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Everest mountaineer George Lowe dies at 89

March 21, 2013 0

FILE - In this Aug. 8, 1953 file photo, Sir Edmund Hillary, left, and his fellow New Zealander George Lowe, are welcomed home to New Zealand following their arrival by air at Auckland. (AP Photo, File)

LONDON: George Lowe, the last surviving climber from the team that made the first successful ascent of Mount Everest, has died, his wife said Thursday. He was 89. Mary Lowe said her husband died Wednesday at a nursing home in Ripley, central England, after an illness. Lowe and his friend Edmund Hillary were the only two New Zealanders on the 1953 …

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Erdogan says comments on Zionism ‘misunderstood’

March 20, 2013 0

Erdogan says comments on Zionism 'misunderstood'

COPENHAGEN: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in remarks published Wednesday that his controversial comments branding Zionism a crime against humanity had been misunderstood. Erdogan, who has often attacked Israeli policies, triggered a storm of protest about his comments on Zionism at a UN forum in Vienna last month. “I understand that my statement in Vienna led to some debate. But no one should misunderstand …

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Phelps throws cold water on comeback report

March 19, 2013 0

United States' Michael Phelps smiles on the podium before being presented with the gold medal in the men's 100-meter butterfly swimming final at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Friday, Aug. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

LOS ANGELES: Olympic swimming great Michael Phelps has thrown cold water on a report that he would come out of retirement with a view to swimming at the 2016 Rio Games. “Why do I keep getting texts about coming back?” Phelps said on Twitter Friday night after a Florida television station reported he planned to return to the pool. Peter Busch of an NBC station in Fort Myers, Florida, …

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Japan PM says Tokyo 2020 will be ‘inspiring’

March 4, 2013 0

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, second right, accompanied by Japan Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda, right, attends a presentation by Tokyo 2020 Bid Committee for the panel of the International Olympic Committee's evaluation commission in Tokyo Monday, March 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Tokyo 2020 Bid Committee)

TOKYO: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday Tokyo could be an inspiration for other cities if it wins the right to host the 2020 Olympics, after becoming the first place in Asia to get the Games in 1964. Promising his government’s “fullest” support for Tokyo’s new Olympic bid, Abe told inspectors from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that hosting the Games was his “life-long dream”. “Tokyo, 2020, will …

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Salafists fail to stop ‘Harlem Shake’ in Tunisia

February 27, 2013 0

Salafists fail to stop 'Harlem Shake' in Tunisia

TUNIS: Salafist Muslims tried to prevent the filming of current Internet craze the “Harlem Shake” at a Tunis school on Wednesday, but were driven off after coming to blows with students, an AFP correspondent said. When the dozen or so ultra-conservative Muslims, some of them women in veils, showed up at the Bourguiba Language Institute in the El Khadra neighbourhood, a Salafist bastion, students shouted “Get out, get out!” …

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Aussie swimmers face sanction over sleeping pills

February 22, 2013 0

Australian swimmer James Magnussen (L) Eamon Sullivan (2/L) and members of Australia's much-hyped men's Olympic swim relay team speak at a press conference in Sydney on February 22, 2013. AFP PHOTO/William WEST

SYDNEY: Former world swimming champions James Magnussen and Eamon Sullivan, and their 4×100-meter relay teammates, face possible sanctions including a loss of funding from the Australian Olympic Committee after admitting taking the sleeping medication Stilnox during a “bonding session” ahead of last year’s London Games. Magnussen, Sullivan, Tommaso D’Orsogna, Cameron McEvoy, James Roberts and Matthew Targett fronted a media conference Friday with Swimming Australia president Barclay Nettlefold, and released a joint statement …

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US and Iran find common ground: Olympic wrestling

February 19, 2013 0

U.S. National freestyle wrestling coach Zeke Jones, right, and his team members arrive at the Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran, Iran, early Tuesday morning, Feb. 19, 2013, to attend World Cup tournament. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

TEHRAN: Arch foes Iran and the U.S. have found some common ground in the fight to save wrestling as an Olympic sport. U.S. wrestling coach Zeke Jones on Tuesday called the sport an important “ambassador,” suggesting possible cooperation to fight a decision by the International Olympic Committee to drop wrestling from the 2020 Games. “Wrestling has brought closer the people of Iran and the U.S.,” Jones …

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Wrestlers vow to fight Olympic removal

February 13, 2013 0

Cuba's Livan Lopez Azcuy (R) wrestles Azerbaijan's Jabrayil Hasanov in their Men's 66kg Freestyle bronze medal match on August 12, 2012 during the wrestling event of the London 2012 Olympic Games. AFP PHOTO / MARWAN NAAMANI

PARIS: Wrestlers around the world on Wednesday vowed to fight to save the ancient sport’s Olympic status, after the International Olympic Committee voted to drop it for the 2020 Games. Japan and Turkey — whose cities Tokyo and Istanbul are bidding to host the Games in seven years’ time — led the calls for the world body to reconsider, as an online petition was organised urging a …

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August 27, 2025 0

Stake.us casino review

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