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Free-falling: Top skydivers descend on NC for USPA Nationals
Skydivers soar to new heights at Raeford's Skydive Paraclete XP, where the 2024 USPA Nationals bring together the best in the nation for a high-flying competition.
Opinion
What can be, unburdened by what has been
Like the France of the Olympic opening ceremony, Harris wants to recreate herself anew, forgetting the inconvenient past in favor of the radical future.
Opinion
An Olympic repeat in the making
Athletes from around the world packed up their gear, and dreams of Gold, to head out to the historic Olympic games. Meanwhile, just miles from the flickering Olympic torch, religious minorities were being corralled into concentration camps while the host country was capitalizing on the games to push their propaganda of a modern, strong nation....
Opinion
Olympics should be about athletes, not the activists
The saddest thing about the whole Gwen Berry incident is that media coverage, by and large, cares more about this individual’s activism than the extraordinary events that transpired that day for the athletes. DeAnna Price, the Olympian hammer thrower and 2019 U.S. hammer throw world champion, took first place during the U.S. Olympic Track &...
Opinion
If You Want the World to Be Your Oyster
Why has the air in Beijing, China been so dirty and polluted that, just days before the Summer Olympics were set to begin, athletes worried about the need to wear air filtration masks to protect their health? Hint: China is very much a command-and-control (read: communist-model) country. As one observer noted "...the people exist for the benefit of the government."
