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The #Greek #Illyrian #genders. Ancient Illyria first founder by the Greek #Illyrios, son of Kadmus & Harmony, founder of Thebes the first Ilyrian king.

Recorded by ancient writings, coins, archaeological finds.

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The most discoveries of the archaeological field, are in northern ancient Illyria, Slovenia, Serbia etc. Illyrians
from the many Greek races, took part in the #Olympic
#Games, such as Tethrippon Epidamnos (Illyria),
Cleosthenes
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SHOCKING ⚠️
I just learned the reason for the baffling 🇨🇦silence at outcome of TOTALLY UNFAIR outcome of the 2016 #Olympics 800m women’s podium that featured three MALE winners, leaving #Canada’s #MelissaBishop in 4th place instead of winning 🥇 GOLD as she deserved:
A lawyer from @TeamCanada threatened #Canadian head coach @Head1Coach as follows:
“I was threatened by COC lawyers in 2016 not to speak up. If I said something I was told that I was going to be banned for life from sport.”

I do have his blessing to post this for the first time in public.

#UNSPORTING
#UNETHICAL

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The injustice to one of our own female athletes from #Canada 🇨🇦 is breathtaking.
Our own country’s leadership would rather sellout to a cult rather than to defend one of our champions - even at the expense of waving GOODBYE to #Olympic Gold!! 🥇
Sacrificing a woman and her entire career on the alter of #GenderIdeology .
Just let that sink in. 🤯

This is on you @WorldAthletics !!
Shame on all of you.

#Disappointing
#Absurd
#Unsporting
We need both @WorldAthletics and the @iocmedia to restore justice to Canada’s #MelissaBishop immediately!
You can still do the right thing and give her the gold retrospectively like you do for doping cases.
Getting a medal in the mail isn’t great but at least it’s something.

#WorldAthletics
#OlympicGames

#GoldToMelissa 🥇

And the other medals to the deserving women.
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From #Poland Poland 🇵🇱 & #GreatBritain 🇬🇧Image
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Oh, that "apolitical", "neutral" #Russian sport. Here's one of top #Russian skaters Plushenko, holding #Olympic medals. "Coincidentally", he is also part of the #Russian army. Oops.
Is that ok with you, @iocmedia?
#RussianWarCrimes
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And more "apolitical", neutral #Russian sportsmen for you. Alexei Nemov Image
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🎯Day -17 on SQL Questions Series📓

▶️Today I Solved the #Olympic Gold Medal
Problem

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Q17 ) In problem where we need to find player with no of gold medals won by them only for players who won only gold medals.?
📓Code Snippets :
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I did a 🧵below on the #Whytereview - the review is extensive and I highlight some key statistics within the review.
Here I shall do a🧵on how we got to this point.
Please note - I am not a gymnast and this is not an exhaustive list because its Twitter.
In 2020 the Netflix documentary "Athlete A" highlights the legal proceedings against Larry Nassar and the various bodies who knew the abuse was taking place. The brave women who spoke out are currently in process of suing FBI.
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Following "Athlete A" and HBO documentary "At the Heart of Gold" (2019) gymnasts in other nations began speaking out publicly to the press in numbers too big to ignore.
This widespread publicity of athlete abuse is ongoing in GB, Australia and Canada to name a few.
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@taralipinski + @JohnnyGWeir: the way you both demonized the Russian child skater -- she is 15 years old -- is crass bullying. Take out your rage & outrage on the Putin Machine, not this child? You both should reach out to her, apologize & offer support. You should be ashamed.
@taralipinski + @JohnnyGWeir Have you actually heard of Vladimir Putin? I bet Valieva & her family will be punished in some way. You should be there for them instead of maximizing your public clout in misplaced outrage at a child. She's not in charge. You are adults! For shame.
@taralipinski @JohnnyGWeir I mean let me just close this loop by saying: Do you really believe that any 15-year-old Russian Olympic athlete is in charge of their own drug regimen? Do you really believe that the Russian #Olympic Machine that forced the games to allow them would take even one chance on that?
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🚨 LIVE: From robots to hazmat suits, ask @amytennery questions about the #Olympics bubble redd.it/st63mj
Q: What’s the best thing about being in the bubble and what’s the worst thing?

A: The best part is getting to meet a lot of the colleagues that I talk to online but rarely get to see in person.

Join our Reddit AMA on the #Beijing2020 closed loop → redd.it/st63mj
Q: Are there any restrictions regarding what is and what is not allowed to be reported?

A: I haven’t been given any restrictions on what I’m allowed to report.

@amytennery answers your questions from the #Beijing2020 closed loop → redd.it/st63mj
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“The gate to the groin for Yannick Bertrand and you could hear it. And if you’re a man, you could feel it…The boys took a beating on that one” #Olympics2022 #WinterOlympics #Olympics #OlympicGames
I’m finding the #WinterOlympics painful to watch

It isn’t just men’s genitalia getting pummelled, it’s women’s too

For matters of good taste, I’m not going to post the clip of the couple’s figure skating, but instead leave it to Robin Williams to explain
The #WinterOlympics can also lead to injury when viewers decide to give sports a go in their own homes

Inspired by the #Olympic figure skating, this kid ended up with a blister on the sole of his foot the size of a golf ball.
(Video via @DoggerlandMan)
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After a weekend of mass #Covid testing in #Beijing, there is a lot more today. Whole housing communities are being told to be tested, in some cases twice in two days. Officials at one compound told me this was not because of infected residents but as a precaution. #China
Some context: #Beijing’s Games in 2022 compared to the atmosphere in 2008. #China. “Two Olympics and two very different Chinas” bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
You can see from the video above that there is a very high proportion of people wearing masks in #Beijing, even outdoors (in the case of this clip, 100% of people). #China
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Big day for Singapore sports! BWF World Championships final day is underway and one of its own - Loh Kean Yew - is in the men's singles final. He plays India's Kidambi Srikanth for the world title and a huge slice of history. Match expected to start 10pm. straitstimes.com/sport/badminto…
The finals will be broadcast on StarHub Ch 201, and you can also follow our live updates here where we bring you all you need to know about Kean Yew and his road to the #BWFWorldChampionships2021 final
Our team are also at watch parties in Penang (with Kean Yew's parents and second brother Kean Wei), and Ang Mo Kio (with his third brother and national doubles player Kean Hean and friends) to follow and support him 💪🏽🏸️🏆
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1. Tomorrow on radio I will share the letters exchanged between me and the prime minister of Pakistan. In the hour of desperate need I reached out in the hopes that some sort of leadership could be found to help us do the impossible. @ImranKhanPTI Con’t
2. We reached out and asked numerous leaders in political and civil society around the world for help. The silence was shocking as was the outpouring help on a humanitarian basis. Some calls and requests received a simple yes or no, some went unanswered but …. CON’T
3. we received an immediate response to our requests from Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan who then acted on his willingness to assist.Collectively, we transcended religious differences, political divides, national boundaries and local dynamics - it was about a humanitarian
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Raksha Mantri @rajnathsingh inaugurates stadium in Pune named after #Olympics #gold medal winner @Neeraj_chopra1
Relationship between defence and games is not recent

The relation is as old as human civilization

What we call 'sports' today began with the idea of self-defence

-@rajnathsingh
I am proud that Subedar @Neeraj_chopra1 has added his name to list of great sportspersons like Major Dhyan Chand, Capt. Milkha Singh, Col Rajyavardhan SRathore and Captain Vijay Kumar

etched his name in golden letters

#IndianArmy is carrying forward the leagacy

-@rajnathsingh
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1/🧵 Elite Black Swimmers are taking a wonderful place in Sports History!
 
When I was a boy, we had no Black swimmers on my AAU team. At 2015 NCAA’s, 3 Black women stood on the podium in the 100 free: Simone Manuel, Lia Neal & Natalie Hinds.
 
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2/ The #Olympic 4x100 free relay had 2 of those women (@swimone & Natalie) on the podium wearing bronze in Tokyo. Natialie came back after quitting swimming & hough Simone was not in top 6 at trials, coaches put her in finals & she had the fastest split!

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3/ About that historic 2015 NCAA’s, Maritza McClendon said of Manuel, Neal & Hinds🥇sweep: "A tear instantly came to my eyes, I couldn’t believe it. This is a true moment in history for minorities. 3 women of color take 1,2, 3 in the 100 free!”
@GDavid01

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#IndependenceDayIndia

PM @narendramodi to address the Nation from the Red Fort, in a few minutes

Join the #IndependenceDay celebrations LIVE

LIVE From⏰6:30 AM

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@airnews_mumbai @DDNewsHindi @ddsahyadrinews @MIB_India @AmritMahotsav
📡Live Now 📡

PM @narendramodi to unfurl the tri-colour 🇮🇳 of India and address the nation from Red Fort, in a few minutes

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📡Join live 📡

India is celebrating 75th #IndependenceDay

Watch the celebrations live from the Red Fort

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#IndiaAt75
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#Cheer4India

@IndiaSports to Felicitate #Tokyo2020 medal winners today at⏰6:30 PM

Join Live
#Olympics
📡Live Now📡

Union Ministers @ianuragthakur, @KirenRijiju and @NisithPramanik to felicitate #Tokyo2020 medal winners in a few minutes

Watch

#Olympics
#Cheer4India
#TeamIndia

Union Ministers @ianuragthakur, @KirenRijiju and @NisithPramanik to felicitate #Tokyo2020 medal winners in a few minutes

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🔴 Day 9 of #Tokyo2020 and the medals keep coming for #TeamGB!

Here is everything that happened overnight #Olympics 👇👇

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#TeamGB currently hold 31 medals on day nine of #Tokyo2020 and there's still plenty of opportunities to secure more medals

🥇 - 9⃣
🥈 - 1⃣0⃣
🥉 - 1⃣2⃣

🔎 Use our interactive tool to search full results by events and countries

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#OlympicGames medal tally; which country leads the ranking?

6th place - #TeamGB

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Day6⃣

#TeamGB are going for medals in rowing, swimming and shooting this morning at #Tokyo2020 – and the men's golf has also teed off

Follow the updates in our live blog 👇

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#TeamGB's Helen Glover is going for her third straight gold in the women's coxless pairs 🚣‍♀️

The race is about to begin - follow it in our live blog 👇 #Tokyo2020

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Agony for #TeamGB as Emily Craig and Imogen Grant miss out on a bronze medal by 0.01 seconds in a photo finish #Tokyo2020

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The delivery of Bermuda's first ever Olympic gold medal on Tuesday by triathlete Flora Duffy is a victory shared by the whole island, her parents told AFP
#AFPSports
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"It was just unbelievable": Family and friends of Bermuda's first Olympic gold medalist celebrate.

Triathlete Flora Duffy made history as the first person from Bermuda to win gold at the #Olympics
Olympic golds.

Romania's Ancuta Bodnar and Simona Radis and France's Hugo Boucheron and Matthieu Androdias celebrate winning gold in the double sculls finals at the Tokyo #Olympics ImageImage
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Main highlights of Day 4 at #Tokyo2020
🏅 Osaka crashes out of tennis competition
🏅 Ferreira and Moore win inaugural surfing golds
🏅 Triathlete Duffy scoops famous gold for Bermuda
🏅 McKeown upstages Smith in women's 100m backstroke
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#BREAKING Simone Biles out of US team during Olympic final
#UPDATE Biles, the four-time gold medallist at the 2016 Rio Games, produced a lacklustre opening vault and then briefly left the competition floor, before she was replaced in the three concluding routines on the uneven bars, beam, and floor
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1/ We initially launched #WeHaveHerBack to call newsrooms out on the problematic media rhetoric around women candidates in the 2020 election. And after weeks of bad coverage around the Olympics, we are reminded of why we started this campaign.
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2/ It only takes a quick headline search about women in leadership to see that we still have a long way to go.

We believe ALL women leaders across industries deserve to be treated equitably, which includes the way the media engages with and covers their work.
3/ Whether journalists are covering @itskerrii, @naomiosaka, #MeghanMarkle, or #BreonnaTaylor, they have a responsibility to make sure that stories about impacted women are told in ways that are fair and equitable and that mitigate harm...not intensify it.
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Webinar on '#Olympic Games in the time of #COVID19 : Challenges and Opportunities for Indian Players'

🗓️ Today at 🕚11 AM

Join us

#Cheer4India #Tokyo2020
Webinar on '#Olympic Games in the time of #COVID19 : Challenges and Opportunities for Indian Players'

Live Now
@YASMinistry Minister Shri @ianuragthakur has appealed to us to tag 5 friends/family members to show support for the #TeamIndia

#HumaraVictoryPunch #Cheer4India
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The United States will send the second-largest team in its history to compete at #Tokyo2020 #Olympics this month with women athletes making up more than half of the delegation for a third straight Summer Games

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Activist athletes ready to test Olympic rule book.

Fifty-three years after Tommie Smith and John Carlos's iconic medal podium protest in Mexico City, a new generation of activist athletes is poised to take centre-stage at #Tokyo2020

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A greener Games?

Initiatives include recyclable cardboard beds, using electricity from renewable sources and minimising waste - but like all big global events, #Tokyo2020 will leave an inevitable imprint on the planet

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Documenting the #Olympics & #Paralympics Day 1 kicking off now withba welcome from @IanCooke13 from @britishlibrary #ResearchingTheGames
The @britishlibrary has a wide variety of resources related to #SportsHistory including the @UKWebArchive & @NetPreserve #WebArchive collections. Read more about our #WebArchiving sports collections here blogs.bl.uk/webarchive/202… #ResearchingTheGames
First speaker in the academic panel chaired by @hdichter is @drljharris presenting his research on Britain & the Olympic Games from 1908-1920 #ResearchingTheGames
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Tokyo 2020's turbulent #Olympic timeline.

With one month until the opening ceremony on July 23, @AFP chronicles Tokyo's troubled journey to the Games

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#Tokyo2020
Troubled Tokyo #Olympics near finish line with one month to go.

#Tokyo2020 has weathered a historic postponement, an unprecedented ban on overseas fans and persistent domestic opposition, but with one month to go, the finish line is finally in sight

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Arenas of gold: Tokyo venues ready to forge Olympic dreams

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