For many, it has been a time of panicked calls home and huddles with fellow international students. For Kat, a data science student from China, the news comes as she prepares to graduate. Foreigners set to receive degrees from Harvard next week
WADA revoked accreditation for the anti-doping lab in Bloemfontein, South Africa, “due to its inability to satisfactorily address multiple nonconformities.”The lab has been suspended since September 2023 for issues including detecting steroids in athlete samples.
WADA has accredited a network of about 30 labs worldwide and samples collected in Africa can be transported to testers in India, Qatar, Portugal, Spain and Turkey.Collecting samples from remote athlete training centers and transporting them long distances increases the risk they will degrade and be unusable for testing.OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Ella Parker
to lift Oklahoma to a 4-3 win over Tennessee on Thursday in the Women’s College World Series opener for both teams.Parker’s second homer of the game off Tennessee ace Karlyn Pickens came with two outs and strengthened the Sooners’ chances of winning a fifth straight national title.
“I wasn’t trying to make any moment too big,” Parker said. “I thought all the batters before that did a good job staying loose throughout the moment and not letting the moment get too big.”
Some fans thought the game was already over before Parker’s shot. That didn’t sit well with Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso.The European Broadcasting Union, or EBU, which runs Eurovision, tightened the contest’s code of conduct this year, calling on participants to respect Eurovision’s values of “universality, diversity, equality and inclusivity” and its political neutrality.
Eurovision director Martin Green told reporters that the organizers’ goal was to ”re-establish a sense of unity, calm and togetherness this year in a difficult world.” He said all 37 national delegations “have behaved impeccably.”Hilary Fox and Kwiyeon Ha in Basel, Maria Sherman in New York, Sylvia Hui in London, Stefanio Dazio in Berlin and Stephanie Liechtenstein in Vienna contributed to this report.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’shas beamed back pictures from its