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Sailing: Howth’s five-year focus on youth pays dividends

Edit The Irish Times 27 May 2016
An absence of young sailors of school-leaving and college age had been noticeable so, spearheaded by Noel Davidson and Fergus O’Kelly, the plan was to enter a youth team in the BMW J24 European Championships at the club in 2013. While aimed squarely at amateur and club-based sailing, the programme has adopted training techniques that would be familiar to professional and Olympic-level campaigns....

O'Sullivan, Williams and Daly called up for international duty (Houston Dynamo)

Edit Public Technologies 27 May 2016
(Source. Houston Dynamo) ... The forward previously played for England's youth teams and took part in the U-17 World Cup, but has not made her debut with the senior squad ... Williams, 28, has earned 52 caps with the Matildas, including an undefeated qualifying campaign for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Australia will host New Zealand in Ballarat and Melbourne as part of a farewell tour prior to the Olympic Games ... (noodl. 33821110) ....

Ice in our Veins: Ryan Cochrane & Katerine Savard (behind the scenes) (Canadian Olympic Committee)

Edit Public Technologies 27 May 2016
Canadian Olympic Committee) ... A couple of months after this shoot Cochrane and Savard took part in Swimming Canada national trials, both clinching a spot on the Olympic team ... For Cochrane, Brazil will mark his third Olympic Games, while it'll be the second outing for Savard on a team of 27 swimmers that includes two youngsters born in the year 2000....

The Evolution of The Revolution featuring Jay Electronica tickets

Edit Skiddle 27 May 2016
Coronet Theatre in London. Friday 27th May 2016. 6.00pm til 11.00pm (last entry 10.30pm). Minimum Age. 18. This concert with Jay Electronica is being organised by UNIHOOD which is a Youth led initiative ... In November 2010, it was announced Jay Electronica had signed to hip hop mogul Jay-Z‘s Roc Nation record label ... ....

Victoria Pendleton: corrosive culture forced me out of cycling

Edit The Guardian 27 May 2016
• Olympic champion backs criticism of performance director Shane Sutton ... Victoria Pendleton has claimed she would have performed better at the London Olympics, where she won silver and gold medals, and could now be heading to compete in Rio if it was not for the corrosive culture at British Cycling that forced her to quit ... Olympics rather than after....

Youth Parliament update (New Zealand Parliament)

Edit Public Technologies 27 May 2016
Youth Parliament 2016. Every three years, about 140 young New Zealanders (aged between 16 and 24) experience Parliament as Youth MPs and Youth Press Gallery members....

Mayor Lee Announces Additional $72 Million Investment to Support City’s Children & Families (City and County of San Francisco, CA)

Edit Public Technologies 27 May 2016
Lee today announced over the next two years the City will contribute and invest $728 million in programs for children, youth and families, representing a 13 percent growth over the next two years compared to FY 2015-16 spending ... 'With these new investments, we continue our commitment in education to help all families succeed in our City and prepare our youth for a job in the 21st Century economy ... Youth Workforce Development....

'Workers want Priyanka as Cong's face in UP polls'

Edit The Times of India 27 May 2016
Ranchi ... "There is a demand for a fresh face for UP election ... A video titled 'Abki Bar Barbad Ho Gaye Yaar' was screened at the state party headquarters, highlighting the plight of jobless youth, farmers, lack of cleanliness, rising commodity prices and other issues under the BJP government ... The UPA generated 10 lakh jobs in 2010, the NDA promised two crore jobs, but has only managed to generate 1.35 lakh jobs this year," she said....

Triplet threat: the Estonian sisters who will run in Rio Olympics

Edit The Guardian 27 May 2016
Marathon running sisters set for Olympic history by becoming first identical triplets to compete against each other ... Twins competing in the same event is not uncommon at the Olympic level....

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell reaffirms research

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 27 May 2016
women’s soccer team has the right to strike for improved conditions and wages before this year’s Summer Olympics, with her pending decision potentially carrying far-reaching consequences for American soccer ... soccer and the union bars the women from striking in the days leading to the Olympics in Rio, where the American women would seek their fourth straight Olympic gold medal....

Sharapova On Russian Olympics Team Despite Failing Drug Test

Edit Radio Free Europe 27 May 2016
Russia has included Maria Sharapova provisionally on its team for the Olympic tennis tournament in August despite her suspension for failing a drug test ... Sharapova won silver at the 2012 London Olympics....

Brazilian Ministry of Health to Distribute 100,000 FC2s from The Female Health Company at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (The Female Health Company)

Edit Public Technologies 27 May 2016
CHICAGO, May 26, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Female Health Company (NASDAQ.FHCO) (FHC) today announced that the Ministry of Health in Brazil will distribute 100,000 of FHC's FC2 Female Condoms to the athletes participating in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. According to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), a total of approximately 450,000 male and female condoms will be distributed to the Olympic athletes....

Government Imports 549 Tractors And Combine Harvesters

Edit Modern Ghana 27 May 2016
According to him, the ministry would be willing to give some of the tractors to women and the youth who wish to engage in farming to encourage them to boost the sector ... According to him, Ghana depends heavily on maize, yam and cotton from the Northern Region for industries such as Nasia Rice Mill, Bosbel Oil Mill and Cotton Ginneries which provide market for farmers and employment to the youth....
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