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Yahoo
28-03-2025
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Riku Miura, Ryuichi Kihara win pairs' world title; U.S. gets chance at 3 Olympic spots
BOSTON — Japan's Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara barely reclaimed the pairs' title at the World Figure Skating Championships, while the U.S. will get a chance to have three teams at the Olympics for the first time in 32 years. Miura and Kihara prevailed by 71 hundredths of a point over Germans Minerva Hase and Nikita Volodin combining results from Wednesday's short program and Thursday's free skate at TD Garden. Italians Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii earned bronze. Advertisement Americans Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov and Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea finished sixth and seventh. Their results needed to add up to no more than 13 to give the U.S. a chance at earning a third 2026 Olympic pairs' spot, and they hit 13 on the number. FIGURE SKATING WORLDS: Results | Broadcast Schedule The U.S. last qualified the maximum three pairs' teams at the Olympics for the 1994 Lillehammer Games. To get a third spot for Milan Cortina, a U.S. pair other than Efimova and Mitrofanov and Kam and O'Shea must compete at a qualifier in Beijing in September. There, the last three Olympic pairs' spots are at stake. Competition is expected to be tough, given the likely presence of teams from traditional pairs' powers Russia and China, which could take two of the three available spots. Advertisement Efimova and Mitrofanov, the U.S. champions, were clutch Thursday. After placing ninth in the short program, they turned in the fourtth-best free skate to move up three crucial places. "That would mean a lot," to get the third Olympic spot, Mitrofanov said. "It's bigger than us. That's something, actually, we kind of set a little goal in our heads (before worlds). "Whether or not we make it to the Olympics, we at least know that we did everything for Team USA." Efimova and Mitrofanov train at the Skating Club of Boston. In the kiss and cry the last two days, they held pictures of club members who died in the Jan. 29 mid-air collision between American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army helicopter. Advertisement "We wanted to dedicate our performance to everybody, and not just us," Mitrofanov said. Miura, 23, and Kihara, 32, have trained in Ontario since teaming in 2019, just about the time that Kihara was ready to retire after two Olympics with other partners and a recent concussion. They ranked outside the top 20 pairs in the world that first season, but since set milestones for pairs in Japan, which has a rich figure skating history in singles events. Miura and Kihara placed seventh in their first Olympics together in 2022. Japan's best previous Olympic pairs' finish was 14th. Since, they've finished second, first, second and first at the World Championships. None of the other top 13 teams from the 2022 Olympics are still competing together internationally. Advertisement After winning their first world title in March 2023, Miura and Kihara were sidelined that fall by Kihara's lumbar spondylosis. They returned last February and then took silver at last March's worlds, winning the free skate. This season, they regularly had errors in the free skate. At December's Grand Prix Final, they finished a distant 11.39 points behind Hase and Volodin. Now back on top, Miura and Kihara can become the third and fourth Japanese skaters to win Olympic gold after Shizuka Arakawa (2006) and Yuzuru Hanyu (2014 and 2018). Of Japan's 18 world titles in figure skating, 16 have come in singles, plus the two from Miura and Kihara. ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships - Seoul At figure skating worlds, a U.S.-Canada ice dance story adds a chapter Madison Chock and Evan Bates go for a third consecutive world title, but Canadians Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier have momentum.
NBC Sports
28-03-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Riku Miura, Ryuichi Kihara win pairs' world title; U.S. gets chance at 3 Olympic spots
BOSTON — Japan's Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara barely reclaimed the pairs' title at the World Figure Skating Championships, while the U.S. will get a chance to have three teams at the Olympics for the first time in 32 years. Miura and Kihara prevailed by 71 hundredths of a point over Germans Minerva Hase and Nikita Volodin combining results from Wednesday's short program and Thursday's free skate at TD Garden. Italians Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii earned bronze. Americans Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov and Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea finished sixth and seventh. Their results needed to add up to no more than 13 to give the U.S. a chance at earning a third 2026 Olympic pairs' spot, and they hit 13 on the number. FIGURE SKATING WORLDS: Results | Broadcast Schedule The U.S. last qualified the maximum three pairs' teams at the Olympics for the 1994 Lillehammer Games. To get a third spot for Milan Cortina, a U.S. pair other than Efimova and Mitrofanov and Kam and O'Shea must compete at a qualifier in Beijing in September. There, the last three Olympic pairs' spots are at stake. Competition is expected to be tough, given the likely presence of teams from traditional pairs' powers Russia and China, which could take two of the three available spots. Efimova and Mitrofanov, the U.S. champions, were clutch Thursday. After placing ninth in the short program, they turned in the fourth-best free skate to move up three crucial places. 'That would mean a lot,' to get the third Olympic spot, Mitrofanov said. 'It's bigger than us. That's something, actually, we kind of set a little goal in our heads (before worlds). 'Whether or not we make it to the Olympics, we at least know that we did everything for Team USA.' Efimova and Mitrofanov train at the Skating Club of Boston. In the kiss and cry the last two days, they held pictures of club members who died in the Jan. 29 mid-air collision between American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army helicopter. 'We wanted to dedicate our performance to everybody, and not just us,' Mitrofanov said. Miura, 23, and Kihara, 32, have trained in Ontario since teaming in 2019, just about the time that Kihara was ready to retire after two Olympics with other partners and a recent concussion. They ranked outside the top 20 pairs in the world that first season, but since set milestones for pairs in Japan, which has a rich figure skating history in singles events. Miura and Kihara placed seventh in their first Olympics together in 2022. Japan's best previous Olympic pairs' finish was 14th. Since, they've finished second, first, second and first at the World Championships. None of the other top 13 teams from the 2022 Olympics are still competing together internationally. After winning their first world title in March 2023, Miura and Kihara were sidelined that fall by Kihara's lumbar spondylosis. They returned last February and then took silver at last March's worlds, winning the free skate. This season, they regularly had errors in the free skate. At December's Grand Prix Final, they finished a distant 11.39 points behind Hase and Volodin. Now back on top, Miura and Kihara can become the third and fourth Japanese skaters to win Olympic gold after Shizuka Arakawa (2006) and Yuzuru Hanyu (2014 and 2018). Of Japan's 18 world titles in figure skating, 16 have come in singles, plus the two from Miura and Kihara. Philip Hersh,
Yahoo
15-03-2025
- Yahoo
Preacher doesn't flinch as activist points apparent gun at his head
Unfazed and unshaken. Shocking video has been released showing the moment a pastor had an apparent gun pointed in his face by an activist – but the cool-headed preacher hardly moves a muscle. Kevin Kihara, 37, a pastor of Christian Forgiveness Ministries in San Francisco, was speaking out against the transgender ideology in Santa Ana on Wednesday when the unhinged aggressor came at him, brandishing what appeared to be a firearm. "He didn't make a man to be a woman, he made the man to be a man," Kihara belted out to passers-by on the California sidewalk, before adding, "He didn't make the woman to be man, he made the woman to be a woman and this is the truth!" Transgender Sailors, Marines Offered Benefits To Voluntarily Leave Service Or Face Being Kicked Out Kihara, who was speaking into a mic on a sidewalk, then calmly looks and sees the person – who is out of shot – fast approaching. Read On The Fox News App "What are you going to come attack me now?" Kihara says bluntly. That's when the emotionally charged person -- dressed in denim overalls and a black and white striped T-shirt – walks up to him and pulls out what appears to be a large handgun and points it in Kihara's face. "I should," the tattooed person responds. But Kihara barely flinches, holding the mic and then blasting back at the menace, exclaiming: "Hey man, it's up to you if you want to pull that on me. God bless you." The furious person then turns away and marches into the distance yelling profanities at the church leader. "Shut the f--- up!" the suspect screams, fleeing the scene. Federal Judge Rips Doj Lawyers, Demands Written Retraction From Hegseth Over Transgender Military Policy Post Unfazed, Kihara keeps preaching. "So you just threatened me with a gun," he says. "You just pulled a gun on my face. Man, Lord have mercy on you," he continued. "This means you don't even know who you are. I still love you though. Even you pulled a gun on me, I still love you, I still bless you." The video, which was initially posted to Christian Forgiveness Ministries' YouTube channel, generated plenty of responses, with most commenters heaping praise on Kihara's coolness in the face of a potential life and death situation. "I'm thrilled your [sic] still alive. You're super courageous. I pray for your protection," wrote one commenter. "What a legend," wrote another. It's unclear if the gun was real, with some online sleuths arguing it was a C02 BB gun, or air pistol. It's not known if Kihara reported the incident to police. Fox News Digital reached out to Christian Forgiveness Ministries for comment but did not receive a response. Click To Get The Fox News App Immediately following the incident, a woman walks up to Kihara and argues with him over preaching about trans people. "God does not appreciate what you're doing right now," she says, among other points. "He knows that I'm preaching the truth," Kihara says. Their back and forth lasts for about four minutes before she eventually walks article source: Preacher doesn't flinch as activist points apparent gun at his head
Yahoo
15-03-2025
- Yahoo
Preacher doesn't flinch as activist points apparent gun at his head
Unfazed and unshaken. Shocking video has been released showing the moment a pastor had an apparent gun pointed in his face by an activist – but the cool-headed preacher hardly moves a muscle. Kevin Kihara, 37, a pastor of Christian Forgiveness Ministries in San Francisco, was speaking out against the transgender ideology in Santa Ana on Wednesday when the unhinged aggressor came at him, brandishing what appeared to be a firearm. "He didn't make a man to be a woman, he made the man to be a man," Kihara belted out to passers-by on the California sidewalk, before adding, "He didn't make the woman to be man, he made the woman to be a woman and this is the truth!" Transgender Sailors, Marines Offered Benefits To Voluntarily Leave Service Or Face Being Kicked Out Kihara, who was speaking into a mic on a sidewalk, then calmly looks and sees the person – who is out of shot – fast approaching. Read On The Fox News App "What are you going to come attack me now?" Kihara says bluntly. That's when the emotionally charged person -- dressed in denim overalls and a black and white striped T-shirt – walks up to him and pulls out what appears to be a large handgun and points it in Kihara's face. "I should," the tattooed person responds. But Kihara barely flinches, holding the mic and then blasting back at the menace, exclaiming: "Hey man, it's up to you if you want to pull that on me. God bless you." The furious person then turns away and marches into the distance yelling profanities at the church leader. "Shut the f--- up!" the suspect screams, fleeing the scene. Federal Judge Rips Doj Lawyers, Demands Written Retraction From Hegseth Over Transgender Military Policy Post Unfazed, Kihara keeps preaching. "So you just threatened me with a gun," he says. "You just pulled a gun on my face. Man, Lord have mercy on you," he continued. "This means you don't even know who you are. I still love you though. Even you pulled a gun on me, I still love you, I still bless you." The video, which was initially posted to Christian Forgiveness Ministries' YouTube channel, generated plenty of responses, with most commenters heaping praise on Kihara's coolness in the face of a potential life and death situation. "I'm thrilled your [sic] still alive. You're super courageous. I pray for your protection," wrote one commenter. "What a legend," wrote another. It's unclear if the gun was real, with some online sleuths arguing it was a C02 BB gun, or air pistol. It's not known if Kihara reported the incident to police. Fox News Digital reached out to Christian Forgiveness Ministries for comment but did not receive a response. Click To Get The Fox News App Immediately following the incident, a woman walks up to Kihara and argues with him over preaching about trans people. "God does not appreciate what you're doing right now," she says, among other points. "He knows that I'm preaching the truth," Kihara says. Their back and forth lasts for about four minutes before she eventually walks article source: Preacher doesn't flinch as activist points apparent gun at his head
Fox News
15-03-2025
- Fox News
Preacher doesn't flinch as activist points apparent gun at his head
Unfazed and unshaken. Shocking video has been released showing the moment a pastor had an apparent gun pointed in his face by an activist – but the cool-headed preacher hardly moves a muscle. Kevin Kihara, 37, a pastor of Christian Forgiveness Ministries in San Francisco, was speaking out against the transgender ideology in Santa Ana on Wednesday when the unhinged aggressor came at him, brandishing what appeared to be a firearm. "He didn't make a man to be a woman, he made the man to be a man," Kihara belted out to passers-by on the California sidewalk, before adding, "He didn't make the woman to be man, he made the woman to be a woman and this is the truth!" Kihara, who was speaking into a mic on a sidewalk, then calmly looks and sees the person – who is out of shot – fast approaching. "What are you going to come attack me now?" Kihara says bluntly. That's when the emotionally charged person -- dressed in denim overalls and a black and white striped T-shirt – walks up to him and pulls out what appears to be a large handgun and points it in Kihara's face. "I should," the tattooed person responds. But Kihara barely flinches, holding the mic and then blasting back at the menace, exclaiming: "Hey man, it's up to you if you want to pull that on me. God bless you." The furious person then turns away and marches into the distance yelling profanities at the church leader. "Shut the f--- up!" the suspect screams, fleeing the scene. Unfazed, Kihara keeps preaching. "So you just threatened me with a gun," he says. "You just pulled a gun on my face. Man, Lord have mercy on you," he continued. "This means you don't even know who you are. I still love you though. Even you pulled a gun on me, I still love you, I still bless you." The video, which was initially posted to Christian Forgiveness Ministries' YouTube channel, generated plenty of responses, with most commenters heaping praise on Kihara's coolness in the face of a potential life and death situation. "I'm thrilled your [sic] still alive. You're super courageous. I pray for your protection," wrote one commenter. "What a legend," wrote another. It's unclear if the gun was real, with some online sleuths arguing it was a C02 BB gun, or air pistol. It's not known if Kihara reported the incident to police. Fox News Digital reached out to Christian Forgiveness Ministries for comment but did not receive a response. Immediately following the incident, a woman walks up to Kihara and argues with him over preaching about trans people. "God does not appreciate what you're doing right now," she says, among other points. "He knows that I'm preaching the truth," Kihara says. Their back and forth lasts for about four minutes before she eventually walks off.
