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ocmb Even as the Tokyo Summer Olympics gets rolling, boss not ruling out COVID-forced - CharlesteGeork - 12-23-2024
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Four visually impaired Paralympians turned in such blazing times in the menrsquo 1,500-meter track and field final, they beat the best effor adidas samba t of the gold medal winner from the earlier Olympics, according to multiple media outlets.ESPN reports thatAlgeriarsquo Abdellatif Baka won gold with a blazing time of3 minutes, 48.29 seconds at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, which was better thanOlympic gold medalist Matthew Centrowitzrsquo winning time of 3:50 in the menrsquo 1,500-meter final.It wasnrsquo;t easy to get this gold medal, Abdellatif said afterward, according to the Huffington Post. Irsquo;ve been working one or two years nonstop and itrsquo been very, very hard for me. ESPN reports Tamiru Demisse of Ethiopia 3:48.59 took silver behind Baka, Henry Kirwa of Kenya 3:49.59 got bronze and Fouad Baka of Algeria 3:49.59 finished in fourth place. WOW! The top four finishers in last night s 1500m T13 race were faster than the Olympic gold medallist at Rio2016 Paralympicsmdash; Craig Spence @craigspence September 12, 2016 The 1,500-meter race in the Olympics is considered to be more of a tactical event than a speed event, according to many track and field observers. salomon 2016 adidas original campus Rio Olympics More Tety Norwegians unite in terror aftermath
In their first-ever direct vote for a mayor, Londoners Thursday shunned the advice of Prime Minister Tony Blair and elected Red Ken Livingstone, a longt stanley cup ime left-wing rabble-rouser.Voters had to mark a first and second choice on their bal stanley cups uk lots. Livingstone won 38 percent of the first preference votes to 26.5 percent for Conservative Steve Norris, and won th stanley us e required majority in the count of second-preference ballots.Labor mayoral candidate Frank Dobson, Blair s personal pick for the job, finished third with 13 percent of the first-preference vote, a point ahead of the Liberal Democrats Susan Kramer. As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted 14 years ago, Livingstone quipped, referring to the 1986 abolition of the previous London-wide government, which he headed. Related CommentaryCBS News Correspondent Kimberly Dozier says Londoners used this election to knock Prime Minister Tony Blair s increasingly arrogant government down a peg or two.Click here for her Letter From LondonCBS News Correspondent Tom Fenton reports that to Blair, Livingstone is a reminder of the Loony Labor Party of the 1980s, whose progressive principles voters regularly rejected.Blair has referred to Livingstone s supporters as a ragbag of Trotskyists and Tory newspapers. Fearing a Livingstone candidacy, he changed the way Labor Party selected its mayoral candidate to muscle Red Ken out. Dobson, a former Health Secretary, was named the party s standard bearer. Livingstone was then ex