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Faith Kipyegon: from walking to school in rural Kenya to setting world athletics alight

All eyes are on Faith Kipyegon at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. That’s because the Kenyan 1,500 metre and 5,000 metre star broke three world records in less than two months on her way to Hungary.

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Hungary's Orbán to host Turkish, Serbian and other leaders alongside world track championships

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will hold bilateral meetings in the coming days with the leaders of Turkey, Serbia, Qatar and a host of Central Asian nations, a sign of the European country’s continuing drift toward the Eastern sphere of influence

The Independent UK

Katarina Johnson-Thompson believes heptathlon world title is there for taking

Johnson-Thompson opens her heptathlon campaign in Hungary on Saturday.

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Javelin thrower Jena gets visa appointment with Hungarian embassy; could still compete at Worlds

The Athletics Federation of India, in an update, said, “Thanks to all. Javelin thrower Kishore Kumar Jena has appointment at Hungary embassy tomorrow at 9am.” The Odisha athlete’s visa was earlier cancelled by the Hungarian embassy rendering him a doubtful starter at the marquee athletics event slated to be held…

The Hindu

Why 2023’s most unpredictable series is a refreshing tonic

Formula 1 races this year have become an exercise in inevitability. Even if Max Verstappen is beaten to pole, or is bumped down the grid by a penalty as in Spa, it seems only a matter of time until he gets to the front. Red Bull’s reign of dominance has…

Autosport

Neeraj Chopra urges MEA to fix javelin thrower Kishore Jena's visa issues to enable his participation in World C'ships

Indian Olympic gold medalist javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra on Thursday urged Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar to resolve the visa issues of athlete Kishore Jena to enable him to take part in the World Athletics Championships, which will be held in Budapest, Hungary this year. Read further on Dynamite…

Dynamite News

Are Europeans really democrats?

In France, the year 2022 saw the government repeatedly resort to Article 49.3 of the constitution to force unpopular reforms through parliament. The date of 16 March, in particular, marked the 100th time under France’s Fifth Republic that the executive chose to use these special powers. With this in mind,…

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Track world championships the latest play by Orbán's Hungary for global sports spotlight

A country spends millions to deliver a major international sports event to the world

The Independent UK

Melbourne 1956: The Suez Crisis, the Hungarian Uprising and Olympic boycotts

1956 was one of the most turbulent years in the post-war era. Over a period of 12 months, the world witnessed the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Budapest uprising, the Poznan revolt, the Suez affair and the Algerian war among other events. The Melbourne…

Radio France Internationale

World Championships: Lotte Kopecky wins elite women's road race

Belgian attacks on final lap to win ahead of Demi Vollering and Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig

Cycling News

Horner: Ricciardo has "met all expectations" on F1 comeback

Ricciardo, who was Red Bull's third driver after his McLaren exit, was drafted in at Red Bull's sister team to replace Nyck de Vries from Hungary.

Autosport

American Jewish Groups Downplay Visa Waiver Program Risks To Israel

Questions over whether Washington's entry rules would put Israel's security at risk loom as the deadline approaches.

Zenger

World Athletics Championships: Tajinderpal Toor, Tejaswin Shankar to miss out

Asian shot-put champion Tajinderpal Singh Toor and Commonwealth Games medalist high jumper Tejaswin Shankar will skip the upcoming World Athletics Championships, which will be held in Budapest, Hungary from August 19 to 27. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Volunteers head off plastic waste crisis by removing tons of rubbish from Hungarian river

Thousands of muddy plastic bottles and other waterlogged pieces of rubbish are piled onto a flatbed trailer on the banks of the Tisza River in Hungary — a metric ton of waste that was removed by hand from the waterway and its floodplain in a single day

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Conservative calls for women to have more babies hide pernicious motives

Boosting birthrates to protect racial identity has a long and shameful history

The Times of India

Four Indian javelin throwers qualify for World C'ships but not all going as one is injured

NEW DELHI: In a rare instance in Indian athletics, four men's javelin throwers from the country have qualified for the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, later this month, but injury to one member of the quartet meant that all of them will not take part in the big-ticket event.

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Olympic star Nadia Comăneci was a Romanian 'hero' who defected to escape her government. What do her surveillance files reveal?

“On the night of 27–28 November 1989,” Stejărel Olaru writes, “seven people hurriedly but warily made their way towards the frontier between Romania and Hungary.”

The Independent UK

US imposes travel restrictions on Hungarian passport holders over ‘security concerns’

The United States is imposing travel restrictions on citizens of Hungary over concerns that the identities of nearly 1 million foreigners granted Hungarian passports over nine years were not sufficiently verified

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US restricts visa-free travel for Hungarian passport holders, citing security concerns

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Revealed: The cheapest pints of beer in Europe - with some for less than £1

With Brits paying north of a fiver for a pint, is it time to leave the country?

The Independent UK

To wrap, or not to wrap? Hungarian bookstores face fines over closed packaging for LGBTQ+ books

Booksellers in Hungary must decide whether to comply with a law requiring books that depict homosexuality to be placed in closed packaging on their shelves

The Times of India

Women's 4x400m, mixed relay teams may miss Worlds

BENGALURU: India's women's 4x400m relay team and mixed relay squads may miss the World Athletics Championships beginning in Budapest, Hungary, on August 19 but for any last-minute miracles before the World Athletics' (WA) deadline ends on Sunday.

Zenger

Funeral Takes Place For Holocaust Survivor David ‘Dugo’ Leitner, 94

David “Dugo” Leitner was born in Hungary in 1930 to his parents, Meir and Golda Leah, and raised in an Orthodox home

Autosport

Belgian GP: F1 technical images from the pitlane explained

Alpine has two different front wing configurations at its disposal in Belgium, the one with the wavy trailing edge first seen in Hungary (bottom) and their lower downforce variant (top).

Motorsport

Vasseur: Ferrari “pushing like hell” to close gap to F1 rivals

Ferrari has slipped back in the last two events, with the two cars finishing ninth and 10th at Silverstone, and seventh and eighth in Hungary last weekend.

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