« Given the highly unresolved situation in Norway and in large parts of the world, it is neither justifiable or desirable to send Norwegian athletes to the Olympics or Paralympics in Tokyo until the world community has put this pandemic behind them, » sports president Berit Kjøll said.
Rituraj Phukan of the Nagaon-based Green Guards Organisation told Mail Today, ‘While historically, jumbo flesh isn’t eaten by tribes of Karbi Hills, we were surprised by the May 1 incident and similar ones in the past 10 years.
Senior wildlife officers refused to confirm that the May 1 Nagaon incident points to ‘meat consumption,’ but other experts expressed fears that the ‘newly acquired taste’ could lead to a spurt in elephant poaching.
« Many players will not have had access to the necessary training methods to ensure that they have the necessary fitness and conditioning to compete, » said the World Players’ Association (WPA), whose members play in the NBA, MLB, NHL, NFL, European soccer and Australian Rules football, among others.
In February this year, a leopard was burnt to death by locals in Gujarat’s Gir-Somnath district. In another case in November 2016, videos of which went viral, a leopard was battered to death with sticks by irate villagers when it strayed into Gurugram’s Sohna district.
Other key concerns were whether players had been provided with enough time to return to competition fitness and whether, in the case of injury, they would have access to the usual range of treatment and rehabilitation, given the strain on health services.
Siobhan McLaughlin, 46, was refused the benefit after her partner John Adams died from cancer in January 2014 because the couple, who had four children and were together for 23 years, were not married or in a civil pa
Maharashtra forest officials, Hyderabadi shooter Nawab Shafath Ali Khan and Chalisgaon MLA Unmesh Patil have found themselves under fire from wildlife conservationists after a photo of them cheerfully posing alongside the ‘dangerous’ leopard they killed on Saturday night emerged.
BERN, June 4 (Reuters) – Players may be at an increased risk of injury as professional sports rush back into action following the coronavirus stoppage, a global union representing 85,000 athletes said on Thursday.
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WPA executive director Brendan Schwab pointed to a study conducted by Australian sports scientist Joel Mason last month which suggested an increased injury rate in the Bundesliga since Germany’s professional soccer league restarted on May 16.
India only has about 30,000 elephants left in its forests and reserves, and the huge animal enjoys the highest Schedule 1 species status under the Wildlife Protection Act (WPA), 1972 besides declared endangered by global body, IUCN.
The WPA said that one key measure would be to reduce the strain by modifying rest periods, substitutions and duration of matches, as soccer had done by allowing five substitutions per team instead of three.
Chief executive Max Siegel said the USTAF « understood » the ramification of postponing the Games for the first time ever in peace time, but that moving forward would not be in the best interest of athletes.
The chairman of UK Athletics said last week the Olympics should be called off to spare athletes the stress of trying to train in the grip of a pandemic which has killed around 12,000 people since the virus surfaced in China.
As alleged in some reports, he had been arrested by police in 1991-92 for supplying weapons to Maoists along the Andhra Pradesh-Odisha border. Sport hunter Khan has been a controversial figure with his penchant for wild animals and guns.
LONDON, March 21 (Reuters) – Calls from sporting organisations for this year’s Tokyo Olympics to be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic gathered pace on Saturday with USA Track and Field (USATF) and Brazil’s Olympic Committee the latest to join the throng.
The Sport and Rights Alliance (SRA) and the World Players Association (WPA) said a « deep review and broader consultation » with athletes was required regarding the decision over whether the Games could run as planned.
« The IOC needs to elevate its dialogue with the full range of those most affected beyond sponsors and governments to an open multi-stakeholder process that brings to the table as equals player associations as the representatives of athletes and others most at risk, » WPA executive director Brendan Schwab said in a statement.
The female sub-adult cat is alleged to have mauled to death seven people in the last three to four months in Chalisgaon taluka near Nashik. Its last claimed victims were a boy and a 70-year-old woman.
Norway’s Sports Federation and Olympic and Paralympic Committee (NIF) said it had written to IOC chief Thomas Bach calling for the Games to be postponed, even if the pandemic is under control in Japan by the summer.