Budapest, Aug 28 (Ians) Stars like sprinter Noah Lyles and pole vaulter Armand Duplantis and long-distance runner Faith Kipyegon showcased their abilities as the World Athletics Championships concluded here on Sunday, with the United States emerging as the biggest winner.
The tournament, consisting of 49 events, unfolded over nine scorching days in Budapest. The U.S. team secured an impressive 29 medals, including 12 gold. Their dominance extended beyond sprint races, as they also held a firm grip on throwing events.
In the men’s 4x100m relay final on Saturday, the 26-year-old Lyles delivered a sensational fourth-leg run, clinching three gold medals and solidifying his position as the Championships’ most prolific athlete, reports Xinhua.
On Friday, Lyles clinched his third consecutive world title in the 200m event, becoming the first man since Jamaican legend Usain Bolt in 2015 to achieve the 100m and 200m double at the World Championships.
Lyles’ teammates also shone: Ryan Crouser...
The tournament, consisting of 49 events, unfolded over nine scorching days in Budapest. The U.S. team secured an impressive 29 medals, including 12 gold. Their dominance extended beyond sprint races, as they also held a firm grip on throwing events.
In the men’s 4x100m relay final on Saturday, the 26-year-old Lyles delivered a sensational fourth-leg run, clinching three gold medals and solidifying his position as the Championships’ most prolific athlete, reports Xinhua.
On Friday, Lyles clinched his third consecutive world title in the 200m event, becoming the first man since Jamaican legend Usain Bolt in 2015 to achieve the 100m and 200m double at the World Championships.
Lyles’ teammates also shone: Ryan Crouser...
- 8/28/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Budapest, Aug 24 (Ians) Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou clinched the men’s long jump title with a tremendous last jump at the World Athletics Championships.
Heading into the sixth and last attempt on Thursday final, Tentoglou and Jamaica’s Pinnock had both jumped an impressive 8.50m. However, the Greek athlete’s second-best result was just 1cm behind Pinnock’s 8.40m, placing him in second position, Xinhua reports.
Tentoglou, coming in second in the previous year’s World Championships, delivered his final jump with unwavering determination, achieving a season-best of 8.52m, out of Pinnock’s reach.
“The only gold medal I missed is now mine,” Tentoglou remarked. “It was a great competition, a great battle, better than last year. Now I’m going to defend all my titles.”
Last year’s defending champion, Wang Jianan, who narrowly defeated Tentoglou with his final jump, had an off day on Thursday. The 26-year-old Chinese...
Heading into the sixth and last attempt on Thursday final, Tentoglou and Jamaica’s Pinnock had both jumped an impressive 8.50m. However, the Greek athlete’s second-best result was just 1cm behind Pinnock’s 8.40m, placing him in second position, Xinhua reports.
Tentoglou, coming in second in the previous year’s World Championships, delivered his final jump with unwavering determination, achieving a season-best of 8.52m, out of Pinnock’s reach.
“The only gold medal I missed is now mine,” Tentoglou remarked. “It was a great competition, a great battle, better than last year. Now I’m going to defend all my titles.”
Last year’s defending champion, Wang Jianan, who narrowly defeated Tentoglou with his final jump, had an off day on Thursday. The 26-year-old Chinese...
- 8/25/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Budapest (Hungary), Aug 24 (Ians) Spain swept the four titles of the race walking at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest as Alvaro Martin and Maria Perez both doubled their victories here on Thursday.
Just as he did in the men’s 20km race last Saturday, Martin accelerated with 5km to go, but this time he had to battle for the leading position with Brian Daniel Pintado of Ecuador.
The 29-year-old Spaniard kept his pace with a strong finish, clinching the 35km title in a personal best and national record of 2 hours 24 minutes 30 seconds, reports Xinhua.
Pintado was four seconds behind to grab the silver medal while Tomohiro Noda, runner-up at last year’s World Championships, added a bronze to his medal collection in 2:25:50.
“In the last kilometre I had to push hard because I was so tired and Pintado was so close,” said Martin. “It was a tougher...
Just as he did in the men’s 20km race last Saturday, Martin accelerated with 5km to go, but this time he had to battle for the leading position with Brian Daniel Pintado of Ecuador.
The 29-year-old Spaniard kept his pace with a strong finish, clinching the 35km title in a personal best and national record of 2 hours 24 minutes 30 seconds, reports Xinhua.
Pintado was four seconds behind to grab the silver medal while Tomohiro Noda, runner-up at last year’s World Championships, added a bronze to his medal collection in 2:25:50.
“In the last kilometre I had to push hard because I was so tired and Pintado was so close,” said Martin. “It was a tougher...
- 8/24/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Lausanne (Switzerland), Aug 7 (Ians) World Athletics, the governing body for track and field on Monday ratified World Records set this season by Kenyan Faith Kipyegon in women’s 1500m and 5000m and Ethiopian Lamecha Girma in men’s 3000m steeplechase.
Also ratified was the World Record in the non-Olympic Games event, the women’s 35km race walk, by Maria Perez of Spain.
Kenya’s Kipyegon has achieved three world records since June and two of those marks – in the women’s 1500m and 5000m have now been officially included in the record books. Her women’s mile record set in Monaco on July 21 is pending ratification.
The first of Kipyegon’s world records was set at the Golden Gala, a Wanda Diamond League meeting, in Florence on June 2. On that occasion, the two-time world and Olympic champion ran 3:49.11 to break the women’s world 1500m record of 3:50.07 that...
Also ratified was the World Record in the non-Olympic Games event, the women’s 35km race walk, by Maria Perez of Spain.
Kenya’s Kipyegon has achieved three world records since June and two of those marks – in the women’s 1500m and 5000m have now been officially included in the record books. Her women’s mile record set in Monaco on July 21 is pending ratification.
The first of Kipyegon’s world records was set at the Golden Gala, a Wanda Diamond League meeting, in Florence on June 2. On that occasion, the two-time world and Olympic champion ran 3:49.11 to break the women’s world 1500m record of 3:50.07 that...
- 8/7/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Ulrich Seidl took top honors Saturday for “Rimini” at Spain’s 60th Gijón-Xixón Film Festival, having hit back at German magazine Der Spiegel’s allegations of impropriety and child exploitation on the set of “Sparta,” “Rimini’s” companion piece.
World premiering at the Berlin Festival, “Rimini,” a “riveting, upsetting Ulrich Seidl slow-burn electrified by a stunning central turn,” said Variety, follows washed up crooner Richie Bravo (Michael Thomas) who is suddenly opportune for money by his estranged daughter.
“Sparta” focuses on Richie’s wayward brother, Eward, who buys an abandoned school in Romania’s Transylvania, converting it into a compound called Sparta where he teaches young children self-defence. That provides a chance for him to photograph them in undress.
Also Germany’s biggest news website, Der Spiegel alleged that Seidl did not reveal “Sparta’s” focus on pedophilia to its young non-pro actors, aged 9-16, nor to their guardians, and...
World premiering at the Berlin Festival, “Rimini,” a “riveting, upsetting Ulrich Seidl slow-burn electrified by a stunning central turn,” said Variety, follows washed up crooner Richie Bravo (Michael Thomas) who is suddenly opportune for money by his estranged daughter.
“Sparta” focuses on Richie’s wayward brother, Eward, who buys an abandoned school in Romania’s Transylvania, converting it into a compound called Sparta where he teaches young children self-defence. That provides a chance for him to photograph them in undress.
Also Germany’s biggest news website, Der Spiegel alleged that Seidl did not reveal “Sparta’s” focus on pedophilia to its young non-pro actors, aged 9-16, nor to their guardians, and...
- 11/20/2022
- by Pablo Sandoval
- Variety Film + TV
Paramount+ has set September 16 as the premiere date for the coming-of-age reality series, My Dream Quinceañera, based on AwesomenessTV’s most-viewed-ever YouTube series of the same name. The season will kick off with the release of the series’ first three episodes, followed by a weekly release of the season’s remaining 7 episodes.
The 10-episode season follows the drama-filled lives of three Southern Californian teens – Bayle Delgado, Romi Herrada, and Angelica Luna – as they prepare to celebrate the coming-of-age birthday parties of their dreams. The trio will count on help from expert quinceañera planner Maria Perez, a first for the series.
Additionally, AwesomenessTV will also debut a special short-form episode, My Dream Quinceañera: Never Too Late, that will follow the story of a trans woman, Juliet, who was never given the opportunity for a quinceañera at age 15 and finally gets to experience her quince later in life as her true self.
The 10-episode season follows the drama-filled lives of three Southern Californian teens – Bayle Delgado, Romi Herrada, and Angelica Luna – as they prepare to celebrate the coming-of-age birthday parties of their dreams. The trio will count on help from expert quinceañera planner Maria Perez, a first for the series.
Additionally, AwesomenessTV will also debut a special short-form episode, My Dream Quinceañera: Never Too Late, that will follow the story of a trans woman, Juliet, who was never given the opportunity for a quinceañera at age 15 and finally gets to experience her quince later in life as her true self.
- 8/23/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Two on-the-rise directors, Maria Perez Sanz (“Karen”) and Maddi Barber (“Land Underwater”), have signed on to direct episodes in “Present,” a singular exploration by Spain’s Garde of a new generation of women artists, both cineastes and writers, who broke out last decade.
Part of a broader literary-film project, “This Is Not a Poem” (“Esto no es una poesía”), “Present” (“Presentes”) is being introduced to potential co-producers and distributors by Garde founder Cristina Hergueta at Locarno’s Match Me, a networking forum which kicked off Aug. 6.
Perez Sanz will bring to the screen a text written by Cristina Morales, winner of Spain’s 2019 National Narrative Prize for “Lectura Facil.” Barber will create a film from a poem by Maria Sanchez, whose first book of poetry, “Cuaderno de campo,” was published in 2017, and has quickly run through multiple editions.
Both Perez Sanz and Barber’s films are conceived as part of...
Part of a broader literary-film project, “This Is Not a Poem” (“Esto no es una poesía”), “Present” (“Presentes”) is being introduced to potential co-producers and distributors by Garde founder Cristina Hergueta at Locarno’s Match Me, a networking forum which kicked off Aug. 6.
Perez Sanz will bring to the screen a text written by Cristina Morales, winner of Spain’s 2019 National Narrative Prize for “Lectura Facil.” Barber will create a film from a poem by Maria Sanchez, whose first book of poetry, “Cuaderno de campo,” was published in 2017, and has quickly run through multiple editions.
Both Perez Sanz and Barber’s films are conceived as part of...
- 8/8/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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