ORONO — Following cancellations of the first two meets of the season due to weather conditions, the Foxcroft Academy indoor track and field team opened the 2022-23 season with a Penobscot Valley Conference/Eastern Maine Indoor Track League meet at the University of Maine on Dec. 30.

ORONO — Following cancellations of the first two meets of the season due to weather conditions, the Foxcroft Academy indoor track and field team opened the 2022-23 season with

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In 2022, France entered pilots into the 21st FAI European Championships in Lithuania, the 37th FAI World Championships in Hungary, The 12th FAI Junior World Championships in the Czech Republic and the 11th Womens World Championships in Great Britain. In the Women’s world gliding competitions in 2022, the French team took a silver, topping this with a team cup gold at the World Championships.

We contacted the national team trainer, Eric Napoléon, a well-respected and

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Australian aeromodellers David and Melissa Law recently competed in the 2022 FAI F4 Scale World Championships, held in Jarlsberg Airsport Centre, Norway. In the F4H Radio controlled standoff, Melissa gained a gold medal with her Super Decathlon. David, in the F4C Radio controlled scale class gained silver with his Pitts Special.

Melissa is the first female in the world to compete in scale, a huge achievement after rekindling her aeromodelling career just two years

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new Apple Watch Ultra

Apple has entered the adventure chat. In addition to releasing the updated Apple Watch Series 8 this month, the tech giant is also launching a new watch that’s pushing boundaries. It’s not just any fitness tracker: the Apple Watch Ultra is a tool that can handle extreme environments, elevations, and temperatures — and it’s calling to anyone whose lifestyle is just as intense.

When I reached out to Apple to test one, it gently guided

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Fresh from a drag performance featuring a gender-swapped Mario and Princess Peach chasing each other around on stage, after watching a burlesque performer disrobe to the Tetris theme, I am standing at the bar waiting for a drink, surrounded by people in fabulous outfits. Famous drag queen Asstina Mandella is here in a stunning dress; I am in a purple bisexual-colours suit and I still feel somewhat underdressed for the occasion. I am not

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Climbing and skiing Denali in Alaska, elevation 20,310 feet, is grueling. Mountaineers endure blizzards, high altitude and weeks in subzero temperatures as they slowly make their way up the highest peak in North America. Vasu Sojitra did it on one leg.

At the age of 9 months, Mr. Sojitra’s right leg was amputated because of septicemia, a blood infection. When he was 10, he saw an amputee skiing in Connecticut with two outriggers — short

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With 13 different team members finishing in the top three of events, the Madison Warhawks won a recent girls Concorde District indoor track and field meet, scoring 102 points. Westfield was second with 94.

Bethany Riddle in the shot put (26-feet, 7-inches), Hannah Petersen in the pole vault (7-3) and Mary Byrne in the 3,200-meters (11:17.99) were the team’s three winners of events. The 4×200 relay also won in 1:51.95.

Second for Madison were Kira

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“Ouw. Slipped. How. He’s okkk…”

On either side of the elegantly alarming sighs from commentators Morten Frost and Steen Pedersen during Lakshya Sen’s quarterfinal against Chinese Zhao Jun Peng came a biomechanical boggler for 35-year-old Abdul Wahid sitting in the stands behind the Indian.

This was at 20-20 in the decider, and Sen’s trusted physiotherapist and trainer wasn’t really looking at the shuttler’s little skid, but more at the fate of the shuttle across the

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The first Cape Ann League Indoor Track meet of the winter season took place at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston Wednesday evening.

The following is a brief refresher on the scoring system:

Each school participates in each event simultaneously. However, each program alternates opponents from meet to meet.

So for example, on Wednesday the Newburyport girls had the top four finishers in the 600 with Blake Parker (1:46.65), Annabel Murray (1:46.73), Elizabeth Downs (1:52.26)

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