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There were two requirements for the Stade de France track for the 2024 Paris Olympics: make it purple and make it fast. The colour was, in fittingly Parisian fashion, about creating a unique stage for athletes to perform. A lighter hue than the typical red tracks, following in the footsteps of the 2016 Olympics in…
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Warner Bros. The 1998 sci-fi war film “Soldier” might be the best film in Paul W.S. Anderson’s career. A kind-of-spinoff to “Blade Runner” (both films were written by David Webb Peoples), “Soldier” begins in 1996, when the American government implements a new program to raise children, from birth,…
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By Lisa Edser For Daily Mail Australia Published: 11:43 EDT, 12 August 2024 | Updated: 11:44 EDT, 12 August 2024 A popular rugby player has been killed in a horror car crash. Joseph ‘Joe’ Simpkins was the driver of a car that crashed on the Tonkin Highway, near Perth Airport, at about 1.45am on Sunday.…
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Andre Onana returned to competitive football this weekend in the Community Shield against Manchester City, with his side losing on penalties at Wembley. Last season it emerged the Manchester United goalkeeper uses Vaseline on his gloves, which raised several other questions for me. What other substances do we ’keepers put on our gloves to try…
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Searchlight Pictures Jeff Bridges made his unofficial screen debut in John Cromwell’s 1951 drama “The Company She Keeps” just over a year after he was born. The son of actors Dorothy and Lloyd Bridges, he steadily proved himself a nepo baby of the finest order upon reaching young…
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A Massachusetts Salon owner feels ‘violated’ after the United States Secret Service broke into her business during a nearby fundraiser for Vice President Kamala Harris. Footage from a Ring security camera shows an agent approaching the front door of the business in Berkshire, Massachusetts before coming back to tape over the video camera. Alicia Powers,…
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Grinning last month, Louis Rees-Zammit shared just how much he wanted to experience his first full-contact hit as an NFL player. Rees-Zammit, the Welsh former rugby star who joined the Kansas City Chiefs in March, knew he was just a few days away from his first training camp practice in full…
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Static Media In April of 1985, Stephen King told The Washington Post he was working on a sprawling new novel; a book that had him “obsessed for years.” “I’ve been working on the rewrite, and I’m surrounded by this huge manuscript,” he said. “There are times when I think…
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Tycoon threatens to axe funds over ‘party split risk’ By Tom Gordon Deputy Scottish Political Editor Published: 09:23 EDT, 10 August 2024 | Updated: 09:24 EDT, 10 August 2024 One of the Conservatives’ biggest Scottish donors has threatened to stop funding the party if Murdo Fraser wins the leadership battle. Aberdeen businessman Alan Massie said…
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PARIS — The ball bounced off the rim five times. Five! Stephen Curry came off that brick-house screen from Joel Embiid late in the fourth quarter, with Serbian guard Ognjen Dobrić running into the wall as if he were Wile E. Coyote and crumpling to the floor, and the greatest shooter of all time fired…