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Those locks have since been chopped, and White is now an elder statesman for the sport, hobbling into his fifth Olympics after a season marred by an ankle injury, a bout with COVID-19, a late unscheduled trip to Switzerland to secure his Olympic spot and, most recently, a training plan that got thrown off schedule during his stay in Colorado in January.
“We will reevaluate and examine all policies, guidelines and initiatives relating to diversity, equity and inclusion, including as they relate to gender,” Goodell wrote in a memo to the league’s 32 clubs that was obtained by The Associated Press.
“The allegations that, following a physical altercation with the victim’s boyfriend, Mr. Grant decided to follow the victim, who was thirty-six-weeks pregnant, and open fire on a major roadway are unconscionable,” said DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin. “Thankfully, no innocent motorists were injured and, while still hospitalized, Mr. Grant’s alleged target and her baby are expected to survive. This defendant’s alleged violent behavior put the motoring public at risk and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
After Eric Frenzel, a three-time gold medalist in Nordic combined, tested positive, German delegation head Dirk Schimmelpfennig lambasted the “unreasonable” living conditions. Germany wants larger, more hygienic rooms, and more regular food deliveries so athletes who are eventually released are still fit to compete, Schimmelpfennig said in comments reported by the FAZ newspaper.
Authorities later found more than $2.1 million in merchandise from Victoria’s Secret, American Eagle, Michael Kors, Sephora, Foot Locker and other retailers in the couple’s home and in rented storage units, prosecutors said. More than $20,000 in cash was allegedly found in their home.
“That’s one of my favorite stories,” Williamson said in a Tribune interview. “They had to go down South and couldn’t stay in the same hotel. Socially, that obviously bothers me. It doesn’t make sense. But from a basketball standpoint, there are so many things we need to do as a team when we go on the road — watching film, team meals, not to mention team bonding, just hanging out. It’s crazy they had to stay in different places.”
Russian athlete Natalia Nepryaeva, the current overall World Cup leader, pulled away from the group on the last climb to take silver, 30.2 seconds behind Johaug. Nepryaeva is competing in her second Olympics. She won bronze in a relay race at the Pyeongchang Games.
Chicago Cubs third baseman Patrick Wisdom, right, looks at the home plate umpire after being called out on strikes to end the second inning of the second game of a doubleheader against the Colorado Rockies at Wrigley Field on Aug. 25, 2021. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)
Motorists wait to buy gas at a Costco station on Feb. 4, 2022, in Chicago. In addition to forgoing an inflation-based increase in the gas tax, slated to kick in July 1 and estimated at 2.2 cents per gallon, Pritzker’s proposal would pause the 1% sales tax on groceries for a year and give a one-time property tax rebate to homeowners. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)
The first few years Keith Maciszek decorated his Evergreen Park house in Bengal orange and black, it got vandalized. After eight or nine years, “people started understanding we’re not going anywhere,” he said. In the last few years, people wish him good luck. (Melinda Moore / Daily Southtown)