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Hindustan Times
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Princess Iman Pahlavi ties the knot in Paris. First pics from dreamy wedding
Iman Pahlavi, granddaughter of the last Shah of Iran, has tied the knot in Paris. Iman married her United States-based boyfriend Bradley Sherman in a dreamy wedding in the French capital, according to a report in English-language Iranian news website Kayhan Life. The couple had formally registered their marriage at the Manhattan Marriage Registry Office in New York last month. Their court marriage was attended only by close family members, including Iman's father Reza Pahlavi, the former Crown Prince of Iran. Following the intimate celebration in New York, Iman and Bradley hosted a lavish wedding for friends and family members in Paris. For her big day, the bride wore a lacy white wedding gown from designer Elie Saab. First photographs from the celebration – which included a gigantic cake – began to surface on social media yesterday. Iman shared them on her Instagram Stories. Iman Pahlavi is the second daughter of Iran's former Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi and Yasmine Pahlavi. She was born in Washington DC in 1993. A US-raised royal, she attended Bullis School in Maryland and earned a BA in Psychology and Communications from the University of Michigan in 2015. Iman is the granddaughter of Iran's last monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who ruled until 1979, when the Iranian Revolution led to his overthrow, the abolition of the monarchy, and the establishment of the Islamic Republic. After being overthrown, the Shah travelled to several countries before eventually arriving in the United States. She is the daughter of the eldest son of the Shah, Reza Pahlavi, who was named crown prince upon his birth. According to the report in Kayhan Life, Iman and Bradley met through mutual friends in 2017. The couple announced their engagement in 2023, after Bradley went down on one knee for a romantic beach proposal. A post shared by Iman Pahlavi (@imanp) Iman Pahlavi currently works as a Senior Manager with American Express in New York. Details about the groom are scarce - but Tatler, quoting Vanity Fair Spain, said that he is employed by an e-commerce company. (Also read: Princess Aisha of Jordan marries Georgetown University graduate in lavish palace wedding)
Forbes
26-04-2025
- Sport
- Forbes
Penn Relays Recap: Quincy Wilson Drops 43.99 Split, Nathan Green Anchors Distance Double, Plus More
PHILADELPHIA—The most historic track and field meet in America had no shortage of epic performances this weekend. From superb finishes in collegiate races, to high school stars taking flight, to Olympians and professionals battling at the wire, we take a look at the top five moments from the 129th Penn Relays Carnival over three days at Franklin Field. In March, one of the NCAA's coolest streaks snapped. It was during the NCAA Indoor Championships in Virginia Beach that the University of Washington men were unable to secure a record sixth-straight mile or 1,500 meter title defense. The Huskies, however, were agonizingly close—in fact, they settled for second when senior Nathan Green, the 2023 winner of the NCAA outdoor 1,500 meter title, was the runner-up. While the performance was another reminder of Green's consistency—the Idaho native has now made eight NCAA Championships over his four years with the program—it probably also left a sour taste in his mouth. So maybe Green entered the Penn Relays this weekend at Franklin Field with something to prove. He certainly left with the best possible result. Anchoring both the Huskies' Championship of America distance medley relay and the 4xmile relay, Green was cool, collected, and downright dominant. The Washington senior hunted down the University of Oregon's Rheinhardt Harrison and Texas A&M's Cooper Cawthra in the DMR en route to a 3:55.15 finish over 1,600 meters to win in 9:25.22 on Friday. A day later, he rallied from fourth to first as he slingshotted past NCAA 3K champion Ethan Strand over the final curve to secure another win in 16:24.61. Quincy Wilson's performance in the Championship of America high school boys 4x400 final will be remembered for a long time. In fact, it might exit as the single-best moment from the 2025 Penn Relays. But the result was bittersweet: Wilson's epic 43.99-second 400 meter split wasn't enough to give the Bullis School boys the victory. Instead, the Kingston College boys won for the fourth consecutive year, finishing the race in 3:05.93. Bullis School's herculean effort, meanwhile, was a new high school national record in 3:06.31, surpassing a national mark that had stood for 40 years when Hawthorne (CA) ran 3:07.40 in 1985. And that wasn't a bad consolation. There's no doubt Wilson's performance was simply remarkable. Finding himself in fourth-place on the final hand-off, the 17-year-old paced his way through the first curve and then unloaded on the backstretch, passing Excelsior (JAM) and Calabar (JAM) on his way to a second-place finish. A year earlier, he had run the fastest high school split ever recorded at the Penn Relays in 44.37. On Friday, he shattered it. With one more year to chase after a 4x400 win in the COA–an American team hasn't won since 2007–Wilson will have one last shot to bring Bullis to history. Shane Cohen has a history with late-race theatrics. In the NCAA 800 meter final in 2024, he chased down the field to win a national title. A few weeks later, at the U.S. Olympic Trials, he chased a series of fields down again and reached the U.S. final, but failed to qualify for the Olympic team. On Saturday, it was the same story. Only Cohen was off by just a smidge. Robert Farken, the three-time German champion and Olympian at 1,500 meters, held off the former University of Virginia standout by a hair, with the On Athletics Club athlete claiming a new Penn Relays record in 1:45.45. Cohen, meanwhile, went under the former mark in 1:45.76. While Farken and Cohen weren't really in the picture after the first lap—in fifth and seventh after 400 meters—their balanced work over the final lap proved to be decisive. Cohen actually held the best line, negative-splitting over the second lap in 52.77. Farken held him off over the final straightaway with a split of 53.07. The race was another personal best for Farken, while Cohen notched his best time over the 2025 season. No records were broken in the women's distance medley relay on Friday. Maybe just hearts. In the final lap, Virginia's Margot Appleton ate up Providence's Kimberley May over the final meters to secure the Cavaliers win in 10:42.16, leaving the Friars with their second straight second-place finish in the event. It was a big move and a stellar finish from Appleton, a 4:25.03 miler and school record-holder in the mille who managed to take the Hoos' from fifth to first over the final 1,600 meter frames, passing Georgetown, Clemson and Penn State en route to the title. One of the best traditions of the Penn Relays is its annual invitation to the top Jamaican high schools. You can see and hear that culture in the stands, from the high-pitched sounds of the vuvuzelas, to the long, drawn-out cheers from Jamaican fans. Outside the stadium, Caribbean vendors hoist and sell delicious meets from food trucks. The fans travel in from everywhere: From the nearby communities over the tristate area of Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, to the country of Jamaica itself. And it's that tradition which has kept the Penn Relays alive and kicking for so many years. On Saturday, a Jamaican high school closed the meet in spectacular fashion. Never trailing, but sensing the Bullis School breathing down its neck, the Hydel girls of Jamaica claimed a new Penn Relays record in the girls Championship of America 4x400, winning in 3:30.42 as they ran away from the Maryland school by three seconds. The victory was Hydel's fourth straight and its sixth over the last seven seasons. Globally, that time is also the 35th-fastest of 2025.
Forbes
23-04-2025
- Sport
- Forbes
Behind Quincy Wilson's Success Is An Unparalleled Drive For More
PHILADELPHIA—When Quincy Wilson sees a gap, insurmountable or not, his brain often tries to calculate the solution. Take last year, for example. Facing what seemed like impossible odds in the preliminaries of the Championship of America high school 4x400 at the Penn Relays, the teenager took the final hand-off and passed not one but five athletes on his way to a can-you-believe-it 44.37-second split, anchoring the Potomac, Maryland-based Bullis School to a spot in the finals. When it happened again a race later, his teammate this time falling on the second exchange, Wilson pulled out another 44-second split and willed his team to third-place. The experience felt supernatural to anyone who witnessed it in the stands—and no less because it came from a 16-year-old. But afterward, Wilson just kept flying higher and higher, first securing a world U18 record for 400 meters, to then being selected for the U.S. team headed to Paris, to next winning an Olympic gold medal in the Olympics. To Wilson, that can-do-attitude was simply a part of his makeup. 'I've always just tried to be the last one standing,' Wilson told me recently. 'I try to be the last one standing. Once I find the tactic, I just think to myself, 'If I can beat him on this leg, I'm going to stick to it.'' You can thank his family for that, because it was them who instilled the belief that he can do anything he puts his mind to, whether it's running 44 seconds in the 400 meters, to engineering designs in the classroom, to even winning board games at home. In fact, Wilson says that indefatigable spirit was partially born out of long Monopoly sessions growing up. 'After a while,' he said, 'I started to win because I stayed up.' This weekend, the now 17-year-old Wilson heads back to the Penn Relays a completely different athlete than he was a year ago, but with no less quit. And maybe this time he'll even get the redemption he covets in the 4x400. Maybe what's so unique about Wilson is that he doesn't look like a 400 meter superstar. Standing maybe just a shade over 5-foot-9, he doesn't tower over you. He's got a big smile and that Generation Z vibe, maybe a freshly cut fade every three to four weeks. You might find him wearing a bucket hat on a hot day. He also might be the next great American quarter-miler. Michael Johnson's 400 meter U.S. (and former world) record of 43.18 has stood since 1999. Will Wilson work his way up to it? Right now, his all-time best of 44.20 is No. 24 in U.S. history. It's a World U18 record and about four-tenths shy of the World U20 record of 43.87 seconds, which was achieved by American Steve Lewis in 1991. In June, Wilson finished sixth in the U.S. Olympic Trials at the tender age of 16. To do that, he ran under 45 seconds over three straight rounds. He ran his first sub-46 race two years earlier at the age of 15. And he's been going viral since he was an eighth-grader operating out of Chesapeake, Virginia. 'I feel like (my success) did come at a fast pace,' Wilson said, 'going straight from middle school, when I had that breakout year, to when I ran 47.5 as an eighth-grader. At Bullis, I don't even think he expected my freshman year to go the way that it went out.' To understand Wilson, who was born in New London, Connecticut, you need to know his family first. His father Roy was a running back in the Navy and commanded a submarine for over two decades before his retirement. His mother Monique, meanwhile, played NCAA Division II soccer for Barton College in North Carolina and later became a housewife. Wilson's drive to succeed comes from both of his parents, but it's his mother who's often given him a sense of direction. 'She says all the time, 'Stay focused,'' Wilson said. 'If she sees me doing something – if I'm on my phone watching Tik Tok and I don't answer – she'll say 'You're not focused.'' That guidance has served Wilson well, because it's allowed him to develop a sense of balance in a world that might easily pigeonhole him into a specific box. At the Bullis School, where Wilson is finishing up his junior year, he earns straight As and has earned no less than a 94 on his report cards at any time over his academic career. In the classroom, he's developed an interest in mechanical engineering – not to mention sports journalism. And in English class, where Wilson is a whiz with writing essays, he says his classmates tell him, 'I'm the Chat GPT.' Spend one minute listening to him describe this, and you'll begin to understand just how he's translated that success to the track. Wilson constantly seeks perfection. 'The feeling you get when you have a bad grade, I just can't live with that feeling,' he said. 'A lot of people say, 'Quincy, you can just go out there and just do anything in the classroom.' But I can't live with that feeling. 'I can't live with the bad feeling of not having the work done, or thinking about the work I didn't complete when I go to sleep. That's the type of person I am. I'll be thinking about it in my dreams if I don't complete it.' Late last year, after Wilson became an Olympian, performed on the world stage, and earned a gold medal for Team U.S.A., he started to emerge as one of the country's next great hopes. After all, he was the youngest track and field athlete to compete for Team USA. Traveling home afterward, he tried to manage the changing standards the best he could. 'Just trying to accomplish what I want to accomplish, and not worrying about what the outside has to say is a very big thing,' he said. Wilson knows today the spotlight has changed. Every race he's entered in, especially the ones with high schoolers, his name will be highlighted and bulleted and targeted. In situations where he's racing against high schoolers, Wilson is often mobbed by fans afterward – a recent incident in Virginia Beach saw Wilson and his team nearly toppled by a mass of fans following a performance in the 4x200. It doesn't mean he's immune to failure. 'Since I've grown up to be kind of a child star, I kind of realize that now people have expectations of me,' he said. Wilson, instead, has often challenged himself in situations outside his comfort zone. He raced at 500 meters in January and then 600 meters in February. Wilson finished both of those races outside first place. With each loss came equal, and possibly greater, understanding. Squaring off against professionals and Olympians at the New Balance Grand Prix in January, Wilson ran a career best 45.66 seconds for 400 meters indoors. Then in March, he followed up with his third straight national high school title at the distance. Wilson often uses setbacks to fuel him. 'Just coming in with confidence I think can be the best thing,' he said, 'because you have to attack those days you don't feel like going up that last hill … but knowing you had a purpose and a goal, I feel like you know where it got you.' Off the track, Wilson's been more protective of his inner-circle. His best friends at Bullis – Colin Abrams, Chris Tangelo and Javonte Williams – remain his closest allies. The foursome, all track athletes with big-time futures ahead, insulate one another and offer encouragement on the sometimes larger-than-life stage they're performing on. 'We try to live the moment the most we can,' Wilson said,' because we know that some of these opportunities we have may never come again.' And then there are other support systems, too. People you wouldn't quite expect. They're even located hundreds of miles away. Vernon Norwood lives and trains in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. But when the 33-year-old track and field Olympian and multiple-time gold medalist puts on his headset and turns on the television, he opens a different world. There, he'll find Wilson, who's quick to talk smack about his team on NBA 2K – Wilson plays with a character which resembles himself, only it can dunk and shoot 3s like an NBA player. 'It's like big bro, little bro,' Norwood said recently. '(Quincy) is a phenomenal athlete and it's rare to see that type of talent come around. So when you do, you want to nurture and develop it and make sure he can become the greatest.' In June, he met Wilson for the first time, and the pair immediately hit it off. 'He's a great friend, mentor, brother, anything you can say about him,' Wilson. A couple months later, while they were in Paris, Norwood acted as Wilson's chaperone anytime he had to leave the village – a rule in place for any athletes under 18 years of age. That bond remains today. Both are affiliated with New Balance, with Norwood sponsored by the brand as a professional and Wilson on an Name, Image and Likeness deal. 'I try to tell him, 'Keep the main thing the main thing,'' Norwood said. 'Being such a high profile person now, it will come with a whole lot. He has to stay grounded. You have to stay true to yourself and how you are … a lot of times, there are moments. And I say, 'Bro, just focus on the moments.'' Wilson will be one of the main attractions in Philadelphia this weekend. On Instagram, the high schooler has amassed over 388,000 followers and continues his ascent up the technicolor world of stardom. Everywhere he goes, he attracts attention – from pictures to videos and selfies. Coming off such a high-profile performance at The Penn Relays in 2024, the Maryland teenager enamored the largely Jamaican fanbase and welcomed the thought of an American team usurping the Jamaican dominance, which has held strong since 2007 in the 4x400 – in fact, the last U.S. team to win the division was Long Beach Poly. Of course, Bullis School will be arriving off a loss of their own. The team was taken down by Miami Northwestern High School in the final of the 4x400 at the Florida Relays in early April. Wilson, having won the 400 meters that day in 45.27, came up empty over the final 100 meters and was passed by Miami Northwestern's Tywan Cox – a football star headed to the University of Illinois. Perhaps it was all the ammo Wilson needed to re-charge and take flight again. Whatever situation that presents itself this weekend, he will be ready for the outcome. 'It's about how much you want it,' he said.
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Proposed bill would give hiring preference to displaced federal workers living in Montgomery County
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. () – Montgomery County Council Vice President Will Jawando introduced Expedited Bill 10-25 on Tuesday. He's hoping qualified former federal employees are placed at the top of the list for county job openings. 'We're here quite simply, just to defend our neighbors,' Jawando said. Rockville neighbors band together out of concern for dogs' welfare The legislation is meant to help displaced federal workers. 'This bill will guarantee that these civil servants are considered earlier in the hiring process and are interviewed if they meet the qualifications of the job they are applying for,' Jawando said. The proposal, which comes after actions by the Trump administration that left thousands of federal employees without jobs, is intended to give those workers a leg up in finding new positions. Juliette Rizzo is among more than 1,000 federal workers who live in Montgomery County and lost their jobs. 'I just want to share a few hardships when I think about unemployment,' Rizzo said. 'For me, I think about the cost of this wheelchair that raises up to this podium.' Montgomery County nonprofits team up to collect sports equipment for children Kate Greenberg worked at the National Institutes of Health for nearly 15 years before she was fired. 'The mental toll is a lot harder than I thought it was going to be,' Greenberg said. 'This is not how you treat human beings, and this is certainly not how you treat your own workforce.' Rizzo and Greenberg said they're grateful for the opportunity this bill could present if voted into law. 'I want to continue to serve,' Rizzo said. 'I believe in what's being done here for federal servants.' Jawando addressed concerns of people who may apply for county jobs but aren't former federal workers. 'We want to help them find employment, too,' he said. 'But it's a whole government response, and I think this is a targeted response for people, specifically targeted in a negative way.' Bethesda food pantry honors life of former Bullis School student Community members will have a chance to share their thoughts about the bill during a public hearing on Tuesday, April 1. 'If the federal government won't retain its best and brightest, why not put that talent to work at the county level?' Greenberg said. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
CNN
05-02-2025
- Sport
- CNN
Quincy Wilson, an Olympic gold medalist and straight-A student, is ‘more focused in the classroom than on the track'
Quincy Wilson's life is moving quickly, his days passing in a busy blur. But as one of the world's fastest teenagers, he's used to keeping up with this kind of whirlwind pace. It has been six months since Wilson won relay gold as a 16-year-old at the Paris Olympics, becoming the youngest male track and field champion in history. Already that feels like a distant memory, his foot firmly on the gas as he returns to indoor racing. 'I'm just getting back to work,' Wilson tells CNN Sport. 'No gold medal, none of that in mind. When I'm practicing, I'm worrying about my future goals, nothing in the past. I can't go and change what I've done.' It's easy to forget, despite his near-constant boyish grin, that Wilson is still a high school student. He won't graduate from Maryland's Bullis School until next year, and in the meantime continues to pursue his sporting ambitions alongside lessons and homework. That means waking up at 5 a.m. each day and getting on the bus around 6:15 to arrive at school for 7:30. 'Do I like early mornings? No,' says Wilson, 'but I have to do what I gotta do.' A full day of school follows, after which he has practice at the track from 3 to 6 p.m. Then it's back home for more schoolwork and preparing for any tests he might have the next day – hardly a typical schedule for someone who emerged as one of the fastest 400-meter runners in the world last year. But schoolwork, Wilson stresses, is of upmost importance to him. 'I think I'm more focused in the classroom than I am on the track, and that can tell you a lot,' he explains. 'My grade average is an A average throughout this semester already. All my life, I've all had an A average, I think, so nothing has changed.' He lists anatomy and physiology, pre-calculus and photography as some of his favorite classes, and speaks enthusiastically about an ongoing engineering project looking at how buildings are reinforced to withstand different types of earthquakes. 'I'm not taking classes just like PE,' Wilson adds with a smile. 'I'm taking every single class an 11th grader would and some.' He's yet to make a decision on his first-choice college, but hopes to end up somewhere with 'great athletics, great academics, great teammates, great support – just great staff all around' when the time arrives. For now, Wilson's attentions are on the indoor season, using his weekends to travel to meets on the East Coast. He broke his own indoor high school 400-meter record in Boston last weekend, clocking 45.66 seconds around two laps of the track, and will race in the 600-meters at the Millrose Games in New York City on Saturday. With one record already to his name this year, Wilson could target another – Will Sumner's high school 600m record of 1:15.58 – at the Millrose Games, though it would involve lowering his time from last year by almost two seconds. 'I'm just going out there to try to run my best, and if I see 1:15 on the clock, I'll be super ecstatic,' he says. 'But right now, my goal is just to get around the track and try to stay with everyone in the race.' Given his young age and incredible promise – plus his recently acquired status as an Olympic gold medalist – there will undoubtedly be heightened attention on Wilson's performances this season. He shot to fame at last year's US Olympic Trials, twice breaking the under-18 400m world record before finishing sixth in the final. That wasn't enough for an individual spot on the team, but it did earn Wilson a place in the relay pool, making him the youngest US man to compete in track and field at the Olympics. In Paris, weeks after setting another under-18 record of 44.2 seconds, he was far from his best, coming in seventh at the end of the first leg in the 4x400m relay heats. But the US team of Wilson, Vernon Norwood, Bryce Deadmon and Christopher Bailey still secured a spot in the final and went on to win gold as hurdles specialist Rai Benjamin swapped into the team. Running in the heats was still enough to earn Wilson a medal, and he recently revealed that he had sustained a hamstring injury soon after earning a spot on the Olympic team. Despite that, and despite running considerably slower than at the trials, he describes the Olympic experience as a 'dream come true' and 'the best thing that could ever happen to me.' The rest of Wilson's summer was taken up by engagements and invites, still rolling in thick and fast today. He met Jay-Z, visited colleges, and went to baseball and football games around Baltimore; a huge Ravens fan, he spent time at the team's facility, had his photo taken with quarterback Lamar Jackson, and was gifted cleats by wide receiver Zay Flowers. In another life, Wilson might have contemplated a career in the NFL. He was the leading scorer on his high school team during freshman year and only made the decision to focus solely on track at the age of 15. 'Man, I miss football so much,' he says. 'If I could go play football right now, I would. If they invited me to the Super Bowl over the biggest track meet, I don't know which one I would choose, honestly. 'I grew up playing football and running track. I knew my end goals for track, what I wanted to do, and it's hard – every day I think about it, because I just want to go back and play (football) right now. I just want to go outside and throw a football around, but I know I've done a lot of great things in track.' As for the Ravens, Wilson says that he 'was almost in tears' when tight end Mark Andrew dropped a game-tying two-point conversion in the team's recent divisional round defeat. 'We're inching closer and closer to the Super Bowl,' he adds. 'You guys are gonna see us in a couple years. I'm telling you.' Unbelievably, Wilson was only four years old during the Ravens' last Super Bowl appearance in 2012. He has since grown into one of the most exciting young athletes of his generation, already racing against – and beating – far more experienced opponents. In that time, he has remained unfazed by his fast-tracked rise to senior racing. The stakes might be higher, the competition fiercer, but the basic act of completing a single lap of a running track as fast as possible is still the same. 'They put the spikes on the same way I do,' says Wilson. 'We line up the same way I do, we get in the blocks the same way. So I feel like it's nothing different. You may be 6'10', and I may be 4'11', but at the end of the day, we've got to run and we've got to run together. 'You'll see a lot of 16-year-olds like, 'Yeah, I'm going to just let you win.' But for me, I'm not letting anybody win. I'm ready to fight to the line as well.' At 5'9', Wilson is shorter and physically less developed than most of his rivals. Yet more striking is the way in which he runs. Head tilted back, arms flapping at the side of his body – it's hardly conventional form for a sprinter. But being unconventional is also part of Wilson's modus operandi, central to the dichotomy between his life as an elite runner and high school student. He's part Olympian and gold medalist, part schoolboy figuring out when to do his homework and when to get his driver's license. Right now, Wilson has placed things like getting his license on hold. However, he has spent a lot of the past 12 months remembering that 'you're a kid and a 16-year-old who's going to school and having fun and doing a lot of cool things that a teenager's doing.' In the world of track and field and beyond, not many Olympic gold medalists have been able to say that.
