Nicola Adams on overcoming adversity, winning gold and the joys of motherhood

Travel blog by Travels of Adam (Hipster Blog) – Travels of Adam (Hipster Blog) - Travel & Lifestyle Hipster Blog Paris is one of those cities you’ll find on many a person’s bucket list. The weather in the city is hot, but not unbearably so. The geography places it on the doorstep of several European countries, whose citizens can, in just a couple of hours or more after taking off, be landing on Parisian soil.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Bridgerton” author Julia Quinn has taken to social media to address upset fans of the Netflix series following the Season 3 finale, which included a dramatic change from Quinn’s novels in gender-flipping Francesca Bridgerton’s love interest. While Season 3 was primarily devoted to the blossoming romance between friends Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan), it also tracked the courtship of Francesca (Hannah Dodd) by John Stirling, Earl of Kilmartin (Victor Alli).

Snoop Dogg has run a 200m race at the United States’ team trials for the 2024 Summer Olympics.The race was a mock trial, with Snoop joining the run for fun. For the mock race, Snoop Dogg was up against four-time Olympic medalist Ato Bolden and 200 meter specialist Wallace Spearmon.Decked out in a t-shirt featuring late NBA legend Kobe Bryant, Snoop placed third, clocking a timing of 34.44 seconds, while Bolden clocked in at 16.90.

Organizers of the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games on Friday unveiled its first batch of updates to its venue plan for the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles. The biggest moves including earmarking SoFi Stadium in Inglewood to become the largest-ever Olympics venue for swimming; setting Crypto.com Arena to host gymnastics, replacing the Forum; the Los Angeles Clippers’ soon-to-open home Intuit Dome to host basketball; and moving BMX, skateboarding and archery competitions north to the San Fernando Valley.

request for arbitration with World Aquatics, the governing body in swimming and diving events, effectively dashing any hope she had of competing in the Olympics or elite global competitions, reports The New York Times.The Lausanne, Switzerland-based international body, established to settle disputes related to elite sporting competitions, ruled that Thomas did not have standing to bring the case because she was not a member of its member federation — USA Swimming — prior to bringing her challenge.Thomas had also not competed in female events “for the purpose of qualification or selection” for World Aquatics competitions, such as the Olympics or world championships.Technically, NCAA meets, like those Thomas competed in, are not governed by World Aquatics, even though the college sporting organization has adopted a policy of deferring to individual sporting bodies to determine athlete eligibility.Thomas first began transitioning in May 2019 when she began hormone replacement therapy. She swam for the University of Pennsylvania’s men’s team over a three-year period from 2017 to 2020.By the fall of 2020, she met what were, at the time, the NCAA’s hormone therapy requirements for competing in female sports.

Access Hollywood” and its companion “Access Daily with Mario & Kit” for two additional seasons, through 2026. “We’re thrilled to continue our successful partnership with the NBC-owned stations, bringing the ‘Access’ brand to local stations for additional seasons,” said Tracie Wilson, vice president of NBCUniversal Syndication Studios and E! News. “Our talented hosts have incredible chemistry and our seasoned production team works tirelessly to bring viewers quality content each day on ‘Access Hollywood ‘and ‘Access Daily.’” “‘Access Hollywood’ and ‘Access Daily’ deliver engaging and entertaining content to our audiences, which has made them an indelible part of our NBC stations’ lineups,” said chief marketing officer and executive vice president of acquired programming at NBCUniversal Local Therese Gamba.

UK drama The Gathering was the big winner at the Golden Nymph Awards, which were announced at the closing ceremony of the Monte Carlo TV Festival.

s latest looks on the set of , her upcoming movie with and Chris Evans, are pure summer-style inspiration. After all, the streets of New York are the ideal place to surprise us with a variety of looks.The actor’s style in the movie could be defined as the perfect mix of trendy and basic—a combination that she usually achieves with outfits that have the right balance between style, comfort, and a touch of city-girl cool. Think: floral dresses, and many (many) sneakers.If we think about it, this style decision makes all the sense in the world; New York is, without a doubt, .

Annika Pham In a clear move toward commercial fare, Spain’s boutique production house Señor y Señora, present this week at Madrid’s ECAM Forum with Pedro Hernando’s work in progress “A Whale,” is lining up its biggest slate ever. | Heading the outfit’s scripted lineup is “Karateka,” Señor y Señora co-founder Aritz Moreno’s third feature after his EFA nominated breakthrough debut “Advantages of Travelling by Train” and dark thriller “Moscas” which bowed at Sitges and Rotterdam. Budgeted at over €6 million ($6.5 million), “Karateka” tells the larger-than-life story of Spanish karate queen and Olympic gold medallist Sandra Sánchez.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent French shark movie “Under Paris” made a sneak attack on worldwide streaming last week, scoring the best launch for a non-English language film on Netflix with 41 million views in its five first days on the service. Dropping a month before the start of the summer Olympics in Paris, the movie about triathlon athletes who get devoured during a swimming race in the Seine river ranked first on Netflix’s top 10 for non-English language films across 93 countries.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent It’s shaping up to be a big summer for Max in France. Warner Bros. Discovery’s standalone streaming service is finally launching on Tuesday in France and Belgium with a splashy lineup, including “House of the Dragon” Season 2 and coverage of the upcoming Olympic Games starting on July 26.

William Earl administrator Horror author Paul Tremblay developed a deep love of spooky stories early on, and he tackles the haunted films genre with his newest novel, “Horror Movie” (out Tuesday via William Morrow and Company). The plot concerns a ’90s cult classic horror movie which left all but one cast member dead and the dark stories that are dredged up as a remake comes closer to reality. Professionally, Tremblay is no stranger to scary movies, as his 2019 novel “The Cabin at the End of the World” was adapted into M.

Manchester United fan and Olympic icon Usain Bolt has explained why he'd rather Man City win the title ahead of Arsenal - and boldly suggested the Red Devils had a better season than the Gunners.

Faster, higher, stronger – and popcorn. That’s what’s on tap at movie theaters across the country this summer.

Louis Smith has revealed that his girlfriend, Charlie Bruce, is pregnant with the couple's second child. The retired Olympic gymnast, 35, who welcomed his first child with Charlie in February 2021, is no stranger to fatherhood as he is set to welcome his second child.Taking to his Instagram, Louis shared to his 120k followers the good news, captioning the post of the baby scan and a cheery family photo: "It’s so nice we had to do it twice." The comments section was an outpouring field of love as celebrity pals flocked in with the well wishes.

Naman Ramachandran Nicola Coughlan, Nonso Anozie and Jessica Gunning have joined the cast of the upcoming adaptation of Enid Blyton‘s “The Magic Faraway Tree.” Coughlan (“Bridgerton”) will portray the woodland fairy Silky, joined by Anozie (“Ted Lasso”) as Moonface. Gunning (“Baby Reindeer”) takes on the role of Dame Washalot, with Dustin Demri-Burns (“Slow Horses”) as Saucepan Man. Mark Heap (“Friday Night Dinner”) will play Mr.

Hunter Ingram After “The Morning Show” began its third season last fall, showrunner Charlotte Stoudt received a text message from “a very well-known anchor on a national news network” with some constructive criticism. This unnamed person had seen Episode 3, in which June Diane Raphael makes her debut as the anchor of Eagle News, a fictional conservative news network that is seen reporting on an internal scandal at UBA, the network that employs Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon’s characters. With a smile on her face, Raphael’s anchor reads incriminating emails sent by the UBA board president (Holland Taylor).

The second episode of the Great British Sewing Bee got off to a brilliant start, when our favourite amateur sewers were tasked with taking on a series of sport-inspired challenges with a distinctive Olympic flair. During the show, the contestants were tasked with creating a half-zip fleece, an outfit made from repurposed cricket kit and a national strip fit for the world stage.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic If you want to know how the definition of “scandal” has changed with the decades, you couldn’t do much better than to see “Taking Venice,” Amei Wallach’s highly enjoyable and revealing documentary about a legendary uproar in the art world. The film chronicles what happened at the 1964 Venice Biennale — the exhibition of contemporary art, held every two years, that culminates in the awarding of an esteemed grand prize. At the time, the Biennale was considered to be a kind of art-world equivalent of the Olympic Games.

Todd Longwell A significant portion of the Spanish-language programming made for Latin American audiences in the U.S. emanates from a single place in Miami — Telemundo Center.