Article by WN.com Correspondent DallasDarling. "Just like reformers before me, I thought that we had a system that could be improved. Instead, I learned that we had a system that needed to be replaced." -Mikhail Gorbachev. Ukrainian ballots have blood on them. Three months of deadly protests and pitched battles have wounded and killed hundreds of citizens. Meanwhile, Ukraine's parliament voted to remove PresidentViktor Yanukovich... 394....(size: 4.9Kb)
WASHINGTON. US PresidentBarack Obama told Hamid Karzai on Tuesday that he is now planning for a full US troop withdrawal because of the Afghan leader's repeated refusal to sign a security pact. But in a rare telephone call with Afghan PresidentKarzai, Obama also held out the possibility of agreeing to a post-2014 training and anti-terror mission with the next government in Kabul... 'Zero option' ... 'Friendly' conversation ... ....(size: 4.8Kb)
Suspected Islamic extremists killed more than 30 students Tuesday in northern Nigeria in an attack the president calls "heinous, brutal and mindless." ... The witnesses say when the students tried to escape, the attackers forced them back inside the burning buildings ... ....(size: 1.4Kb)
UK Sport says it will increase funding for winter sports following Great Britain's record-equalling Winter Olympic performance in Sochi. Team GB won four medals in Sochi, which matched their total from the inaugural Winter Olympics in 1924 in France...Continue reading the main story. “We should shed this idea of not being a winter nation ... 1924 ... 1936 ... * MadgeSyers won figure skating gold at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London ... ....(size: 5.7Kb)
Great Britain will look at the 2014 Sochi Olympics as a significant step forward for winter sport after surpassing the three-medal targe t set by UK Sport... UK Sport invested £13.4m from lottery and exchequer funding to achieve their goal, but could have earned more podium places ... Four years of toil is done. The long road to Pyeongchang begins now ... 0 ... Total medals ... * MadgeSyers won figure skating gold at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London....(size: 17.7Kb)
Skeleton champion Lizzy Yarnold has been chosen to carry the Union flag and lead Team GB into Sunday's closing ceremony of the SochiWinter Olympics. The 25-year-old, winner of one of only 10 gold medals in BritishWinter Olympic history, was selected by Team GB chief Mike Hay and his deputies ... GB's Winter Olympic champions. 1924. Men (curling). 1936 ... * MadgeSyers won figure skating gold at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London ... ....(size: 3.1Kb)
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Previous winners of the women's individual figure skating gold medal at the Winter Olympics..1908MadgeSyers (Britain). 1912 Not included ... 1932 Henie ... ....(size: 1.2Kb)
Lizzy Yarnold's gold medal in Sochi has cemented Britain's status as the dominant power in world skeleton. British sliders have won medals at every Games since the sport's return to the Olympics in 2002 and in Yarnold and Amy Williams, Team GB can boast back-to-back Olympic champions...Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play ... * MadgeSyers won figure skating gold at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London ... ....(size: 11.8Kb)
Florence Madeline "Madge" Syers (néeCave, 16 September 1881 – 9 September 1917) was a Britishfigure skater. She became the first woman to compete at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1902 by entering what was previously an all-male event and won the silver medal, which prompted the International Skating Union (ISU) to create a separate ladies' championship. Syers was the winner of the first two ladies' events in 1906 and 1907, and went on to become the Olympic champion at the 1908 Summer Olympics, the first Olympic Games to include figure skating. She also competed as a pairs skater with her husband Edgar Syers, winning the bronze medal at the 1908 Olympics.
Florence Madeline Cave was born on 16 September 1881 in Kensington, London, one of 15 children of Edward Jarvis Cave, a builder, and his wife Elizabeth Ann. She was a proficient figure skater, as well as a gifted swimmer and equestrienne. Madge became a regular at the Prince's Skating Club in Knightsbridge, which had been formed in 1896 and was popular with aristocratic society in London.