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‘We’re all aging. Father Time hasn’t beaten me yet’: Nick Baumgartner on snowboarding in the Olympics at 44

The Upper Peninsula snowboarder races his fifth Olympic Games on Thursday, drawing on a career shaped by construction sites, small-town winters and the belief he could still reach the 2034 Games on home soil At an age when most Olympic snowboarders have already drifted into coaching, broadcasting or nostalgia, Nick Baumgartner is still doing the […]

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England to play New Zealand and Costa Rica in final pre-World Cup friendlies

Matches to take place in Florida in early June England based in Kansas City during tournament England will play World Cup warm-up matches against New Zealand and Costa Rica in Florida and base themselves in Kansas City for the duration of the tournament. Thomas Tuchel and his squad will fly to Florida at the start

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Eni Aluko damages her legacy with her latest attack on Ian Wright

The former England international is a pioneer in football and the media. But her broadside on TV punditry is another own goal, empowering the most chauvinistic commentators Is this what Eni Aluko envisioned? Did she think reigniting the somewhat one-sided row between herself and fellow pundit Ian Wright would resurrect her broadcasting career or make

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UK being ‘colonised by immigrants’, says Man United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe

Britain’s seventh-richest man, who vocally backed Brexit then moved to Monaco, also hits out at people on benefits The billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who moved to tax-free Monaco in 2020, has claimed that the UK is being “colonised” by immigrants. Speaking in an interview with Sky News, Britain’s seventh-richest man and the part-owner of Manchester

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‘I’m happy to defend my country’: meet Greenland’s Olympian defying Donald Trump

Ukaleq Slettemark is a beacon of hope at a time when even the Greenlandic sports minister worries ‘Trump is crazy’ They don’t fly the flag of Greenland at the Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee only recognises independent sovereign states, and, as all the world, even the most distant corners of the US, now knows,

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Manchester City v Fulham, Aston Villa v Brighton and more – Premier League clockwatch

Updates from Wednesday night’s action Latest scores | Any comments? Email Tim Oliver Glasner gives home debuts to two forwards – Jorgen Strand Larsen, bought from Wolves for a hefty sum, and Evan Guessand, borrowed from Villa. Crystal Palace (3-4-2-1) Henderson; Richards, Lacroix, Lerma; Munoz, Kamada, Wharton, Mitchell; Guessand, Sarr; Larsen. Subs: Benitez, Clyne, Riad,

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