The new year has begun in much the same way as the old one ended: with predictions that Russia could invade Ukraine before the snow melts. Behind these as-yet-unfulfilled prophecies, however, are some fairly shaky assumptions. There are two factors behind any potential threat: capability and intention. There is little …
Read More »‘Next level of extraordinary’: All-conquering Russian artistic swimmers make it SIXTH Olympics clean sweep with Tokyo team gold
Heading into Tokyo, Russian swimmers had won gold in both the duet and team artistic events at each edition of the Games dating all the way back to Sydney in 2000. The Russian duo of Svetlana Romashina and Svetlana Kolesnichenko continued that run with their duet title earlier this week, …
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