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Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has been given a four-year ban for doping after initially being cleared.A Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada) investigation found the teenager bore “no fault or negligence” for a failed test before the 2022 Winter Olympics.But the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) has upheld an appeal by the World Anti-Doping Agency.News of Valieva’s failed test only emerged after she had helped Russia to team gold in Beijing at the age of 15.The ban has been back dated to 25 December 2021 and the Cas panel has also ordered “the disqualification all competitive results achieved” from that…

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The PM has said he tries to fast at the start of the week so he can indulge in his “weakness for sugary things” on other days.Rishi Sunak told the BBC’s health editor Hugh Pym it was an “important discipline” for him, as he also spoke about the government’s clampdown on disposable vapes.Rishi Sunak: Weekly fast is important discipline for me

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In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Front Row this month, filmmaker Lulu Wang mentioned how the team had trodden carefully on the political scenes of the show. “We shot most of the political stuff in Los Angeles, it’s definitely challenging. You know there is a lot of questions of like ‘Can you show this’, ‘What can you not’,” says Wang. “We worked with legal teams to really guide us, because you have to do it responsibly also, and there’s so many people who are working on it, who live in Hong Kong,” she said. Source link

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