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More than 400 international sailing delegates will gather in Qingdao, China from November 16 to 21 to shape the future of the sport, World Sailing announced on Wednesday, naming the city host of its Annual Conference and Awards.Qingdao, in Shandong Province, hosted the Olympic sailing competition at the 2008 Beijing Games and is known as China's sailing capital. World Sailing's president, Li Quanhai, is the first Chinese national to hold the role.The conference brings together delegates to discuss proposals, address challenges facing the sport and share suggestions for improvement at all levels.The World Sailing Awards, also part of the event, recognises athletes and those working to develop and innovate in sailing worldwide.Li Quanhai defeated incumbent Kim Andersen of Denmark by eight votes to become the first Chinese president of World Sailing. He is currently serving a second four-year term.’The Annual Conference is always a special occasion, one where the global sailing community is able to come together, discuss proposals, celebrate our successes and share suggestions to improve the experience for sailors at all levels while speaking openly about challenges facing the sport worldwide and create new opportunities for the growth,’ said World Sailing Chief Executive David Graham. Source link
Italian tennis player Lorenzo Musetti has pulled out of Wimbledon, it was announced on Wednesday. Italian Lorenzo Musetti pulled out of Wimbledon on Wednesday as he continued to recover from the thigh injury that meant the former world number five also missed the French Open.Musetti, who reached the Wimbledon semi-finals in 2024, has not played since he fell to Casper Ruud in the fourth round of the Italian Open in Rome in mid-May.”I want to update you on my recovery from the injury I sustained in Rome: rehabilitation is going very well and the medical results are encouraging,” the 24-year-old Musetti wrote on Instagram.”Unfortunately, as I have not yet been able to begin a full athletic training program, and after careful evaluation, we have come to the difficult conclusion that I will not be able to participate in Wimbledon this year.””It is not an easy decision, but it is the right one.” Related Story…
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The death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 72,049 martyrs in addition to 171,691 wounded since the start of the offensive on October 7, 2023.Medical sources reported today that four martyrs, whose bodies were recovered, and five wounded individuals arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals in the past 24 hours, while multiple victims remain trapped under rubble and in the streets, as rescue and ambulance crews have been unable to reach them.The same sources indicated that the total number of martyrs since the ceasefire on October 11 has risen to 591, and the total number of wounded to 1,583, while 724 bodies have been recovered. Source link
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A cyclone packing violent winds has killed at least 31 people in Madagascar’s second-largest city, ripping roofs off buildings, causing flooding and felling trees, the Indian Ocean island’s disaster authority said Wednesday, releasing an updated toll.Cyclone Gezani made landfall on Tuesday, slamming into the country’s second city Toamasina, with winds reaching 250 kilometres per hour.The National Office for Risk and Disaster Management (BNRGC) late Wednesday said it had recorded 31 deaths, many after houses had collapsed.Four people remained missing and at least 36 were seriously injured, it said, with over 250,000 people affected.”What happened is a disaster: nearly 75% of the city of Toamasina was destroyed,” said Madagascar’s new leader, Colonel Michael Randrianirina, who had travelled to Toamasina ahead of the cyclone’s landfall to support residents.”The current situation exceeds Madagascar’s capabilities alone,” said Randrianirina, who seized power in October, calling on “international partners and donors” to support the impoverished island.Drone footage shared by the BNRGC on social media showed major flooding in the east coast city of 400,000 people, about 220km northeast of the capital Antananarivo, with residents wading through water and roofs ripped off buildings.The city appeared battered, its streets littered with trees uprooted by the force of the cyclone.The storm also caused carnage in the Atsinanana region surrounding the city, the authority said, adding that post-disaster assessments were still under way.”It’s total chaos: 90% of house roofs have been blown off, entirely or in part,” said the head of disaster management at the Action Against Hunger humanitarian group, Rija Randrianarisoa.”The roads are completely inaccessible because of trees on the ground, sheet metal,” he told AFP.The CMRS cyclone forecaster on France’s Reunion island confirmed Tuesday that Toamasina had been “directly hit by the most intense part” of the storm.The cyclone’s landfall was likely one of the most intense recorded in the region during the satellite era, rivalling Geralda in February 1994, it said. That storm left at least 200 dead and affected half a million more.A Toamasina resident told AFP by telephone late Tuesday that the winds had collapsed solid walls. “It’s monstrous,” the resident added.Commercial flights to Toamasina airport were suspended except for humanitarian and military flights, airport management said.Fifteen members of the army’s civil protection unit were dispatched to assist with rescue operations, authorities announced.The cyclone weakened after landfall but continued to sweep across the island, posing the risk of flooding despite being downgraded to a tropical storm.It is forecast to return to cyclone status as it reaches the Mozambique Channel, according to the CMRS, and could from Friday evening strike southern Mozambique, which has already faced devastating flooding since the beginning of the year.Besides Geralda in 1994, Cyclone Gretelle, which killed 152 people and displaced 60,000 in 1997, and Gafilo, which left 241 dead and affected more than 300,000 others, have also been particularly deadly.More than 70% of houses in Madagascar are built from precarious materials such as clay, branches or foliage, according to the national statistical institute.Cyclone season in the southwest Indian Ocean typically lasts from November to April and sees around a dozen storms each year. Related Story Source link
