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The Star
2 days ago
- Sport
- The Star
Swimming-Chalmers hopes Enhanced Games leads to improvement in prize money for clean swimmers
FILE PHOTO: Paris 2024 Olympics - Swimming - Men's 100m Freestyle Victory Ceremony - Paris La Defense Arena, Nanterre, France - July 31, 2024. Silver medallist Kyle Chalmers of Australia celebrates on the podium. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File photo (Reuters) -Kyle Chalmers won't criticise fellow swimmers for taking part in the Enhanced Games, but the Australian hopes the proposed multi-sport event prompts World Aquatics to increase prize money for clean athletes. The Enhanced Games will allow athletes to use pharmacological or technological assistance, including substances banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Retired Australian world champion swimmer James Magnussen, 34, in February last year agreed to take performance-enhancing drugs to make an attempt at beating Cesar Cielo's 15-year-old 50-metre freestyle world record. The Enhanced Games concept has been met with widespread criticism, with World Aquatics introducing a new bylaw that will prevent any athlete or official who supports or endorses doping from competing or holding any positions after a Greek swimmer supported by the Enhanced Games 'broke' the world record. "James is one of my really great mates so I'm definitely not going to knock him for going across there," Chalmers was quoted as saying by the Australian Associated Press on Sunday. "That is something that is hard in our sport, there's not a huge amount of money or prize money on offer and we kind of do it for the love of it. "So I am not going to be a person that slams swimmers for wanting to go across and make some money and give themselves a better opportunity in life or set their families up..." The Enhanced Games will hold their inaugural competition in Las Vegas in May next year with swimming, athletics and weightlifting on the agenda. Participants could earn prize money totalling up to $500,000 per event plus bonuses for surpassing a world record mark. "Swimmers have been underpaid for a very long time at the big competitions," the 26-year-old said. "I'm very lucky to have a lot of personal sponsors so I do OK for myself, which is nice. But I know that there's a lot of swimmers out there that really struggle... "So I really hope that there is a shift, that we are able to get a little bit more prize money for what we do, but I guess we'll see." (Reporting by Pearl Josephine Nazare in Bengaluru; Editing by Michael Perry)
Reuters
4 days ago
- Climate
- Reuters
Breaking International News & Views
Item 1 of 5 A drone view shows the early stages of the rewetting process at Ballaghurt Bog, near Clongawny, Ireland, April 16, 2024. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne [1/5] A drone view shows the early stages of the rewetting process at Ballaghurt Bog, near Clongawny, Ireland, April 16, 2024. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
The Star
5 days ago
- The Star
Nine injured in Ryanair emergency landing in Germany
FILE PHOTO: General view of the Ryanair logo at their headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, September 16, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo (Reuters) -A Milan-bound Ryanair flight was forced to make an emergency landing in southern Germany late on Wednesday due to heavy turbulence from a thunderstorm, with nine passengers injured, police said. The flight from Berlin landed safely in Memmingen, about 115 km (70 miles) west of Munich, after bad weather prompted the pilot to initiate the emergency landing, Bavaria police said in a statement. Among the injured were a woman who sustained a head injury, her two-year-old toddler who suffered bruises and a 59-year-old woman complaining of back pain, police said. All three were treated in hospital, while other injuries were treated at the scene. Ryanair said in a statement on Thursday that the flight's captain had requested medical assistance ahead of landing. The airline, which apologised to those affected, said it provided a bus service from Memmingen to Milan late on Wednesday as well as a replacement flight early on Thursday. (Reporting by Ludwig Burger; Editing by Kim Coghill and Louise Heavens)
Straits Times
5 days ago
- Straits Times
Nine injured in Ryanair emergency landing in Germany
FILE PHOTO: General view of the Ryanair logo at their headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, September 16, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo A Milan-bound Ryanair flight was forced to make an emergency landing in southern Germany late on Wednesday due to heavy turbulence from a thunderstorm, with nine passengers injured, police said. The flight from Berlin landed safely in Memmingen, about 115 km (70 miles) west of Munich, after bad weather prompted the pilot to initiate the emergency landing, Bavaria police said in a statement. Among the injured were a woman who sustained a head injury, her two-year-old toddler who suffered bruises and a 59-year-old woman complaining of back pain, police said. All three were treated in hospital, while other injuries were treated at the scene. Ryanair said in a statement on Thursday that the flight's captain had requested medical assistance ahead of landing. The airline, which apologised to those affected, said it provided a bus service from Memmingen to Milan late on Wednesday as well as a replacement flight early on Thursday. REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Straits Times
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Straits Times
Irish band Kneecap say terrorism charge seeks to silence artists
FILE PHOTO: Members of Kneecap pose on the red carpet at the Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) Awards in Dublin, Ireland, February 14, 2025. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo LONDON - Irish-language rap band Kneecap said on Thursday that a charge of a terrorism offence against one of its members for displaying a flag of banned militant group Hezbollah represented an attempt to prosecute artists who speak out. London's Metropolitan Police charged Liam O'Hanna, one of the three members of the Belfast-based band, on Wednesday saying he displayed a flag in support of the Iran-backed group during a show in November. In a statement on X, the band said the charge represented "political policing" and sought "to prosecute artists who dare speak out". The trio said O'Hanna displayed a flag that had been thrown on stage. They did not mention Hezbollah. O'Hanna, 27, is due to appear in court on June 18. Kneecap, who rap about Irish identity and support the republican cause of uniting Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom, with the Republic of Ireland, faced backlash over pro-Palestinian messages projected during their set last month at the annual music festival Coachella in California. "Let us be unequivocal: we do not, and have never, supported Hamas or Hezbollah," they said on X last month about two groups banned in Britain. "We condemn all attacks on civilians, always. It is never okay. We know this more than anyone, given our nation's history." The trio apologised in April to the families of two murdered British members of the parliament after footage emerged of them appearing to say "kill your local MP" during a 2023 performance. Kneecap is due to play at the Glastonbury Festival in England in June. Some lawmakers have called on the festival organisers to cancel their appearance. REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
