MILAAN (ANP) - Jordan Stolz heeft enkele dagen voor de start van de Olympische Spelen in een trainingswedstrijd op de 1500 meter in het Milano Speed Skating Stadium een tijd van 1.44,26 geschaatst. De Amerikaanse topfavoriet ging niet voluit, maar schaatste als een van de weinigen met tempo door tot de finish en was blij met zijn tijd. "Ik denk dat het best een goede tijd is", reageerde de Amerikaan na afloop.
Stolz kon niet precies zeggen of hij op 80 of 90 procent had gereden. "Het was zeker niet op 100 procent", vulde hij aan. "Ik overlegde met mijn coach over de opening en de 700 meter, want ik ben in voorbereiding op de 1000 meter."
Dat is voor de Amerikaan de eerste afstand waarop hij in actie komt op woensdag 11 februari en de afstand waarop hij de wereldrecordhouder is. Hij start daarnaast op de 500 en 1500 meter en op de massastart. Tijdens een persconferentie eerder op de dag zei Stolz dat hij hoopte op alle vier de afstanden een medaille te halen.
AMSTELVEEN (ANP) - Directeur Edu Jansing van de tennisbond KNLTB gaat in gesprek met een aantal topspelers. Dat heeft hij tegen het ANP gezegd naar aanleiding van kritiek die Tallon Griekspoor heeft geuit in de richting van de bond. Dat deed de nummer 1 van Nederland in gesprek met NU.nl waarin hij aankondigde zich voorlopig niet meer beschikbaar te stellen voor de Davis Cup.
Het Nederlands Davis Cup-team is onder leiding van captain Paul Haarhuis in India waar kwalificaties worden gespeeld. Griekspoor en Botic van de Zandschulp zijn er niet bij. Griekspoor stelt tegen NU.nl dat "er niet wordt geluisterd naar de topspelers". "Er is geen plan, geen communicatie vanuit de bond. Welke rol heb ik dan nog in het Nederlandse team?", zo vraagt hij zich af.
Volgens Griekspoor is het verder "ongelooflijk" dat Jacco Eltingh als directeur sport zelden aanwezig is in het nationale trainingscentrum in Amstelveen. "En Haarhuis is als captain parttime in dienst bij de KNLTB. Dat kan niet als je omhoog wilt als tennisland, het is zó amateuristisch", aldus Griekspoor.
Eltingh en Haarhuis kunnen zich volgens de KNLTB niet vinden in de kritiek van Griekspoor.
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Dang. What are the odds?!
Twenty-seven-year-old food co-op cashier Alyssa Hendricks completely hit the jackpot with her rare combination of traits: She suffers from nearly every malady under the sun, but is also an absolute walking encyclopedia of natural remedies. Whenever a friend makes any mention of not feeling so hot, Alyssa will chime in with, “Colloidal silver completely cleared up my last ear infection,” or, “Dry needling was a complete game changer when I had frozen shoulder syndrome.” Yep, it seems like there isn’t a single thing that Alyssa can come down with (which she does quite often) that she doesn’t have some sort of natural cure at the ready for.
“Alyssa stayed with me when her apartment was being sprayed for bed bugs last summer,” said her coworker Sarah Martin. “She was only at my place for five days, but it was remarkable how many things went wrong with her that she was able to treat with her knowledge of alternative medicine. Candida, Lyme disease, nighttime anxiety …every time something popped up, she just so happened to know the best homeopathic or naturopathic way of treating it. How one person can both get sick with so many things and treat them successfully with alternative medicine is beyond me. It was incredible!”
Wow. Someone take this woman to Vegas, because she seems lucky as hell!
While Alyssa is still working on the right combination of herbal remedies to cure her long Covid, EMF sensitivity, and TMJ, her wealth of natural healing knowledge has cleared up dozens of ailments in the past month alone. Keep rubbing that rabbit’s foot, Alyssa, because you possess a truly remarkable amount of luck!
A photojournalist for the Icelandic daily newspaper Morgunblaðið for 44 years, Ragnar Axelsson is attuned to capturing the moments that tell a story. Mundane activities, impending tragedies, and tender connections between people and animals all figure prominently in his work and offer a portrait of life that comes from being embedded within a community.
Axelsson’s new book, Where the World is Melting, applies this journalistic rigor and sensibility to a personal project documenting the indelible impacts of a warming planet from Greenland to Siberia. In grainy black and white, snow-covered tundras and misty shorelines strikingly glimpse an environment in flux. One image in particular reveals a cloud of steam emanating from the melting Kötlujökull glacier in Iceland.
Where the World is Melting focuses on the aging farmers, sled teams, and Indigenous populations all grappling with both drastic changes to their homelands and the traditions they’ve practiced for generations. “What does the future hold for the reindeer herders living in the tundra? Nobody really knows,” Axelsson tells Blind. “A photograph is only a small piece in the jigsaw that makes up the big picture, but sometimes it is these small pieces that open our eyes to the broader reality.”
Available through Kehrer Verlag, Where the World is Melting accompanies an exhibition of Axelsson’s photos on view through May 26, 2029, at the Ernst Leitz Museum in Wetzlar, Germany. Find more of his work on Instagram.
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