Gymnastics

SIMONE BILES, JAMAL MURRAY AND COCO GAUFF LEAD THE NOMINATIONS FOR 2024 LAUREUS WORLD SPORTS AWARDS

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Monday, February 26, 2024

London, Feb. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Laureus, the global organization that uses the power of sport to change the world, today announced nominations for the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards.

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  • London, Feb. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Laureus, the global organization that uses the power of sport to change the world, today announced nominations for the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards.
  • Florida surfer Caroline Marks is nominated for the Laureus World Action Sportsperson Award after winning her first world title.
  • The Laureus World Sports Awards also honour the work of over 300 programmes supported globally by Laureus Sport for Good, using the power of sport to change the world.
  • For more information, editorial imagery and the full list of Laureus World Sports Awards Nominees, click here .

Gymnast Suni Lee Teams Up with BATISTE to Unveil Innovative Haircare Launch Supporting Busy and Active Lifestyles

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Monday, February 26, 2024

BATISTE™ , the leader in dry shampoo, proudly announces its partnership with gymnast Suni Lee to launch two new products, Sweat-Activated and Touch-Activated Dry Shampoo.

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  • BATISTE™ , the leader in dry shampoo, proudly announces its partnership with gymnast Suni Lee to launch two new products, Sweat-Activated and Touch-Activated Dry Shampoo.
  • This collaboration merges the BATISTE brand’s innovative approach to haircare and Suni Lee’s dynamic lifestyle on her journey toward competing for the US Team again in 2024.
  • "BATISTE is thrilled to work with Suni Lee, an athlete renowned for her talent and dedication in gymnastics.
  • "Our new Sweat-Activated and Touch-Activated Dry Shampoos support active and busy lifestyles like Suni’s, ensuring hair looks clean and smells fresh, regardless of busy schedules."

Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate School Student Wins $100,000 College Tuition Scholarship From Barbizon Modeling And Acting

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

TAMPA, Fla., March 5, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate School fifth grade student Kristen Smith was recently named the winner of Barbizon Modeling & Acting's $100,000 college tuition scholarship. Smith is the 16th person to receive this accolade since the scholarship's inception in 1994.

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  • Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate School fifth grade student Kristen Smith was recently named the winner of Barbizon Modeling & Acting's $100,000 college tuition scholarship.
  • TAMPA, Fla., March 5, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Lafayette Sunnyside Intermediate School fifth grade student Kristen Smith was recently named the winner of Barbizon Modeling & Acting's $100,000 college tuition scholarship.
  • Every two years, the $100,000 College Tuition Scholarship program is funded and awarded by Barbizon Modeling and Acting to support and invest in the company's core value of education.
  • Founded in New York City in 1939, Barbizon offers children and teens modeling and acting training in addition to life skills instruction.

Caregivers Cheer First Patients at New Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital, Miller Family Campus in Lehi, Utah

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Monday, February 12, 2024

The Miller Family Campus’ Infusion Center opened for one day before the grand opening to give them the treatments they needed, closer to home.

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  • The Miller Family Campus’ Infusion Center opened for one day before the grand opening to give them the treatments they needed, closer to home.
  • Everyone at the new campus has been so amazing to work with!”
    The new Miller Family Campus is a full-service children’s hospital providing nearly all the same specialty pediatric services that patients receive at the Salt Lake Campus.
  • The Miller Family Campus is part of Intermountain Health’s Primary Promise to build the nation’s model health system for children.
  • For more information about the new Miller Family Campus in Lehi, visit primarychildrens.org/lehi .

Indiana Digital Learning School Students Now Eligible for NCAA Scholarships

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Thursday, February 8, 2024

The flexibility of online schools often makes them a top option for these driven and laser-focused students.

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  • The flexibility of online schools often makes them a top option for these driven and laser-focused students.
  • Because serving these passions and personal pathways are a top priority, Indiana Digital Learning School , or INDLS, is excited to announce that the NCAA has officially approved its core curriculum.
  • The NCAA supports sports across many seasons, and as an NCAA-accredited online public school, INDLS stands by its athletes and helps guide them toward academic and athletic success.
  • INDLS offers a broad selection of NCAA courses across subject areas with the exception of some electives – which is common.

Venture capitalists are backing a ‘steroid Olympics’ to find out what happens when athletes are doped to the gills

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

It drives ferocious competition, captures unconditional tribal loyalty, and rewards the victors with fame and fortune.

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  • It drives ferocious competition, captures unconditional tribal loyalty, and rewards the victors with fame and fortune.
  • As the Olympic motto declares, the limits of human performance are there to be tested – faster, higher, stronger.
  • But what would happen if the boundaries were not just pushed, but abandoned altogether?

The case for enhancement

  • The argument in favour of “enhanced” sport declares the current system dishonest and ineffective, as drug use is supposedly already widespread.
  • It calls for athletes to make their own body-boosting decisions, and for their excellence to be rewarded with a more equitable share of the sport-entertainment loot.

Costs to participants

  • It’s not that we’re averse to “thinking outside the box” to shake up existing systems, which are sometimes inequitable and unfair.
  • And we agree there’s always more that can be done to reduce the harm elite athletes’ bodies endure.
  • However, any enhanced entertainment value would come at a cost to the participants.

What’s sport for?

  • We’d like to think that most committed sport fans would prefer to watch athletes, not injectable avatars.
  • The Enhanced Games suggests the path to victory is via what many sport fans would regard as cheating.
  • Even if we leave aside the significant health risks of a “go for it” open category of sport (which presents deal-breaking legal and medical ethics concerns anyway), it challenges the very essence of what sport should be about.

More inequality and prospects for exploitation

  • Access to money, knowledge, power and technology already gives some athletes an edge over others, and the Enhanced Games would exacerbate these inequalities.
  • The Enhanced Games proposal does not set out how the increased risk to athletes exploited for commercial gain will be managed.

Winning – but at what cost?

  • Sport should be part of a society that cares about respect, fun, friendship, health, learning new skills and vitality.
  • (Johnson, notoriously banned from normal competition for life after failing multiple drug tests, came third.)
  • The University of Canberra has a Memorandum of Understanding with Sport Integrity Australia and is researching several co-funded projects, including on anti-doping.
  • The University of Canberra has a Memorandum of Understanding with Sport Integrity Australia and is researching several co-funded projects, including on anti-doping.

HotelPlanner Partners with the World Nineball Tour as Official Hotel Provider

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Thursday, January 18, 2024

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HotelPlanner, a leading travel technology platform and hotel booking engine, today announced a service provider partnership with the World Nineball Tour, the world’s first professional, commercial pool tour.

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  • WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HotelPlanner, a leading travel technology platform and hotel booking engine, today announced a service provider partnership with the World Nineball Tour, the world’s first professional, commercial pool tour.
  • HotelPlanner and Matchroom Multi Sport will focus their initial partnership on the World Nineball Tour , a professional billiards tour with more than 30 annual events across five continents, including the Matchroom Majors, Matchroom Invitationals and the World Pool Championship.
  • The World Nineball Tour provides a unique commercial platform for professional pool players, similar to partner’s World Snooker Tour Ltd. and the Professional Darts Corporation, which have both awarded millions in prize money.
  • So we’re very proud to welcome Matchroom Multi Sport and the World Nineball Tour to the HotelPlanner family.”

SheaMoisture Launches 1st Ever Deodorant Range for Rich Melanin Skin with Sponsorship of Trailblazing Fisk University Gymnastics Team

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

SheaMoisture Launches 1st Ever Deodorant Range for Rich Melanin Skin!

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  • SheaMoisture Launches 1st Ever Deodorant Range for Rich Melanin Skin!
  • SheaMoisture's 1st Ever Deodorant Range for Rich Melanin Skin Includes Eight Products:
    Six distinct Black dermatologist approved stick deodorants for long-lasting antiperspirant underarm protection and skin solutions which evens tone, moisturizes, and smooths skin.
  • SheaMoisture's 1st ever deodorant range for rich melanin skin will be available starting February 2024 at Walmart, Target, Walgreens and CVS with a suggested retail price of $9.99 each.
  • SheaMoisture will feature the Fisk University Gymnastics Team throughout its Shea deodorant launch campaign, provide a $25,000 grant in support of their 2024 season, provide career resources to team gymnasts and special products.

Following a year at #1, Publicis Groupe kicks off 2024 with the One-to-One Wishes, powered by AI

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Thursday, January 11, 2024

So we are kicking off 2024 not with one New Year’s Wish film, but 100,000 of them.

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  • So we are kicking off 2024 not with one New Year’s Wish film, but 100,000 of them.
  • Along the way, Carla, Dave, Agathe, Nigel and even Maurice seem to have picked some surprising new skills.
  • Watch Nigel and Arthur thank Youri, a Publicis Sapient designer originally from Seoul, who is inspired by dance, gymnastics, and the arts.
  • Watch Dave and Arthur thank Tony, an EVP at Publicis Media, living in Canada, who loves travel, water sports and parkour.

Getty Images and the International Olympic Committee Sign Renewal Agreement

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Thursday, December 7, 2023

NEW YORK, Dec. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Getty Images (NYSE: GETY), a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, today announced it has renewed a long-term agreement with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), with Getty Images continuing to serve as the Official Photographic Agency of the International Olympic Committee. Content captured as the Official Photographic Agency will be supplied to the IOC, its sponsors and other members of the IOC family, complementing Getty Images’ broader independent photographic media coverage of the Olympic Games.

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  • NEW YORK, Dec. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Getty Images (NYSE: GETY), a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, today announced it has renewed a long-term agreement with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), with Getty Images continuing to serve as the Official Photographic Agency of the International Olympic Committee.
  • Content captured as the Official Photographic Agency will be supplied to the IOC, its sponsors and other members of the IOC family, complementing Getty Images’ broader independent photographic media coverage of the Olympic Games.
  • Getty Images has covered 14 editions of the Olympic Games and 14 editions of the Olympic Winter Games since 1968 as Allsport and subsequently as Getty Images.
  • For more information about Getty Images’ coverage of past and future Olympic Games, visit https://www.gettyimages.com/collections/olympics