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@JennyMeadows800 @ed800m @keelyhodgkinson @Faster_feet Brilliant, brilliant job Jenny and Trevor

@ed800m @keelyhodgkinson @Faster_feet Thank you! We had planned meticulously so were confident, however you are always hoping it all goes to plan

Wonderful to watch @keelyhodgkinson & Georgia Hunter Bell execute their race plans to win the 800m and 1500m at the World Indoor Champs last night with dominant finishes. They looked confident and ready to enjoy the moment. Well Done @Faster_feet @JennyMeadows800 & all the team.

#BBCNews has justified their constant coverage of Reform UK Ltd by saying they're leading the polls & likely to form the next govt. Shouldn't that also apply to scrutiny of their alleged tax avoidance, money laundering, foreign influence, racism, etc? #politicslive #bbcqt

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Crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne gave Reform UK £12m last year. Nearly two thirds of the party’s £18.8m in donations. Farage’s outfit is not a grassroots movement. It is a political project bankrolled by one billionaire.

A message to the new DG Please get rid of these two as quickly as you can they have poisoned @BBCNews @BBCPolitics Then you can dig a little deeper and restore the gravitas

Brexit cost this country £180 billion a year in lost economic output, enough to build 140 new hospitals every single year. The people who did it are now asking for your vote again. #Brexit #NigelFarage #ReformUK

@OscarGreta1846 Guess which front page @BBCNews didn't display on their roundup today?

1982 and a packed Wembley Stadium turned out to watch England Schoolboys draw 0-0 with Scotland Schoolboys.

Gout Gout was at Ipswich Grammar School to play soccer. He had never trained as a sprinter. He was twelve years old, wearing sand shoes, and somebody told him to line up for a race at the school carnival. The kid next to him was wearing spikes. He had won nationals. Gout left him in the dust. His classmate Tyson Walker was in the race too. "Everyone there stopped and watched," Walker recalled. "We had GPS athletics the next week and he broke every record and just didn't stop. He's just kept going faster." A coach named Di Sheppard saw him run that day. She told him he could be an Olympic medalist. He later said it was the first time anyone had ever told him anything like that. He was twelve. He joined her squad and started training twice a week. Here is where the story gets strange. At 14 he ran 10.57 in the 100m, the fastest ever by an Australian under 16. At 15 he broke the national U18 200m record. At 16 he clocked 10.04 in a heat, then 10.17 legal in the final, then woke up the next morning and ran 20.04 in the 200m, breaking Peter Norman's Australian record from the 1968 Olympics. That record had stood for 56 years. Usain Bolt saw the footage, posted a photo, and wrote "He looks like young me." The Bolt comparison is worth sitting with. Bolt didn't race 100 meters professionally until he was 21. His first professional 100m was 10.03. Gout Gout ran 10.00 flat at 18. And his coach still only puts him in the gym two days a week. She's managing the fact that his body is still growing. The power phase of his development hasn't started. He is running these times on stride length and raw top-end speed alone. His parents are Dinka, from South Sudan. They fled to Egypt, then to Australia, two years before he was born. Third of seven children. The family name was misspelled during transliteration from Arabic. It was supposed to be Guot. His father has been trying to change it back because "gout" is a disease name. The kid kept running. Brisbane 2032. Home Olympics. He'll be 24, the same age Bolt was when he set the 100m world record in Berlin. Adidas already signed him through that year. The fastest man in Australian history started in sand shoes at a school carnival. Nobody told him to stop.

May 16, 1963. Gordon Cooper was orbiting Earth alone inside a capsule barely big enough to turn around in, moving at 17,500 miles per hour. He had been up there for over a day. Then the warnings started. First a faulty sensor screaming that the ship was falling — it wasn't. He switched it off. Then something far worse: a short circuit knocked out the entire automated guidance system. The one that kept the capsule steady. The one that was supposed to bring him home. Without it, reentry was nearly impossible. Too shallow an angle and the capsule would bounce off the atmosphere back into space. Too steep and it would incinerate. The margin for error was razor thin — and every computer that was supposed to hit that margin was dead. Down on the ground, NASA engineers watched the telemetry in silence. They could see everything going wrong. They could fix nothing. Cooper didn't panic. He uncapped a grease pencil and drew lines directly on the inside of his window to track the horizon. He looked up at the stars he had spent months memorizing and used their positions to orient the ship by eye. Then he set his wristwatch. Because when you have no computers left, you become the computer. At exactly the right moment — calculated in his head, confirmed by the stars outside — he fired the retrorockets. The capsule shook. The sky turned to fire. For several minutes, no one on Earth could reach him as plasma swallowed the ship whole. Then the parachutes opened. Faith 7 hit the water just four miles from the recovery ship — the single most accurate splashdown in the entire Mercury program. The man with a wristwatch and a few pencil marks on a window had outperformed every automated system NASA had. We talk a lot about technology saving us. And it often does. But Cooper's story is a quiet reminder that behind every machine, there still has to be a human being who can look out the window, think clearly under pressure, and decide what to do next. The final backup was never the software. It was him.

The League Cup Finals Of The 1970s All The Goals.

If you want Baroness Michelle Mone removed from the House of Lords and to repay the £136,000,000 owed to taxpayers, please RT!

Emotions that don't exist in English: Sonder (German) The realization that every stranger you pass has a life as vivid and complex as your own Mono no aware (Japanese) The gentle sadness of knowing everything beautiful is temporary and loving it more because it will not last Merak (Serbian) A deep sense of contentment found in small moments. Shared laughter, warm light and feeling fully present Iktsuarpok (Inuit) The restless anticipation that makes you keep checking the door, waiting for someone who has not arrived yet Toska (Russian) A quiet heavy ache with no clear cause. A sadness that settles in and refuses to explain itself Forelsket (Norwegian) The euphoric rush of falling in love, before reality has a chance to interrupt it Kilig (Tagalog, Philippines) The sudden flutter in your chest when affection catches you off guard, a warmth that arrives before logic does Hiraeth (Welsh) A deep longing for a home that no longer exists, or maybe never did. A homesickness for a feeling rather than a place

Sending al the good vibes. COYR.

PET/CT scan day ⁦@royalmarsdenNHS⁩ to see if the latest treatment is working. Vikki is still here with me.

Brilliant commentary too from Barry Davies. Everything you want. Nothing you don't.

🗓️ It was on this day in 1977 that super sub David Fairclough bagged that famous late winner against Saint-Étienne A legendary moment in LFC history

Imagine a player who is so good that at the age of 29, he has 3 FIFA world cups in his name. They called him ‘O Rei’—King. Long before Messi and Ronaldo, Pelé was the real mistake in the system. He is a 5’8” powerhouse who can jump over the central defender, the winger runs faster and more skilled than everyone else. He has no sports science or modern throwing—he only has a ball and a dream that changes the sport forever. 1,281 goals, 3 World Cups and a legacy that will never be touched.

When Carl Jung said: “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you.”

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago: “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”