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EuroMillions: What you could buy with £184m jackpot from private island to an Olympic swimming pool of champagne

One lucky UK Euromillions player has scooped the biggest ever jackpot of £184m, which is more money than what Adele and Benedict Cumberbatch are worth.

Daily Record

American baseball matches to return to London next year

The two matches played between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees at the former Olympic stadium in June 2019

Evening Standard

Water regulator fines respected cotton grower Tony Thompson $57,000 for stealing water in drought

A cotton grower who fronted an industry campaign to discredit the environmental water buyback scheme is guilty of illegally pumping water equal to almost 300 Olympic-sized swimming pools during drought.

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Brisbane City Council urged to redirect $200m earmarked for Olympic land into affordable housing

The council budgeted to borrow $200 million this year for land acquisitions ahead of the 2032 Olympics.

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We found a hidden source of greenhouse gases – organic matter in groundwater

Dry land isn’t really dry. It’s saturated with truly vast volumes of groundwater, hidden in the spaces of the earth we walk on. How much? Recent estimates put it at almost two trillion Olympic swimming pools of water stored in the upper 10 km of continental crust.

The Conversation

Energy Recovery Secures SWRO Contracts Worth $20M In Gulf Region

Energy Recovery, Inc. (NASDAQ:ERII) has received multiple contract awards totaling more than $20 million in the Gulf region for its PX Pressure Exchanger energy recovery devices. The orders are expected to be completed by 4Q23, and the desalination plants will be able to provide over one million cubic meters of water each day…

Benzinga

Woman poisoned by chlorine gas leak at London’s Olympic park plans to sue

Tess Riley has been left fraught with anxiety over any potential impact the gas has had on her pregnancy

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All praise to Ash Barty for refusing to chase trophies at all costs – it’s time the whole sports world caught on

As a young Olympian I was asked to do ‘whatever it takes’ to win. Now I can see how sinister that was, says Olympic rower Cath Bishop

The Guardian - UK

Herbie Farnworth stars as Brisbane outlast Canterbury 16-10 to remain ubeaten

Brisbane have remained unbeaten in the 2022 NRL season after they outlasted Canterbury.

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London to light Olympic ‘legacy flame’ to celebrate games’ 10th anniversary

Organisers are expecting thousands of visitors to attend the free event in July.

The Independent UK

Covid strikes twice: US skater barred from closing ceremony after missing competition

Beijing (AFP) - American figure skater Vincent Zhou had a terrible Beijing Olympics -- a potential medallist, he had to withdraw the day before his event after a positive Covid test.Then on Sunday, he was barred from the closing ceremony.

AFP

Injured Olympian Gets Big Air in Big-Cat Costume for Kicks

There were no tail grabs for this tiger. French snowboarder Lucile Lefevre was a crowd pleaser at Big Air Shougang all the same. The 26-year-old helped Beijing ring in the Year of the Tiger by putting on an orange-and-black big-cat costume during qualifying Monday in women's big air and miming…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lilah Fear: London ice dance star who followed her Winter Olympic dream from school days

The 22-year-old’s former PE teacher says seeing her ex-pupil grace the Olympic ice for the first time will be ‘emotional’

Evening Standard

Winter Olympics 2022: How much does it snow in Beijing?

Get ready for a lot of fake snow.

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The Independent UK

BEIJING SNAPSHOT: Olympic press can grab high-tech naps

With nowhere really to go, journalists inside the Beijing Olympics bubble are encouraged to sleep on the job

Daily Record

Curling stars Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds fire warning shot to rivals after slipping to first defeat at Beijing 2022

Having seen off world bronze medallists Sweden and reigning Olympic champions Canada, 2018 silver medallists Switzerland proved a step too far for the Scots

AFP

Racers revel in nerve-racking debut on untested Olympic downhill

Yanqing (China) (AFP) - Intimidating, stressful, nerve-racking, but great fun: just some of the reactions of the ski racers after Thursday's first men's downhill training run on the untested man-made Olympic speed slope.

The Independent UK

For Uyghur torchbearer, China's Olympic flame has gone dark

At the age of 17, Kamaltürk Yalqun was chosen to help carry the Olympic flame ahead of the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, where he later represented his home region in western China

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Iranian female skier cuts icy path to Beijing Olympics

Abali (Iran) (AFP) - Iranian Atefeh Ahmadi learned to ski not long after she could walk, but the path to the Winter Olympics has not been an entirely smooth run for the 21-year-old.

The Independent UK

One more Olympic ride: End means a new beginning for White

Shaun White is making a curtain call

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