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After a national scandal in Norway involving two athletes, Norwegian fans at these Winter Games don’t enjoy becoming a punchline
Yes, it’s time to talk about the ski jumpers’ penises. Although to be honest the ski jumpers themselves would prefer it if everyone could keep the conversation to their testicles. Figuratively. “This sport,” the former Olympic champion Sven Hannawald once said, “has a lot to do with balls.”
This turns out to be more true than you might imagine, even for a sport that involves flying 100m down a mountain. As the world now knows, being well endowed is a distinct advantage for the simple key reason that when a jumper spreads their legs the crotch of their trousers stretches out into a wing, and the bigger that wing is, the further they’re likely to fly.
Continue reading...PM survives day of high tension after Scots Labour leader Anas Sarwar urges him to step down amid Peter Mandelson row
How the Downing Street machine ensured Starmer survived to fight another day
Exclusive: Top civil servant could become third key No 10 departure in days
Keir Starmer has seen off an immediate challenge to his position from Labour’s leader in Scotland, telling his MPs he was “not prepared to walk away” from power and plunge the country into chaos.
But the prime minister emerged badly damaged from a tumultuous 24 hours which brought his premiership to the brink, leaving his party united for now but fearful of what the coming days and weeks will bring.
Continue reading...Freeskier was ambivalent about representing US
Fellow athletes defend friend after president’s attack
Chloe Kim and Eileen Gu have weighed in on Donald Trump’s attack on Hunter Hess after the freeskier said he was ambivalent about representing the US during the president’s immigration crackdown.
“I think in moments like these, it is really important for us to unite and kind of stand up for one another for all that’s going on,” said Kim, the two-time Olympic gold medalist whose parents are South Korean immigrants and who has faced racism throughout her career.
Continue reading...RFU trying to tackle antisocial behaviour after games
Borthwick to keep changes to minimum against Scots
Unruly spectators at Twickenham felt the force of a crackdown on antisocial behaviour at the match between England and Wales last Saturday, with Richmond council issuing 24 fixed-penalty notices for public urination, the Guardian can reveal.
The Rugby Football Union is trying to persuade local residents to ditch their opposition to proposals to increase the number of concerts held every year from three to 15. Much of the opposition centres around antisocial behaviour experienced during England matches and, as revealed by the Guardian, the RFU hosted a drop-in event for residents in an effort to convince them that their concerns were being taken seriously.
Continue reading...Airlines from as far away as Russia, China and Spain have also been affected as island nation warns of fuel shortage
Air Canada has cancelled all flights to Cuba after the island’s authorities said they were running out of aviation fuel, as a consequence of the US oil blockade on the Caribbean country.
The airline, one of a dozen who serve the island, said it would begin repatriating 3,000 customers. Cuba’s beaches are a major holiday draw for Canadian tourists in winter, and one of the government’s most important sources of hard currency.
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Aston Martin have become the final F1 team to host their launch event for 2026.
Aston Martin have given fans a first glimpse of the livery that will feature on the AMR26.
And people make bad information worse by failing to provide chatbots with the right details
Healthcare researchers have found that AI chatbots could put patients at risk by giving shoddy medical advice.…
Although you might be able to wiggle out if its AI age-inference model decides you’re an adult
Don't want Discord to start treating your account like it belongs to an underage kid? Then you'd better be willing to fork over some PII – just months after the company's age verification partner had such data stolen. …
The romance genre -- long the publishing industry's earliest adopter of technological shifts, from e-books to self-publishing to serial releases -- has become the front line for AI-generated fiction, and the results as you can imagine are messy. Coral Hart, a Cape Town-based novelist previously published by Harlequin and Mills & Boon, produced more than 200 AI-assisted romance novels last year and self-published them on Amazon, where they collectively sold around 50,000 copies. She found Anthropic's Claude delivered the most elegant prose but was terrible at sexy banter; other programs like Grok and NovelAI wrote graphic scenes that felt rushed and mechanical. Chatbots struggled broadly to build the slow-burn sexual tension romance readers crave, she said.
A BookBub survey of more than 1,200 authors found roughly a third were using generative AI for plotting, outlining, or writing, and the majority did not disclose this to readers. Romance accounts for more than 20% of all adult fiction print sales, according to Circana BookScan, and the genre's reliance on familiar tropes and narrative formulas makes it especially susceptible to AI disruption.
A BookBub survey of more than 1,200 authors found roughly a third were using generative AI for plotting, outlining, or writing, and the majority did not disclose this to readers. Romance accounts for more than 20% of all adult fiction print sales, according to Circana BookScan, and the genre's reliance on familiar tropes and narrative formulas makes it especially susceptible to AI disruption.
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MILAAN (ANP) - Jutta Leerdam voelde de tranen opkomen nadat ze op de Olympische Spelen in Milaan de 1000 meter had gewonnen. "Je werkt ergens naartoe en dan is dat klaar en dan heb je ook nog die medaille om je nek. Dat is een superbijzonder moment", zei ze terwijl ze met haar gouden medaille om veel media te woord stond.
De 27-jarige schaatsster vindt dat ze aan zichzelf heeft bewezen dat ze mentaal ijzersterk is. "Ik denk dat ik nog nooit zo veel druk heb gevoeld. Maar onder druk gaat het wel beter."
Leerdam zag kort voordat ze zelf moest rijden dat landgenote Femke Kok met 1.12,59 een ijzersterke tijd had gereden. "Misschien dat dat zelfs iets minder druk gaf. Als dat de snelste tijd is en ik kan niet harder, dan is dat wat het is. Het enige wat ik kon doen is goed schaatsen en dat heeft geresulteerd in iets supermoois", zei ze over haar winnende tijd van 1.12,31.
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Haar coach Kosta Poltavets sprak van een kunstwerkje. Zelf vond Leerdam het in ieder geval haar beste 1000 meter ooit, al zaten er volgens haar nog een paar foutjes in. "Het is wel bijzonder. Hij zei tegen mij: 1.12 in Milaan. Ik dacht eerst: ik weet helemaal niet hoe snel het hier is. En dan rij ik 1.12,31. Hij geloofde in mij en ik in hem. Dat heeft goed uitgepakt."
Leerdam zag dat haar tijd groen was toen ze over de finishlijn kwam en ze dus sneller was dan Kok. "Dat was zo onbeschrijfelijk. Ik kon het even niet geloven. Een paar minuten later realiseerde ik het me, maar het moet ook nog bezinken."
Veel verder in de toekomst wilde Leerdam enkele uren na haar gouden medaille nog niet kijken. "Daar ben ik nog even niet mee bezig. Eerst even beseffen dat ik olympisch kampioen ben en ik heb ook nog een 500 meter."
Jutta Leerdam koos een individuele route, voelde zich onbegrepen, maar zegevierde op de 1.000 meter met een magistrale rit. „Ik denk dat als ze deze medaille zien, ze het wel begrijpen”.
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Op een woning aan de Brasem in Ridderkerk is maandagavond geschoten. Hierbij raakte niemand gewond. De politie heeft een kogelhuls gevonden in de straat en doet verder onderzoek.
