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Seoul, South Korea — South Korea’s military said Thursday that North Korea fired projectiles from the western part of the country into the sea. The U.S. tracked three short-range ballistic missiles, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reported.  It marked the second North Korea launch in just five days. The North fired several projectiles from its…

Jerusalem — Israeli police shot and killed a 16-year-old Palestinian near the West Bank separation barrier on Friday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, while in Jerusalem’s Old City, an alleged Palestinian attacker was killed after stabbing and injuring two Israelis, according to Israeli police. The outbreak of violence came as tens of thousands of worshippers…

The 40th birthday of Ironman was always going to be a special race, and so it proved with the Kona debut of Javier Gomez, course records broken, emotional stories of redemption and some heavyweights showdowns between the world’s greatest long-course athletes. Advertisement Grabbing the headlines in the men’s elite event was Patrick Lange, who broke…

1941  Minneapolis, Minnesota: – Bronko Nagurski won the National Wrestling Association World Heavyweight Title from Ray Steele 1952  San Francisco, California:  – Hombre Montana defeated Mike Sharpe to win the San Francisco NWA Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title 1963 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: – Mitsu Arakawa and Kinji Shibuya defeated Gene Kiniski and Mr. X for…

Click:cnc routerHong Kong – Police here fired tear gas, pepper spray and high-pressure water hoses against protesters who had massed outside government headquarters Wednesday to oppose a government plan to allow extraditions to China. The bill has become a lightning rod for concerns over greater Chinese control and erosion of civil liberties in the semiautonomous…

Paratriathletes Lauren Steadman and Alison Patrick have both won gold at the Buffalo City ITU World Paratriathlon Event,  gaining automatic qualification for the Paralympics in Rio Advertisement  Steadman, 23, won the PT4 category and has now qualified for her third Paralympic Games, having competed twice before as a swimmer. She said: “The top women weren’t…

The panelists, including Nicole Sapstead (CEO UK Anti-Doping), Kelly Sotherton (Olympic medalist) Wendy Martinson OBE (nutritionist to elite sport) and Chris Fisher, Head of Healthspan Elite (a supplier of high-quality vitamins and supplements) debated the use of performance enhancing drugs in athletics and the issues facing the sport ahead of the Rio. Panel members discussed the alternatives for…

Julian was a formidable athlete, breaking and holding British triathlon records back in the 1990s, and forging a path for British athletes at Ironman Hawaii.  Advertisement “He was not just a formidable cyclist but an all round swimmer, cyclist and runner and always had a smile and time to talk before or after he’d raced….

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For the first time ever four branches of multisport are coming together in one world championship, the  ITU Multisport World Championship Festival, which will take place August 18-27 2017 in Penticton, British Columbia. Advertisement  The 10-day event will see 5,000 athletes compete in four separate World Championships – duathlon, aquathlon, cross triathlon & long distance…