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fromSlate Magazine
8 hours ago
World news

Everything You Need to Know About Figure Skating at the Milan Cortina Games

The absence of Russia opens the Olympics to cleaner competition while concerns about the treatment and doping of young figure skaters persist.
fromwww.npr.org
3 days ago
US news

Olympic figure skating starts with the team event. Here's what to know about it

U.S. heads into the Olympic figure skating team event as heavy favorite against Japan, with Russia absent and the bronze wide open among multiple countries.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Welcome to new cold war as world descends on Italy amid global political chaos

Earlier this week, the IOC president, Kirsty Coventry, called for sport to be a neutral ground, separate from politics and the actions of governments. It was a worthy sentiment. But she might as well have been singing kumbaya in a warzone. While Coventry was speaking, US Olympic officials changed the name of an athlete hospitality space in Milan from Ice House to Winter House, following protests over the fatal shootings by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
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Soccer (FIFA)
fromwww.bbc.com
1 week ago

Infantino apologises for jokes about British fans

Gianni Infantino apologized for remarks about British football supporters, defended awarding Donald Trump a FIFA Peace Prize, and supported reconsidering Russia's ban.
Video games
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Roblox banned in Russia, local media says | TechCrunch

Russia banned Roblox, citing LGBTQ content and alleged safety failures; Roblox faces U.S. legal probes, moderation challenges, and plans mandatory facial verification.
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