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Ryan Garcia’s performance-enhancing performance came a day before and a day after his unexpected win over Devin Haney in Brooklyn last month, according to letters sent to both sides by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (Vada). Tested positive for the anabolic agent ostarine.ESPN was the first to report the news that Garcia failed a drug test, which if confirmed would likely result in a suspension and overturning the result to a no-contest.Garcia has 10 days to request testing of his B sample. Garcia’s A sample also reportedly screened positive for 19-norandrosterone, but carbon isotope ratio testing confirmed its presence.Ostarine is an…

Wisconsin police shot and killed a student whom officials say came to a local middle school with a gun. The student never got into the school, but as a precaution the entire district was put on a lockdown late Wednesday morning.Students have since been reunited with their parents, some of whom waited up to five hours for their children to be dropped at a bus storage center in Mount Horeb, a village about 20 miles south-west of Madison, the state capital, according to WMTV 15 news.No other students or staff were injured in the shooting, Josh Kaul, Wisconsin’s attorney general,…

Columbia University faculty say they are “horrified” by Tuesday night’s arrests of students by New York police following the occupation of an academic building, Hamilton Hall, by students protesting for the university to divest from Israel.Just after 9.30pm on Tuesday night, NYPD buses parked outside the hall were filled with arrested students who were transported away from campus.Bassam Khawaja, a lecturer at Columbia law school, said on Wednesday that he was “horrified to see Columbia invite police onto our campus for the second time this month to arrest our students”.“Columbia has chosen escalation at every turn here, with disastrous results,”…

A man has been charged with murder after a series of stabbings in Hainault on Tuesday that left a teenage boy dead.Marcus Aurelio Arduini Monzo, 36, was charged with the murder of Daniel Anjorin, 14. He will appear at Barkingside magistrates court on Thursday.Monzo, a Spanish-Brazilian dual national, has also been charged with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of grievous bodily harm, aggravated burglary and possession of a bladed article. The families of all those affected have been informed.The charges were authorised by the homicide division of the Crown Prosecution Service and followed an investigation by the Metropolitan…

UEmery took a deep breath, digested the question, and gave a thoughtful response. Not long ago, staff in UEFA uniforms hurriedly erected a UEFA-branded backboard in a nondescript room at Aston Villa’s training ground, Bodymore Heath, while the manager The conversation soon turned to their pursuit of Champions League qualification.Will Emery be able to take a quiet moment amid a congested schedule to reflect on the progress his team has made in little more than 18 months since he took over a team just outside the Premier League relegation zone that relies solely on goals? ? “At the beginning of…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature34 min: Barcola makes a royal nuisance of himself down the left, reaching the byline and attempting to find Mbappe or Vitinha in the middle with a low cross. The ball goes behind everyone. Dortmund breathe again.Share33 min: … so PSG draw sting from the game with some professional passing around the back.Share31 min: Dortmund immediately come again, Schlotterbeck crossing from the right, Hakimi slicing an attempted clearance hysterically over his own head and crossbar. The resulting corner comes to nothing, but this is better from BVB, who had…

The Premier League has managed to significantly reduce head collisions in the opening weeks of the new season following an overhaul of the sport’s tackle height rules.The Rugby Football Union approved a number of changes over the winter aimed at better protecting players and minimizing head contact, as well as introducing tougher penalties for players who make head contact during tackles. The changes were met with backlash in the early weeks of the season, but early data seen by the Guardian suggests they are working.Since the governing body began compiling tackle statistics in 2018, 13% of tackles in the Chinese…

For the first 15 minutes of my tai chi class, we remain entirely in one spot to warm up. From afar, it probably looks as though we’re standing with our arms by our side and then – in slow motion – lifting them in front of us to 90 degrees. But if you were to look inside my brain, you would see my synapses firing trying to keep up with the instructor’s directions to do things that can’t be seen.“Form the arches under your feet. Soften your knees, not bending,” says Angela, a tai chi instructor of 28 years. “Visualise…

The egg is an everyday miracle – so basic, so cheap, so reliably astonishing in its protean ability to morph from rich custard to airy mousse – and its removal from the equation leaves a gaping culinary hole. And, though plant-based fats are pretty easy to find, for a long time recreating the sturdy foam of whisked egg whites in particular was a challenge that had chefs, scientists and hungry vegans scratching their heads. According to Sébastien Kardinal and Laura Veganpower, despite experimentation with flaxseed, soy protein and CO2 canisters, no one managed to “find a vegan alternative to the…

The US and Saudi Arabia have drafted a set of agreements on security and technology-sharing which were intended to be linked to a broader Middle East settlement involving Israel and the Palestinians.However, in the absence of a ceasefire in Gaza and in the face of adamant resistance from Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli government to the creation of a Palestinian state – and its apparent determination to launch an offensive on Rafah – the Saudis are pushing for a more modest plan B, which excludes the Israelis.Under that option, the US and Saudi Arabia would sign agreements on a bilateral defence pact,…