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Ex-USA Gymnastics coach arrested and charged with more than a dozen counts of lewdness with a child

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A 52-year-old former coach of the United States gymnastics team will appear in court in Las Vegas on Monday to face 14 charges of lewdness with children. Terry Gray, who helped prepare Morgan White and Alyssa Beckerman for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, was arrested by police in Las Vegas on Friday. John C. Manly, a … Read more

British 2012 Olympic athletes used as guinea pigs for Special Forces ‘wonder drug’

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British Olympians were used as guinea pigs to test an experimental substance in a secret UK Sport project costing hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money in a bid to enhance their performance at London 2012, an MoS investigation has found. The so-called ‘novel nutritional intervention’ was fed to medal hopefuls during competition despite only … Read more

British 2012 Olympians guinea pigs for Special Forces ‘wonder drug’

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British Olympians were used as guinea pigs to test an experimental substance in a secret UK Sport project costing hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money in a bid to enhance their performance at London 2012, an MoS investigation has found. The so-called ‘novel nutritional intervention’ was fed to medal hopefuls during competition despite only … Read more

British gymnasts who competed at Olympics and Commonwealth Games in abuse and bullying claims

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Leading British gymnasts who competed at Olympics and Commonwealth Games claim they were ‘beaten and starved’ during campaign of bullying and abuse by their coaches Former Commonwealth gymnastic champion Lisa Mason claims she was abused Catherine Lyons, 19, also claims she was assaulted and bullied by a coach Series of allegations comes after Netflix aired … Read more

Cannabis-smoking motorcyclist jailed over hit-and-run

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Jerome Cawkwell, pictured, rode a motorbike with defective front brakes when he ran into nine year old Max Clark in Hull on May 25 A cannabis-smoking motorcyclist was today jailed for three years after he knocked down a nine-year-old schoolboy gymnast leaving him with life changing injuries.  Dock labourer Jerome Cawkwell, 24, tested positive for … Read more

Lifelong devotee reveals why the bob is the perfect corona cut when hairdressers finally reopen 

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The year was 1976, figure skater Dorothy Hamill was dominating the Winter Olympics, and in suburban Reading my mother was giving her unwilling daughter an approximation of Hamill’s short pageboy bob. I always wanted long, curly hair, because the little girl who lived next door told me that angels had hair like that. But what … Read more

Sheikh Al-Maktoum’s racehorses became part of venomous divorce battle

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Dubai’s billionaire ruler’s latest divorce battle: Sheikh Al-Maktoum fights estranged wife Princess Haya over the future of their multi-million pound thoroughbred racehorses The sheikh, 70, is one of the world’s most successful horse owners and breeders  He keeps a string of thoroughbreds at his Godolphin stables near Newmarket Some of them were owned by estranged wife, … Read more

Michael Phelps says he has been through some of the ‘darkest moments of his life’ during quarantine

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Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps is opening up about his mental health struggles, admitting that the pandemic and quarantine have been the ‘most difficult time’ in his life. The 34-year-old was one of a dozen participants in Yahoo Life‘s Reset Your Mind event on May 20, and in a video he recorded at home, he got candid … Read more

Heather Locklear ‘tipped Ventura County Sheriff $1,500’ for charity… and filmed Tonight Show cameo

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Eighties TV icon Heather Locklear has been finding ways to give back to her local police station two years after being arrested for allegedly punching a deputy and kicking an EMT. The troubled 58-year-old left a $1,500 tip benefitting Special Olympics at one of the Ventura County Sheriff’s ‘Tip-A-Cop’ event where law enforcement serves as … Read more