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The next Invictus Games will be held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada in February 2025, and winter sports like alpine skiing, snowboarding, biathlon, Nordic skiing, skeleton and wheelchair curling will be introduced for the first time.
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Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024
Skiers and snowboarders have seen firsthand the changes that, according to a 2022 Canadian study, could render all but one of the previous 21 Winter Olympics cities too warm to reliably host downhill races, biathlons and halfpipe competitions by the end of the century.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
But if that’s not enough, the swimming portion of the race will be canceled entirely, turning it into a summer biathlon with only running and biking.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 28 July 2024
Prominent national figures, including actors, doctors, the Olympic biathlon champion Darya Domracheva, and the former tennis champion Victoria Azarenka, have recorded videos and signed petitions calling for an end to the violence and respect for the demands of the demonstrators.
—Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2020
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Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024
Skiers and snowboarders have seen firsthand the changes that, according to a 2022 Canadian study, could render all but one of the previous 21 Winter Olympics cities too warm to reliably host downhill races, biathlons and halfpipe competitions by the end of the century.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
But if that’s not enough, the swimming portion of the race will be canceled entirely, turning it into a summer biathlon with only running and biking.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 28 July 2024
Prominent national figures, including actors, doctors, the Olympic biathlon champion Darya Domracheva, and the former tennis champion Victoria Azarenka, have recorded videos and signed petitions calling for an end to the violence and respect for the demands of the demonstrators.
—Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2020
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Who's winning the AI race Competition in AI is less a single race than a triathlon: There's a face-off to develop the most advanced generative AI foundation models; a battle to win customers by making AI useful; and a struggle to build costly infrastructure that makes the first two goals possible.Ina Fried, Axios, 11 Dec. 2024
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And as a veteran triathlon journalist, Culp has particularly good access and insights into that world.Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 2 Dec. 2024
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The Meet of Champions pentathlon champion (3,378) also placed fourth in New Englands with a 14.81 in the 100-meter hurdles.Brian Roach, Boston Herald, 19 July 2024
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The game is a six-legged pentathlon that takes place on a rainbow track.Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
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In many ways, support for the decathlon and heptathlon is not trending in the right direction.Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 27 July 2024
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Grenada: The island nation in the eastern Caribbean needed just six athletes to win a medal, taking bronze in the men’s decathlon for an average of 0.1667 medals per athlete.Mark Puleo and John Bradford, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
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For Medvedev, defeat against Tien marks his earliest exit from the Australian Open since 2018, having finished runner-up at three of the last four tournaments.George Ramsay, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
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And festivals—not to mention tennis tournaments—require food.Tim Newcomb, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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Anna Hall celebrates after finishing her last event of the Olympic Trials heptathlon.Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 27 July 2024
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Since falling short of qualifying for the U.S. team in the heptathlon after a fall in the Olympic Trials before the 2020 games, Anna Hall has received regular encouraging calls from Joyner-Kersee while preparing for the 2024 Games.Melissa Lockard, The Athletic, 18 July 2024
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Howe’s men will share the club record of nine consecutive victories across all competitions with Kevin Keegan’s vintage (May to September 1994) and Rafa Benitez’s Championship-winning side (September to November 2016).Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
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Making better use of A.I., Mr. Burns said, is crucial to the U.S. competition with China.Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
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This year, Cleveland hosts the first and second rounds of the men's tourney.Troy Smith, Axios, 10 Jan. 2025
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Each of the two men’s tourneys operated under a one-year contract.Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025
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Acer Nitro Blaze 8 and 11: specs and price The Acer Nitro Blaze 8 sports a 144Hz 8.8-inch WQXGA display with a resolution of 2560 x 1600.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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When Karp broadened the list, sports accounted for 182 of the top 200 shows of 2024.Richard Deitsch, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Biathlon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biathlon. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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