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Joel Embiid being drawn into a new team?

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GT Joel Embiid #21 of the Philadelphia 76ers reacts to Jimmy Butler #22 of the Miami Heat after making a basket and being fouled in the second half during Game Three of the 2022 NBA Conference Semifinals. There are very few players around the NBA who exemplify a franchise as Joel Embiid of Philadelphia 76ers do. The man dubbed “The Process” has seen an insane amount of organizational rotation in the eight seasons since it was drafted. Through all the injury issues, General Motors burner accountsand a shocking postseason exit,…

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Eliud Kipchoge breaks his own world record in the Berlin Marathon, 2:01:09

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Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge broke the world record again. Kipchoge clocked 2:01:09 to break his own world record and win the Berlin Marathon on Sunday. He shaved 30 seconds off his previous personal best of 2:01:39 set in Berlin in 2018. “There are boundaries to be broken. By you and me together,” Kipchoge chirp After the marathon. “I can say that I am very happy today because the official world record is faster again. Thank you to all the runners in the world who inspire me every day to push myself.”…

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NBC has the worst Olympic rankings ever with the Beijing 2022 Games

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The Beijing Winter Games had the lowest rate in Olympic history since NBC Universal began broadcasting the event decades ago. Broadcast via Comcast’s NBCU’s NBCU streaming, cable and live streaming platforms, the company said Tuesday that the Winter Olympics drew an average of 11.4 million prime-time viewers over two and a half weeks. That’s a 42% drop from the disastrously low-rated Pyeongchang Olympics in 2018, which had the lowest viewership to that point. “This was probably the toughest Olympics ever,” NBC Sports Chairman Pete Bevacqua told The Wall Street Journal.…

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Goodbye to the Olympic Games that caught everyone cold

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Register here To get beyond the back page delivered to your inbox every morning of the week. Of course, Olympians will remember these games completely differently. There will be no star signs in Erin Jackson’s mind when the first-ever black woman to win the women’s 500m speed skating race looks at her gold medal. When 76-year-old Lindsey Jacobless and Nick Baumgartner look at the evidence that the oldest duo to compete in mixed team skiing is back home, they’ll have no stopping. .

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Jesse Diggins wins the 2022 Silver Day at the 2022 Olympics after food poisoning

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ZANGJIAKO, CHINA – The great Norwegian Therese Johaug won her third gold medal at the Beijing Olympics on Sunday and Jesse Diggins took the silver for the best American result in an individual cross-country skiing event since 1976. In the face of high winds and harsh temperatures, Johaug took an early lead in the 30km group start race and went on to win in 1 hour 24 minutes 54 seconds. Johaug also won the ski race – the first gold medal in the Olympics – and the 10km classic. “I…

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Taiwan PM wants to punish skater for China suit

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Taipei, Taiwan – The Taiwanese prime minister wants to punish a Taiwanese Olympic speed skater for wearing what appears to be a suit from the Chinese team during training. Symbols on both sides are particularly sensitive at a time when China’s ruling Communist Party, which claims Taiwan is part of its territory even though the island has long worked with its government, is trying to intimidate democracy by flying fighter jets and bombers nearby. . Huang Yu-ting, one of four Taiwanese athletes at the Winter Games, posted a video on…

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Beijing Olympics concludes with athletes celebrating the conclusion

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Olympic athletes on Sunday marched to the stadium for the closing ceremony and farewell to the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing. The event, held at Bird’s Nest Stadium, featured athletes still in Beijing after competing in the Winter Games. Like the opening ceremony, it was presided over by director Zhang Yimou, who designed a performance of dancers with tiny glowing snowflakes traveling through the stadium. There was a modest crowd of invited guests shaking hands with clappers and waving. This year’s Beijing Games moved ahead despite concerns about the spread…

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Michaela Shiffrin, 4th in the US in the mixed skating teams event

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Michaela Shiffrin and the US mixed ski team lost a medal by 0.42 seconds, losing the bronze in the final alpine skiing event at the Beijing Olympics. The seeded Austrians won the gold at the second Winter Games for the mixed-team parallel event, postponing Germany in the final. The United States primarily used Shiffrin in the slower than parallel tournaments, and lost three of their four qualifiers, including the bronze match against Norway. Teammate River Radamos grabbed the victory the United States needed in the final playoffs to force a…

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The US hockey team is the subject of a noise complaint

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The US hockey team made a fuss in Beijing after all – not just on the ice. The Associated Press reports that team members were part of a late-night party at the Olympic Athletes Village that led to a noise complaint and a conversation between the US Olympic Committee, Paralympics, and USA Hockey. There was no property damage, unlike the 1998 Nagano Olympics when American NHL hockey players caused $3,000 in damage. The US men’s hockey team, which lost in the quarter-finals, was subjected to a noise complaint. AFP via…

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Ilana Myers Taylor, Sylvia Hoffman won bronze in sledding for two women

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American duo Ilana Myers-Taylor and Sylvia Hoffman won the bronze medal in the women’s sledge event in Beijing on Saturday night. The duo was signed in at 4:05.48, with the duo finishing behind only two German sleds. It’s the second medal for Myers Taylor, 37, at the Olympics, who broke her own record for the oldest American woman to medal at the Winter Olympics by five days. It is also the fifth Olympic medal in her career. Ilana Myers Taylor and Sylvia Hoffman won the bronze medal in the two-woman…

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