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CHarlotte Dujardin titled her 2018 memoir The Girl on the Dancing Horse in a move that seemed to acknowledge she was almost famous but not quite. After the Paris Olympics, she had her sights set on winning a medal and potentially becoming the top British female Olympian.Her chance to make history disappeared before the Olympics even began. The 39-year-old withdrew after a video was made public four years ago that showed an “error in judgement” in which she allegedly abused a horse during a coaching session. The International Equestrian Federation (FEI) provisionally banned her for six months.”While what happened is…
Katie Stone, the former coach of Harvard University's women's ice hockey team, filed a lawsuit against the university on Tuesday accusing it of sex discrimination, alleging that reports of misconduct were false and that the university undervalued and underpaid female coaches.Stone, who is due to retire in June 2023, announced the lawsuit at a news conference Tuesday afternoon alongside his legal team and other former Harvard hockey players.Stone coached at Harvard for 27 seasons before resigning amid an investigation into allegations of mistreatment of players, including insensitivity to mental health issues, downplaying injuries, leading derogatory chants against players and creating…
At ONE 168: Denver, an exciting mixed martial arts showdown between Hiroba Minowa and Sanjar “Tornado” Zakirov will bolster the card for ONE’s return to North America. The strawweight stars will meet in primetime USA on Friday, September 6, with Minowa putting his No. 4 ranking on the line in a crucial bout at Ball Arena. Since joining the world's largest martial arts organization in 2020, Minowa has only competed among the upper echelons of the division. Both of his opponents are top-five ranked, including two ONE Strawweight MMA World Champions. However, that resulted in him suffering three decision losses…
SAN FRANCISCO — Meta has released a new artificial intelligence model that it says rivals technology from OpenAI and Google, and made it available for free for anyone to use.The new model, called Llama 3.1, extends Meta's strategy of open-sourcing its models, allowing anyone to use and modify them without paying the company a fee.If Meta is successful, it could undermine the business models of rival tech giants and make it easier for startups to compete with the likes of OpenAI, while also giving fraudsters, state-sponsored hackers, and other bad actors access to cutting-edge technology.Meta released the latest version of…
New Phoenix Suns head coach Mike Budenholzer has taken another step in strengthening his coaching staff with the hiring of Brent Barry, who played for the San Antonio Spurs while Mike Budenholzer was an assistant coach there.A source confirmed the addition to The Arizona Republic. ESPN first reported the news on Tuesday morning.Barry has worked for the Spurs as vice president of basketball operations since September 2018 but has no NBA coaching experience.Brent, the son of Hall of Famer Rick Barry, played four seasons in San Antonio from 2004 to 2008. Budenholzer was an assistant under Gregg Popovich during those…
boot On Thursday A routine software update that had a ripple effect for days afterward caused record freezes in many parts of the world. Cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike, deployed on Microsoft systems, installed an update that analysts said likely compromised quality. testresult, Estimated 8.5 million Computers have become perhaps the biggest cyber event in history. Affected were Microsoft-based systems vital to the online operations of banks, hospitals, police forces, major airlines, television networks and government agencies, canceling flights and surgeries, closing courts and government offices and creating new vulnerabilities for hacking. Federal Government.The government shutdown has highlighted Americans' collective cybervulnerability and…
The Olympic men's soccer tournament is a unique opportunity for future talent and forgotten stars to come together and put on a show at the world's oldest athletics competition.With most of the top international stars having left for holidays after the Copa America and European Championships in the summer and before the club season resumed, the Olympic men's tournament will continue as a youth competition with a few veteran players mixed in.The Olympic men's tournament is an U-23 competition played amid a congested international soccer calendar, with all but a few players born after Jan. 1, 2001. Each team has…
Comcast (CMCSA) said Tuesday it is confident it can close an 11-year NBA media rights deal, despite Warner Bros. Discovery's (WBD) TNT network exercising those rights the day before.Warner Bros. has aired select games through its TNT network since 1989. The company reportedly pays $1.2 billion a year for the rights, which expire at the end of next season. The company said Monday that it paid the same amount in a media bid to continue broadcasting the rights to NBA games, but it is unclear whether the league will continue the partnership.”We expect an 11-year rights agreement between us and…
The International Equestrian Federation has provisionally suspended British Olympian and world number four-ranked dressage athlete Charlotte Dujardin. The decision came hours after Dujardin announced she was withdrawing from the Paris Olympics and all other competitive events following the release of a four-year-old video showing her allegedly making an “error in judgment” while coaching. “The FEI received a video showing Mr Dujardin engaging in conduct contrary to horse welfare principles” on Monday, July 22, the organization said in a statement. “The video was submitted to the FEI by lawyers representing the anonymous plaintiff. According to the information received, the footage was…
CLEMSON — Clemson University football defensive tackle Caden Story was indicted on a marijuana possession charge Sunday.According to Pickens County court records, the redshirt sophomore was charged with possession of less than 28 grams (1 ounce). This is Story's first offense, and the charge is classified as a misdemeanor. His case, which was filed Tuesday, has been recorded as a criminal matter, and he must pay $615 in fines and costs.If Story is convicted, he faces a sentence of not more than 30 days in jail or a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $200 under South…