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Recent Examples of triathlonsErica Fox was a swimmer and triathlete who had done two half-Ironmans and numerous other triathlons and who for almost 20 years did an annual triathlon called Escape From Alcatraz, her father said.—Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 22 Dec. 2025
The stadium was built in 2003 with the potential to host soccer tournaments in mind.
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Elias Burke,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
San Diego’s two golf teams in NCAA tournaments played better Tuesday, but continued to be below the cutline entering Wednesday’s final qualifying rounds.
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Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 May 2026
Magazines — particularly ones that center fashion or elements of culture that have little to do with sports — have been go-to spaces for tennis stars looking to reach a broad audience and perhaps cast themselves as more than just athletes.
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Ava Wallace,
New York Times,
18 May 2026
Aston Martin was the first team on the grid to boast an official skin care partner, Elemis, and its extension beyond motorsport into the broader cultural and luxury ecosystem has landed team-ups with Swiss watch empire Breitling, sports juggernaut Puma and energy drink company Celsius.
Kids join travel teams, spending hours driving to competitions with other mini-athletes, and parents become super-parents, spending more hours with their children than in previous generations.
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Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
22 May 2026
From robot competitions to real-world testing The tea challenge is one of the real-world activities organized as part of the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games.
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Aditya Jadhav,
Interesting Engineering,
22 May 2026
In addition to men’s, women’s and senior amateur tourneys, check into the Frost Off event at Kennedy, the Elk Scat Scramble at Evergreen and the Master’s Scramble at Willis Case.
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Barbara Ellis,
Denver Post,
14 May 2026
But after entering the 2021 and 2022 play-in tourneys as the East’s 10th-place team, Charlotte was eliminated in the first game of both play-ins.
About 1,000 children with intellectual disabilities from 26 states and Canada who ranged in age from 8 to 18 gathered at Soldier Field in Chicago to compete in 200 events.
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Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2026
Three species of bats inhabit the site, and supernatural events—including the appearance of the gamekeeper’s ghost and the wail of a banshee—have been reported.
Policymakers also tend to recalibrate portfolios during bouts of market stress, with some selling reflecting tactical concerns about rising inflation and falling bond values — a move into cash-like assets to ensure liquidity should intervention needs escalate, Neumann said.
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Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
Holloway has never fought at welterweight, competing at featherweight and lightweight in all 36 of his career bouts.
Its teams play 38 games each per season and its latest domestic broadcast deal was worth $9 billion, at current exchange rates, over a four-year period.
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James Robson,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2026
Through the first two games of the Western Conference Finals, Spurs star Victor Wembanyama has produced numbers not seen at this stage of the postseason in roughly 50 years.