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News.com.au
15 hours ago
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Rugby star's Ilona Maher's Miami Swim Week reveal
A popular rugby player and US Olympian has revealed a key detail that went on behind the scenes of her Miami Swim week appearance. Ilona Maher, who is the world's most followed rugby player on social media, recently took the internet by storm with her appearance. 'Men think they are tough but they'll never do Miami Swim Week wearing only bikinis while on their periods like I did,' she said. Fans commended Maher for her efforts. 'You absolutely SHINED in Miami Swim Week, GO GIRL,' one said. Another said: 'Hell yeah, I'm synched up with an Olympic champion�.' 'Another medal, get her another medal now,' one commented. One said: 'WHILE ON YOUR PERIOD? SLAY!' Maher has been in swimsuits a lot recently between the fashion event and appearing in Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit edition for the second time. When asked if being in a swimsuit was tough for her, Mahertold the Today Show she loved showing off what her body had done for her. 'I've been to two Olympics now. It does amazing things on the field. It's just perfect for what it does and so strong,' she said. 'I think other girls seeing that, and feeling like, 'Oh my gosh, I look like her, I have the frame of her' not only has helped me and made me feel more confident, I think it helps others. 'You can be just as confident, feel as beautiful as I do.' She also said she did zero preparation ahead of her Sports Illustrated appearance, saying she wanted to look back and appreciate the real version of herself. The 28-year-old has been forced to defend what her body looks like, particularly last year after a troll called her out for having a BMI of 30. 'I do have a BMI of 30, well 29.3 to be more exact. I've been considered overweight my whole life,' she said in a now viral clip shared last year. 'In middle school, elementary school, high school, I've always been considered overweight.' Maher recalled an incident in high school when she had to return a physical test to the school office and at the bottom it said 'overweight'. 'I was so embarrassed to turn that in and to have that written there,' she said. 'So my whole life I've been this way. I chatted with my dietitian, because I go off facts and not just what pops off up here (as she points to her head), like you do. 'We talked about BMI and how it really isn't helpful to athletes. BMI doesn't tell you much, it just tells you your height and weight and what that equals. 'I've said it before, I'm five-ten (178cm), 200 pounds (90kgs), and I have about 170 pounds of lean mass on me. Do that math in your head, you probably can't. 'That's pretty crazy right? And that BMI doesn't really tell you what I can do. It doesn't tell you what I do on the field, how fit I am, it's just a couple of numbers put together.' And then the two-time Olympian finished it off with the perfect take-down, adding; 'So yeah I do have a BMI of 30, I am considered overweight. But alas, I'm going to the Olympics, and you're not.'
The Independent
7 days ago
- General
- The Independent
Connecticut man gets 33 years in prison for stray-bullet killing of Olympian's mother
A Connecticut man was sentenced to 33 years in prison on Tuesday for the stray-bullet killing of a Puerto Rican Olympic athlete's mother. Jasper Greene, 23, of New Haven, was one of three men charged in the death of Mabel Martinez Antongiorgi on April 9, 2022. The 56-year-old woman was sewing in her home in Waterbury, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Hartford, when a bullet flew through a wall and hit her in the head. Martinez Antongiorgi's daughter, Yarimar Mercado Martinez, competed for the family's native Puerto Rico in rifle shooting at the Olympics in 2016, 2021 and 2024. She was in Brazil for another competition when her mother was killed. Greene pleaded guilty to murder in February. His lawyer did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment after Tuesday's sentencing in Waterbury Superior Court. According to court testimony, the fatal shooting stemmed from a dispute that one of the suspects, Franklin Robinson, had with a man who said hello to his girlfriend. Robinson, Greene and another man shot up a car parked on Martinez Antongiorgi's street, thinking the man was inside it. A bullet went into Martinez Antongiorgi's home. Another bystander was wounded but survived. A jury convicted Robinson of murder and other charges in 2023 and he was later sentenced to 90 years in prison. The third suspect, Levi Brock, has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges in the case, including murder, and awaits trial. At the time of her mother's death, Mercado Martinez lamented in social media posts that she 'couldn't even say goodbye.' 'Why you? Why this way?' she wrote. 'You were just sitting in your little house sewing, as you always did.' Martinez Antongiorgi and her husband of over 30 years, John Luis Mercado, moved to Waterbury from Puerto Rico a few years after the U.S. territory endured 2017's devastating Hurricane Maria. At the time of her death, they had set a date to renew their wedding vows, their daughter wrote at the time.
Associated Press
7 days ago
- General
- Associated Press
Connecticut man gets 33 years in prison for stray-bullet killing of Olympian's mother
WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man was sentenced to 33 years in prison on Tuesday for the stray-bullet killing of a Puerto Rican Olympic athlete's mother. Jasper Greene, 23, of New Haven, was one of three men charged in the death of Mabel Martinez Antongiorgi on April 9, 2022. The 56-year-old woman was sewing in her home in Waterbury, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Hartford, when a bullet flew through a wall and hit her in the head. Martinez Antongiorgi's daughter, Yarimar Mercado Martinez, competed for the family's native Puerto Rico in rifle shooting at the Olympics in 2016, 2021 and 2024. She was in Brazil for another competition when her mother was killed. Greene pleaded guilty to murder in February. His lawyer did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment after Tuesday's sentencing in Waterbury Superior Court. According to court testimony, the fatal shooting stemmed from a dispute that one of the suspects, Franklin Robinson, had with a man who said hello to his girlfriend. Robinson, Greene and another man shot up a car parked on Martinez Antongiorgi's street, thinking the man was inside it. A bullet went into Martinez Antongiorgi's home. Another bystander was wounded but survived. A jury convicted Robinson of murder and other charges in 2023 and he was later sentenced to 90 years in prison. The third suspect, Levi Brock, has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges in the case, including murder, and awaits trial. At the time of her mother's death, Mercado Martinez lamented in social media posts that she 'couldn't even say goodbye.' 'Why you? Why this way?' she wrote. 'You were just sitting in your little house sewing, as you always did.' Martinez Antongiorgi and her husband of over 30 years, John Luis Mercado, moved to Waterbury from Puerto Rico a few years after the U.S. territory endured 2017's devastating Hurricane Maria. At the time of her death, they had set a date to renew their wedding vows, their daughter wrote at the time.
News.com.au
21-05-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Titmus commits to LA 2028 with a clause
Olympics: Aussie swimmer Ariarne Titmus has announced that she plans to compete at the LA 2028 Olympics but she has a get-out clause.
Washington Post
21-05-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
USA Hockey's Hilary Knight tells USA Today 2026 Winter Games will be her 5th and final Olympics
Hilary Knight is preparing to make the 2026 Milan Winter Games her fifth and final Olympics, the face of U.S. women's hockey told USA Today on Tuesday . 'It's time,' Knight was quoted as saying. 'I have grown up in this program and it's just given me so much. I'm at peace. I just have this feeling that it's time,' she added. 'And I'm grateful that — hopefully I can stay healthy and everything — I can go out when I'd like to be done. That is such a privilege that only a handful of competitors get.'
