According to the Sports Business Journal, breakdancing has been provisionally approved for the 2024 Olympics. However, breakdancing wouldn’t be the only addition. Skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing were also approved and will debut in Tokyo next year. However, breakdancing would have to wait until the games are set in Paris. The recommendation came from the International Olympic Committee’s executive board in March. It said breakdancing, and the other sports approved, “offer the opportunity to connect with the young generation....

Now, if a crash should happen, without any anticipation on your or my part, then an uncomfortable truth must be acknowledged by us both: crashes are pretty damn exciting. Particularly when no one gets hurt and they’re just good, rough-and-tumble, eye-filling fun. And that’s why my favorite part of the Winter Games thus far isn’t Fritz Strobl’s stunning victory in the downhill or Kelly Clark’s joyous gold medal in the halfpipe-it’s the nail-biting runs of the magnificently brave and stupendously terrible Asian lugers....

Who better to welcome them than Alex Ovechkin, holding a bottle of Coca Cola and grinning like a lunatic? Get ready to see a lot of that. It's not the first Ovechkin-centric Coke ad, either:

The former AS Roma winger’s 18 goals - in 23 games - in the English top-flight is only bettered by Harry Kane’s 21. However, the Los Angeles defender - on loan from Basel - is upbeat about his compatriot’s credentials to finish the season as the most productive marksman in the division. “I think he’s one of the best players in the world now. He had a very good season with Roma, and he’s doing even better with Liverpool now,” Gaber told ESPN....

Germany’s Bavarian health ministry said on Saturday that two confirmed cases arrived to Munich from South Africa on November 24. “The individuals have been in domestic isolation since Nov. 25 following a positive PCR test. Following reports of the new variant, the two individuals had the foresight to arrange for themselves to be tested for the variant,” a ministry spokesperson said in the statement. Fifty other passengers who were on the same flight that arrived at the Munich airport from Cape Town are currently quarantining in Bavaria....

School officials have been struggling since the mid-1990s with which role to play in dealing with overexercisers, a group particularly prominent in the stressful college environment. There are no hard numbers, but 44 percent of U.S. undergrads and graduate students say they know someone suffering from exercise bulimia, according to the National Eating Disorders Association. “It used to be too much drinking or drugs [to deal with stress],” says Lynn Grefe, NEDA’s CEO....

On Wednesday, the Democratic Party contender was holed up in his bunker in Delaware, where he has spent most of the last six months. Biden had no big events planned. Instead, he was on light duties only. He did one press conference and, to the best of my knowledge, that was his sole public appearance. Everybody needs a rest day and, at 77 years of age, perhaps Biden could be forgiven for wanting to take it a little easy....

Sydney began its existence as the place you were sent to to rot when Mother England didn’t want you. On Jan. 26, 1788, sailors raised a British flag on the shore of a sheltered inlet they called Sydney Cove. Today this is the business district, flanked on one side by the great cast iron span of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and on the other by the even more famous Opera House....

Never before has the Congress responded so swiftly and decisively to a court ruling. Never mind that the decision issued by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is bound to be overturned, and not a single child will be denied the opportunity to recite the pledge. This was an issue made for political exploitation, and every politician who could get to a camera or issue a press release wanted a piece of the action....

A university statement says Angel Garcia was working for Lindamood Demolition when the accident happened about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the north end of Kyle Field. The 25-year-old worker died a short time later at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Bryan. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Texas A&M University System and university police are investigating the accident. Kyle Field is undergoing $450 million in upgrades to put in new grass and expand seating from 82,600 to 102,500....

The bill’s goal is to “leverage the experience, knowledge and expertise” of educational institutions and private businesses in the United States and Israel to pursue machine learning, image classification, object detection, speech recognition, natural language processing, data labeling, computer vision and model explainability and interpretability. Sen. Rubio stressed that the United States, and indeed the world, “benefit immensely when we engage in joint cooperation and partnerships with Israel, a global technology leader and our most important ally in the Middle East,” while also arguing that these bilateral research ties will help both nations stay ahead of China’s ever-growing technology threat....

The night market in Patpong is just spitting distance from the sex shows. Why gaze drunkenly at cheap flesh when you can pick up cheap booty? Clothing, CDs and trinkets, that is. Take a boat trip along the Chao Phraya River. A cheap and popular activity by day, it’s even prettier at night. And it’ll get you off those congested streets and sidewalks. Get a massage–a legitimate one. Or a facial, manicure or shave at one of the many after-hours beauty salons....

Royce Pierce, a 38-year-old contractor and Texas resident owes power company, Griddy, $8,162.73 for his electricity use in February. The total was a steep increase compared with his bill for his two-story home last month, which was $387.79. “It’s mind-blowing. I honestly didn’t believe the price at first,” Pierce told the Daily Beast. “It’s not a great feeling knowing that there is a looming bill that we just can’t afford....

The latest beatdown of a playoff-caliber opponent came in Sunday’s 31-13 rout of the AFC South-leading Texans. The effort was led again by a nasty, deep front seven that racked up four more sacks vs. Brock Osweiler and held Houston to 59 rushing yards. MORE: Carson Wentz, Eagles reveal who they truly are The Vikings’ two consistent supporting elements of their 5-0 start also showed up in the game. Quarterback Sam Bradford (22-of-30, 271 yards, 2 TDs, no turnovers, 123....

The public in Britain will not get a vote on their next head of state and plans for the Prince of Wales to take the crown have already been codenamed Operation Spring Tide in leaked government documents. However, after the queen’s era, the new king will be the subject of a campaign by anti-Monarchy campaign group Republic. Pollsters Redfield & Wilton asked 1,500 people online on behalf of Newsweek whether William or Charles should be the next king on November 17....

NASCAR’s championship Sprint Cup has lasted a decade without many changes. But in NASCAR, there are different race trophies every week. Martinsville Speedway has its infamous clock. The Daytona 500’s Harley J. Earl Trophy is somewhat well-known. MORE: N.H. schedule | Kurt Busch penalty | Earnhardt’s Daytona regret | NASCAR team owner alliance And then there’s New Hampshire Motor Speedway’s trophy — a live lobster. The still very much alive lobster is brought into victory lane and the winner poses for pictures while holding onto the lobster, which has had its claws banded shut....

Despite the ongoing challenges with COVID-19, in less than two years’ time, the United States has nearly returned to full employment with an unemployment rate of 3.9%, compared to 14.8% in April of 2020. It is a much speedier recovery than what was seen after the 2007-2009 global financial crisis. However, this success story is overlooking the lack of women currently in the workplace, whose labor force participation has hit a 33-year low....

The successes of OWS are even more remarkable given the sheer number of mistakes made by public health experts during this crisis. Leading figures like Dr. Fauci started the pandemic by telling Americans that masks didn’t work, but then they demanded that we wear two of them even while outside. They advocated for protracted lockdowns that resulted in the sharpest economic contraction in American history and opposed every attempt to ameliorate these restrictions....

That was especially true at the beginning of the third period, when Nikolaj Ehlers pounced on a bad back pass to score Winnipeg’s second goal of the night. The 21-year-old Jets forward stole the puck just inside the Wild blueline, turned defenseman Mikael Granlund inside-out, then proceeded to deke past goaltender Alex Stalock before slipping a backhander into the gaping net. Ehlers’ goal ultimately ended up being the winner after Luke Kunin put Minnesota on the board at 5:36 in the third....