipated to run the anchor leg in what many thought could be a quest for a 3rd gold medal in Paris. He mentioned that call had not been made as of late Thursday.

“I need to be very trustworthy and clear, and I’ll allow them to make the choice,” Lyles mentioned, describing himself as being at round 90 or 95 per cent.

WATCH | Botswana’s Tebogo upsets American stars to win 200m gold:

Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo spoils the American social gathering by profitable Olympic 200m gold

Letsile Tebogo gained Botswana’s first-ever Olympic gold medal, by profitable the lads’s 200-metre race forward of People Kenny Bednarek, Noah Lyles and Erriyon Knighton.

Within the 200, Tebogo, 21, led wire-to-wire and gained in 19.46 seconds, the fourth-fastest time in historical past, however .15 slower than Lyles’ high time. Kenny Bednarek completed in 19.62 for his second straight silver, and Lyles, 4 nights after profitable a close-as-can-be 100, ran the curve in 19.70.

“It was actually a phenomenal race for me,” Tebogo mentioned after his victory.

“Once we made it to the ultimate, my coach simply advised me, now my job is completed, it is as much as you to see what you are able to do. Whether or not it is a medal or not, simply end the race wholesome. That is all I might’ve wished for. I am blissful I completed the race more healthy than earlier than.”

The primary signal one thing is likely to be incorrect got here an evening earlier when Lyles completed second in a lackluster semifinal, then left the observe with out speaking to reporters to move to the medical tent. His coach mentioned he was high-quality.

It grew to become clear he was not when Tebogo and Bednarek reached the curve within the ultimate.

Lyles was trailing as they headed into the homestretch, which is often the place he places on a trademark closing end that has all the time been the most effective a part of this race. This time — nothing. Solely a determined push to the road then a collapse onto the purple observe.

“To be trustworthy, I knew if I wished to return out right here and win, I needed to give all the pieces I had from the get-go. I did not have any time to save lots of vitality. In order that was sort of the technique for in the present day.”

Lyles was topped the “Quickest Man Alive” by edging out Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson by five-thousandths of a second within the the 100m champion on Sunday.

McLaughlin-Levrone breaks personal world report in 400m hurdles

An hour after that shock, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone lowered her world report for the sixth time, ending the 400m hurdles in 50.37 seconds for an additional Olympic blowout.

The hurdler anticipated to problem her hardest, Femke Bol, completed third, behind American Anna Cockrell, who completed 1.5 seconds behind McLaughlin-Levrone.

That is McLaughlin-Levrone’s second straight gold and likewise the second straight Olympics the virus has performed a significant function in Lyles’ journey to the Video games.

Canada’s Savannah Sutherland completed seventh.

WATCH l McLaughlin-Levrone units 50.37 world report to win 400m hurdles:

American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone units world report, claims gold within the 400-metre hurdles

A world report time of fifty.37 was set Thursday by Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of the US within the 400-metre hurdles ultimate, Canada’s Savannah Sutherland was seventh.

Debby spreads torrential rain and tornado threat north as it accelerates toward the Northeast



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After inflicting a minimum of six deaths within the Southeast, Debby weakened to a tropical despair Thursday however remained a harmful storm because it picked up velocity, spreading its torrential rain and twister risk north.

The middle of the system was 45 miles east of Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday afternoon, however its impacts stretched from the Carolinas to southern Pennsylvania and New Jersey because it accelerated towards the Northeast.

A twister watch was issued for components of North Carolina to the DC-Baltimore area. A number of twister warnings had been hoisted Thursday night because the system triggered thunderstorms with embedded rotation, together with one for an noticed twister close to Wilmington, Delaware.

Flood watches and warnings had been plastered up and down the Jap Seaboard as downpours developed over areas already drenched by Debby’s multi-day rains. Flood warnings prolonged to the US-Canada border, with forecasts calling for a number of inches of rain in upstate New York, Vermont and New Hampshire by Saturday.

Debby’s shift to the Northeast comes after its loss of life toll rose to 6 Thursday when a damaging twister killed a person in Lucama, North Carolina. The twister broken properties and a college within the space, which is round 35 miles southeast of Raleigh.

Observe the storm: Debby’s path

Since crashing into Florida as a Class 1 hurricane on Monday, Debby has dumped greater than a foot of rain over components of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. The deluges have engorged rivers, flooded roadways and trapped folks in automobiles, properties and boats – and probably harmful warmth is anticipated throughout the area within the coming days, threatening to complicate the restoration course of.

Much more chaos is on the horizon because the storm, a mirrored image of the amplifying penalties of human-fueled local weather change, heads towards the Northeast. Right here’s the most recent:

Debby’s loss of life toll climbs: One individual is lifeless after a twister spawned by Debby tore by a part of North Carolina’s Wilson County within the earliest hours of Thursday morning, forsaking harm to a center faculty, a church and a number of properties. A person was killed after his residence within the city of Lucama collapsed, a county spokesperson advised CNN. At the least 4 folks in Florida and one in Georgia had been additionally killed by Debby.

At the least a dozen tornadoes confirmed: Debby has whipped up a minimum of a dozen tornadoes as of Thursday which have roared by components of Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. A twister in Snow Hill, North Carolina early Thursday was described as “massive, extraordinarily harmful and probably lethal.” A twister watch is in impact by 8 p.m. ET for six.8 million folks in components of jap North Carolina and southern Virginia, together with the cities of Raleigh, Virginia Seaside and Richmond.

Debby’s present path: The system will decide up velocity as its heart strikes north and its impacts push into the Northeast. Debby will speed up by Pennsylvania and New York Friday and transfer by New England by early Saturday afternoon, bringing heavy rain and flash flooding to a area drenched by storms earlier this week.

Catastrophe declarations throughout the Southeast: President Joe Biden has authorized catastrophe declarations for Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas – all of which have been pummeled by Debby this week. Greater than 700 Federal Emergency Administration Company personnel have been deployed to the Southeast, and search and rescue groups are on standby to help as wanted, the company stated Wednesday.

Flash flood emergency: Debby’s torrential rainfall reduce off one North Carolina city from its surrounding areas after as much as 8 inches of rain fell in only a few hours Wednesday evening, in keeping with a uncommon flash flood emergency issued by the Nationwide Climate Service. Officers in Bladenboro – positioned within the southern a part of the state – reported 3 foot deep floodwater.

Triple-digit warmth coming for Southeast: Doubtlessly harmful warmth has been hovering over the Southeast in Debby’s wake and is anticipated to persist by the weekend as storm restoration continues. Whereas excessive temperatures within the higher 80s and decrease 90s are anticipated, the warmth indices – how the physique feels underneath mixed warmth and humidity – may exceed 110 levels, together with in Steinhatchee, Florida, close to the place Debby made its first landfall.

Debby’s deluge has been a transparent illustration of the influence of world warming attributable to fossil gas air pollution, which is inflicting storms to get wetter and strengthen extra shortly. Debby, as an example, tracked by near-record heat waters within the Gulf of Mexico, which helped it quickly intensify earlier than making landfall as a hurricane in Florida.

As Debby has churned by the Southeast, the storm has left behind disastrous scenes. Properties have been shredded by winds and swamped by floodwaters, and roads have been washed out or submerged, creating hazardous situations for impacted communities.

Three youngsters had been rescued by emergency crews from a flooded Marsh Creek in Raleigh after getting caught whereas making an attempt to cross the water on Thursday, CNN affiliate WRAL reported.

The kids had been a part of a gaggle of 5 who had been driving bikes after they stated they got here throughout the creek. The kids stated the creek seemed to be calm, and they also tried to cross it – two made it throughout, when all of a sudden the final three obtained caught within the surging waters.

An 11-year-old held onto a tree department along with his 8-year-old sister and their 10-year-old buddy as they waited for rescuers, WRAL reported. They had been rescued inside 5 minutes of rescuers’ arrival, the station reported.

In South Carolina’s Lowcountry, a house in Bluffton has turn out to be an alligator’s paradise as floodwaters turned Adrienne LeBlanc’s yard into an inviting swampland.

Although LeBlanc is not any stranger to alligators – typically seeing them sunbathing within the distance – she was shocked to get up after heavy rains Wednesday to find her yard had been invaded by alligators.

“It’s like Nationwide Geographic in our yard proper now,” LeBlanc advised CNN. She counted eight alligators swimming round her home and noticed just a few of them wrestling.

“Jokingly I advised my husband, ‘After I get up tomorrow that dangerous boy goes to be in our bed room,’” LeBlanc stated.

After 17 years of residing in Bluffton, LeBlanc stated she has skilled this stage of flooding as soon as – when Hurricane Matthew made landfall within the state in 2016.

South Carolina hasn’t seen a named storm make landfall on its shores since Hurricane Ian’s arrival in 2022 as a Class 1 storm. The final named storm to trace throughout the state in any trend was Tropical Storm Idalia in August 2023.

It is a growing story and will likely be up to date.

Lazar Dukic dies while swimming in CrossFit Games in Texas

An athlete died Thursday whereas swimming in a lake on the primary day of competitors on the CrossFit Video games in Fort Price, Texas, organizers of the worldwide occasion mentioned.

The Tarrant County health worker’s workplace recognized a physique recovered from Marine Creek Lake as Lazar Dukic, 28, of Serbia. No reason behind dying was given.

“CrossFit is deeply saddened by the dying of a CrossFit Video games competitor through the swimming portion of Particular person Occasion 1 on the 2024 CrossFit Video games,” the group mentioned in a press release. “We’re totally cooperating with authorities and doing all the things we are able to to assist the household right now. The rest of as we speak’s occasions have been suspended. The well-being of opponents is our first precedence and we’re heartbroken by this tragic occasion.”

A Fort Price Hearth Division official mentioned throughout a information convention that the division was requested to help police at round 8 a.m. as a result of there was “a participant within the water that was down and hadn’t been seen in some cut-off date.” The official mentioned it took the division’s dive workforce about an hour to search out the physique.

CrossFit CEO Don Faul and Fort Price Police Division Sgt. Leah Wagner additionally spoke on the information convention. Wagner said the identify of the sufferer was being withheld at the moment out of respect for the household.

“CrossFit is, as you recognize, in some methods like a household,” mentioned Faul, whose group first held the CrossFit Video games in 2007. “Folks care loads about one another. There’s lots of people locally which might be hurting proper now, which might be actually unhappy, that knew the athlete properly, that cherished, revered this individual.”

Dukic’s Instagram bio states that he was a “4x CrossFit Video games Athlete.”

In keeping with his bio on the 2024 CrossFit Video games web site, he ranked as Serbia’s No. 1 CrossFit athlete yearly from 2017-2021 and ranked at No. 3 within the nation this 12 months — one notch beneath his brother, Luka Dukic, 25, who can be listed as a 2024 CrossFit Video games competitor.

One other 2024 CrossFit Video games competitor Cole Be taught advised WFAA-TV in Dallas-Fort Price that he had solely met Dukic as soon as, however that assembly left an enduring impression.

“The one factor I keep in mind about him was simply how good he was,” Be taught mentioned. “He didn’t know who I used to be, however he took the time to speak to me, talked in regards to the competitors and the way it was going for him. … I’ve at all times cheered for him simply due to that second.”

Paris Olympics: Noah Lyles places third in 200 meters, has COVID

Minutes after Noah Lyles collapsed on the monitor, medical personnel wheeled him down an extended hallway, deep beneath the stands at Stade de France.

Somebody requested if he needed to name his mom. Lyles shook his head.

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“I simply wanted a while,” he stated. “In order that they wheeled me off the monitor.”

The world’s quickest man, it appeared, had been slowed by COVID.

Days after profitable gold in an exciting, historic 100 meters, a weakened Lyles struggled to complete third in his specialty, the 200, on the 2024 Summer time Olympics. Letsile Tebogo of Botswana received his nation’s first-ever gold medal with a time of 19.46 and Kenny Bednarek of the U.S. was second.

The 21-year-old Tebogo, a rising star in monitor, slapped his chest as he crossed the end line.

“It was actually a gorgeous race for me,” stated Tebogo, who not too long ago misplaced his mom and had written her start date on his footwear. “We had our ups and downs, however we simply made positive that we pulled by way of and made it to the Olympics.”

The outcome ended Lyles’ quest to win the 100, 200 and 400 relay — the coveted dash triple final achieved by the legendary Usain Bolt. Unbeknownst to virtually everybody, Lyle’s probabilities had taken a critical hit days beforehand.

The difficulty arose early Tuesday morning, about 36 hours after his 100 victory.

“I wakened in the course of the night time simply feeling actually chills, aching, sore throat,” he stated. “And people are sort of loads of the signs I’ve all the time had proper earlier than getting COVID.”

A take a look at got here again constructive and U.S. officers quietly moved him to a lodge outdoors the athletes village the place he remained, taking Paxlovid, for the following few days. Solely his coach and household knew the character of his absence.

“Why would you wish to inform your opponents you’re sick?” stated Lyles, who joined British swimmer Adam Peaty and Australian swimmers Lani Pallister and Zac Stubblety-Cook dinner amongst athletes who competed with COVID in the course of the Olympics. “Why would you wish to give them an edge over you?”

Due to relaxed well being protocols on the Video games, Lyles was allowed to proceed coaching and competing within the early rounds of the 200. If he appeared a bit off, that wasn’t too uncommon — his 100 prelims had been lackluster.

American Noah Lyles sits on the monitor after profitable the bronze medal within the 200-meter closing Thursday in Paris.

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Although his girlfriend — Jamaican runner Junelle Bromfield — advised him that he had been coughing all night time, the signs appeared to fade by Thursday morning.

Throughout introductions for the 200, Lyles burst onto the monitor like all the time, leaping up and down, pumping his fists. When the race started, he gambled on a quick begin however couldn’t muster the sort of end that has carried him to victories up to now.

“It positively affected my efficiency,” he stated of the sickness, estimating that he felt “like 90% to 95%” of full energy.

Tebogo, in the meantime, got here off the curve trying robust. After seeing Lyles’ victory on the world championships final 12 months, he had skilled arduous on that facet of his race and was capable of generate momentum to hold him down the house stretch.

Bednarek, sporting a trademark headband tied on the again, tried to comply with however couldn’t shut the hole, repeating his silver-medal end from three years in the past in Tokyo.

“This race wasn’t what I needed,” the American stated, “however I’m joyful to be again on the rostrum.”

Moments after the end, Lyles sank down and lay on the monitor, preventing shortness of breath and chest pains. Medical workers introduced him water and helped him to his ft earlier than ultimately taking him away in a wheelchair. His mom got here down from the stands, chasing after him down that hallway.

Nearly an hour later, the sprinter appeared earlier than reporters sporting a black face masks. Withdrawing from the 200 had by no means crossed his thoughts, he stated. As for operating the relay on Friday, he would go away that call to his coaches and teammates.

Contemplating his tough night time, Lyles sounded surprisingly upbeat.

“To be sincere,” he stated, “I’m extra happy with myself than something, popping out and getting the bronze medal with COVID.”