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Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Killieare on the rise with or without McInnes
Robbie Deas believes Kilmarnock are "capable of going on to bigger and better things" with or without manager Derek McInnes. Hearts have agreed a deal to secure McInnes' services, although personal terms have yet to be finalised. Defender Deas, meanwhile, has agreed a new two-year contract extension with the Ayrshire club and revealed "I wouldn't have signed" if he did not think they could be successful under a new manager. "I feel very at home here," the 25-year-old, previously of former Inverness Caledonian Thistle, said. "I think it's been a successful two years. "Finishing fourth and getting into Europe was amazing and I maybe took that for granted because it was my first year here. "This season's been quite difficult, but at the end of the day, we secured safety in the Premiership." Kilmarnock have won three games in a row despite speculation about McInnes' future during which Deas thought there had been "no mood change in the camp". He admitted that McInnes' "stature" was "one of the main reasons" he signed for the club and that: "I feel he has been really good with me and I've come on leaps and bounds." However, Deas believes "I've still got a lot to give to the club" and that there is "loads of quality" in the squad no matter who is manager next season. "The only reason I want to stay is because I know the players who are going to be here," he added. "There's nowhere else I would want to play my football for the next two years."
The Independent
28-04-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
Winter Olympic medallist Laura Deas retires from skeleton
Winter Olympics bronze medallist Laura Deas has announced her retirement from skeleton seven years after her podium finish at Pyeonchang 2018. The Wrexham-born slider finished third in South Korea as Great Britain secured two medals, with Deas sharing the podium with Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold. The 36-year-old finished 19th at the next Games in Beijing before missing the 2023-24 season to give birth to a daughter. But having attempted a return to World Cup racing, Deas has now called time on her career, with her final race a silver-medal winning slide at a World Cup event in Latvia in 2023. "Immediately after the Beijing Olympics, I wanted to at least do one more season because I didn't want to leave the sport on that note because they (the Beijing Games) hadn't gone so well," Deas told BBC Radio Wiltshire. "So I definitely knew that I had at least one more season in me from that point onwards. "But in my head, it was quite an open-ended situation. I didn't really have a hard end point in mind, and I think partly that was because I didn't really want to approach any race knowing for sure that it was going to be the last time I ever stepped on ice. Because the thing about our sport, really, is that there's no way to just do it recreationally. 'I managed to win a medal [at her last race], which was a lovely sign off. So I was thinking, 'well, if this is the last time I set foot on ice, what a nice way to do it'.' Deas had combined with Matt Weston to secure team silver at the World Championships in St Moritz earlier in 2023. Her Olympic bronze medal continued Team GB's outstanding record in the skeleton since the women's event was added to the Winter Games in 2002. Alex Coomber and Shelley Rudman secured bronze and silver respectively in 2002 and 2006, before Amy Williams kicked off a run of three consecutive Olympic champions from Great Britain in 2010 with Yarnold securing back-to-back successes. Weston, meanwhile, is tracking well ahead of the men's event at Milan-Cortina Olympics next year, securing back-to-back overall World Cup wins.
Yahoo
28-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Olympic skeleton bronze medallist Deas retires
Former Winter Olympics skeleton bronze medallist Laura Deas has announced her retirement from the sport. The 36-year-old Wrexham-born competitor's career highlight came at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games in South Korea when she finished third, sharing the podium with gold medallist and good friend Lizzy Yarnold. That was the first time a British duo had mounted the same podium at a Winter Games. Deas finished 19th at her next Olympics, the 2022 Beijing Games and missed the 2023-24 season after becoming pregnant. Deas had returned to training following the birth of her daughter, but having not raced since the end of the 2022-23 campaign, has now decided to quit competing. Her final race was a World Cup finale in February 2023 where she took a silver medal which she says was "a lovely sign off". "Immediately after Beijing the Olympics, I wanted to at least do one more season because I didn't want to leave the sport on that note because they (the Beijing Games) hadn't gone so well," Deas told BBC Radio Wiltshire. "So I definitely knew that I had at least one more season in me from that point onwards. "But in my head, it was quite an open-ended situation. I didn't really have a hard end point in mind, and I think partly that was because I didn't really want to approach any race knowing for sure that it was going to be the last time I ever stepped on ice. "Because that's the thing about our sport, really, is that there's no way to just do it recreationally." She finished second in her final race, a World Cup event at Sigulda, Latvia and has fond memories of that day. "I managed to win a medal, which was a lovely sign off," said Deas. "So I was thinking, 'well, if this is the last ever time I set foot on ice, what a nice way to do it. "I mean, that's the thing, isn't it? For a lot of athletes, it's other things that contribute to that decision to move on and do other things. Sometimes it's injury, sometimes it's just performance. "It was a really nice race as well, because a lot of my family were able to be there as well, and friends, and it was a lovely atmosphere. "And it was the end of a season that had actually been very healing for everyone after the Olympic disappointment, to be able to go back onto the World Cup tour and have some success and kind of really show everyone what we could do again." You can listen to the full interview with Laura Deas on BBC Radio Wiltshire's Sport at Six on Monday, 28 April, 18:00 BST and later on demand.
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Yahoo
15-year-old arrested for fatal shooting of Tacoma man inside apartment building
An arrest has been made in Tacoma for the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Messiah Washington. Detectives and officers arrested a 15-year-old boy on Wednesday after they developed probable cause from their investigation. The teen was booked into the Remann Hall juvenile detention center on suspicion of first-degree murder, according to the Tacoma Police Department in a news release. The teen will appear for a hearing Friday morning at Remann Hall, according to a spokesperson for the Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney's Office. Officers were dispatched just after 9 p.m. to an apartment building near the 1100 block of South L Street on Feb. 22. Washington suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene after life-saving measures were initiated. Washington died inside the apartment's elevator, just a few steps away from the unit that he shared with his father, his sister, Kiara Deas told The News Tribune. Deas said their father watched Washington take his last breath. 'My dad raised my brother. Him and my dad were together every day,' she said. 'He was very respectful, like you never would hear him being disrespectful to any adult. He had a lot of family around him, and we have a lot of people who loved him,' she said. Deas believes 'nothing is worth a life' and that the gun violence has to end. A GoFundMe has been set up to raise funds to support Washington's family as they take the time to grieve.
