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It’s official. Superstar gymnast Simone Biles is headed back to the global stage after topping the all-around standings Tuesday (19 September 2023) at the U.S. Women’s World Championships Selection Event, in Katy, Texas. She earned an all-around total of 55.700, ahead of Shilese Jones’ 55.300.
The stars of U.S. women’s gymnastics including Olympic gold medallists medallist Simone Biles and Jade Carey are assembling this week in Katy, Texas, outside Houston, for the 2023 U.S. Women’s World Selection Event, 19-20 September 2023. The two-day competition will be used to determine the squad that will go for a record-extending seventh global title […]
The opinions of this author do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SwimSwam Hopefully, this will be the last article on the subject as all of our collective attention swings from the results of U.S. Nationals to the upcoming World Championships. The honest truth of the matter is that this meet (the 2023 Summer Nationals […]
PRESS STATEMENT ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE NOVEMBER 2, 2022 We welcome the decision by the Government of Poland to select Westinghouse as its technology partner for the construction of three U.S.-designed nuclear reactors. This agreement will ensure a decades-long strategic energy partnership between the United States and Poland and is a watershed moment […]
The Ironman Kona World Championships return after a three-year hiatus with a new format, live on Peacock on Thursday and Saturday at 12 p.m. ET. The Ironman, held annually in Hawaii since 1978, and in Kailua-Kona since 1981, was not held in 2020 or 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The world championships made a […]
After he gave up the gridiron for the ice, Shaquille Murray-Lawrence says his dream to compete for Canada at this year’s Beijing Olympics was thwarted by systemic discrimination within Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton. “I gave this sport everything that I had. I gave my country everything I had. I gave the organization everything I had. I […]
As the current UFC vice president of athlete development, not to mention a frequent public representative of the organization in the Las Vegas community, Forrest Griffin is a busy man. Still, the opportunity to help continue developing the sport of mixed martial arts in the U.S. at the grassroots level proved impossible for him to […]
Ketanji Brown Jackson closed her remarks at the White House ceremony for her Supreme Court nomination by paying tribute to Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman federal judge in U.S. history. Jackson, 51, who would make history as the Supreme Court’s first Black woman justice, noted she and Motley share a coincidental connection: They […]
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A dispute over whether Black people were stricken from the jury pool because of their race has disrupted seating a final jury in the trial over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. Attorneys narrowed a pool of 48 people to 12 final jurors Wednesday. Minutes after they did, prosecutor Linda Dunikoski announced […]
Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was shot and killed while out jogging on February 23, 2020, near Brunswick. It wasn’t until a cell phone video of the incident surfaced more than two months later that arrests in the case were made. “I’m just praying to God we get the right jury,” Arbery Sr. said Wednesday on CNN’s […]