Champion

2023 - 2 - 14

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In Dadaab's sprawling refugee complex, young women champion ... (Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance)

Cervical cancer is a major threat to women in Kenya, and among the Somali refugee population of Dadaab, unscientific traditional treatments compound the threat.

"Diversion of resources, manpower, expertise and campaigns to address COVID-19 and administration of mass COVID-19 vaccination rolled back efforts by refugee agencies in addressing cervical cancer through HPV vaccine administration and refugee community outreaches." Garissa county's cancer centre is "one of its kind in the northern Kenya region", says Garissa County Executive Committee member for Health and Sanitation, Ahmednadhir Omar. "It's an interactive Facebook session meant to impart knowledge and education on cervical cancer and uptake of HPV vaccine. They are Young Girls' HPV Vaccine Champions, refugee residents of Dadaab themselves, and enlisted by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) – which runs the only hospital in the camp – to conduct a cervical cancer awareness campaign. Some in their teens, and some in their early twenties, the ten Champions have all had both doses of the HPV vaccine themselves. By "girls' spaces," she means informal clusters of girls and young women – natural "safe spaces" in public zones, where girls sit and tell each other stories, away from groups of boys and older people. Cervical cancer is a major threat to women in Kenya, and among the Somali refugee population of Dadaab, unscientific traditional treatments compound the threat. It's early morning in Dadaab Refugee complex in Garissa, northern Kenya, and the punishing heat of the later day is yet to rise. The three camps that make up Dadaab – Hagadera, Dagahaley and Ifo – have a total population of 233,736 people. The areas near the camps have registered a number of incidents in the past, attributed to local armed bandits, and some major ones linked to Al-Shabaab terrorist group," says Champion Muslima Adow, aged 21. "We run girls' spaces or meet-ups in the camps and schools," says Adow. "The three refugee camps in Dadaab are close to Kenya-Somalia border and anything can happen.

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'Doctor Who' Script Editor & 'Champion' EP Join BBC Drama Team (Deadline)

BBC Drama Director Lindsay Salt has assembled her commissioning team with a triple hire including the EP on Candice Carty-Williams' Champion and a former ...

Scott-Haughton joins the BBC from Balloon Entertainment, where she has most recently been EP on Champion, the BBC and Netflix’s upcoming musical drama series from Queenie author Carty-Williams. Danielle Scott-Haughton and Nick Lambon join as BBC Drama Commissioning Editors, while Sami El-Hadi becomes Head of Development, joining from Ackley Bridge producer The Forge. BBC Drama Director Lindsay Salt has assembled her commissioning team with a triple hire including the EP on Candice Carty-Williams’ Champion and a former Doctor Who script editor.

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Scott Paisley is 2-time cyclocross national champion (WVIR)

A Charlottesville man is making his mark in the cycling world, rising to the top in age group.

Paisley won again this past season in the 65-to-69-year-old group. Paisley says he has been cycling his whole life. “I had no idea what to do.

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BBC hires 'Champion' EP and Who script editor (NNN)

BBC hires 'Champion' EP and Who script editor BBC Drama Director Lindsay Salt has assembled her commissioning team with a triple hire including the EP on ...

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Bianca Belair: 6 Awesome Facts About The Raw Women's Champion (Cinema Blend)

Bianca Belair will go down as one of the most dominant WWE Women's Champions of all time, but that's just part of her story.

Women’s gymnast Simone Biles](https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2572443/the-last-milestone-director-connects-eilud-kipchoge-with-simone-biles-and-colin-kaepernick) pulled out of the 2021 Olympics due to mental strain. During an [August 2021 appearance on Out of Character with Ryan Satin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4gCIke4QUE), then-SmackDown Women’s Champion Belair opened up about her own struggles as a college athlete and the track coach who put her mental health above everything else: In the breakdown of her 2022, which included an outstanding pair of matches against Becky Lynch at WrestleMania 38 and SummerSlam, ESPN writer Marc Raimondi described the Raw Women’s Champion as “an up-and-comer no longer,” instead referring to her as a “full-fledged superstar.” Not only is this put Belair near the longest reigning Raw Women’s Champion (that honor still belongs to Becky Lynch), it also make the EST of WWE the longest reigning African-American World Champion in the company’s history. [WrestleOps](https://twitter.com/WrestleOps/status/1582670390068928513) (via [Fightful](https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/bianca-belair-becomes-longest-reigning-black-world-champion-wwe-history)) pointed out that her reign, which started at WrestleMania 38 that April, was the longest single reign by an African American singles world champion in the company's history. [Pro Wrestling Illustrated](https://pwi-online.com/raw-womens-champion-bianca-belair-talks-equity-and-obstacles-during-virtual-summit-panel-for-front-office-sports/)) in June 2022, Belair explained that her fortunes changed when [WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry](https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2494114/why-wwes-big-show-chose-mick-foley-and-other-wrestlers-to-cameo-in-netflix-comedy) contacted her saying he could get her a tryout. In a 2017 [ESPN](https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=92X1640737&xcust=cinemablend_us_1043482820754754300&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com%2Fespnw%2Fculture%2Ffeature%2Fstory%2F_%2Fid%2F20418499%2Fmae-young-contestant-bianca-blair-seeks-fulfill-athletic-potential-wwe%3Faddata%3Despn%3Awwe%3Aindex&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cinemablend.com%2Fwrestling%2Fbianca-belair-6-awesome-facts-about-the-raw-womens-champion) (opens in new tab) profile on Belair, it was pointed out that Blair spent parts of her six-year track career competing for the University of South Carolina, Texas A&M, and the University of Tennessee, where she became an All-American and All-SEC athlete for her accomplishments on the track. In 2021, five years after making her professional debut, Belair was named the best female wrestler in the world, beating out the likes of Utami Hayashishita, Deonna Purrazzo, Britt Baker, and Thunder Rosa in the Top 5. After spending more than a year behind closed doors, WWE finally opened up to fans with the two-day WrestleMania 37 in April 2021, which provided an incredible weekend of wrestling and some of the most iconic moments in recent memory. Here are six awesome facts about [the incredibly entertaining Bianca Belair](https://www.cinemablend.com/television/the-most-entertaining-women-wrestlers-in-wwe-right-now), the EST of WWE, the Raw Women’s Champion. Belair told ESPN (the same profile as above) that nothing could be done about it, though she went to “a million doctors and chiropractors” in search of a cure. [six up-and-coming female WWE superstars](https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2490915/up-and-coming-female-wwe-wrestlers-to-watch-out-for) that could one day lead the Women’s Division.

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Switzerland's first women's ski champion (swissinfo.ch)

A look back at the life of the trailblazing skier from Glarus and the early days of women's downhill skiing.

Following her career as an amateur ski racer, in 1939 Rösli Streiff signed up to the first women’s recruits school and served as a truck driver in the women’s auxiliary military service. At the first combined downhill and slalom race organised by the SDS for women skiers from all countries, which was held in Grindelwald on January 15 of that year, she won both the downhill and the slalom, thereby taking the combined title. The delayed recognition of Streiff’s pioneering role and her modest yet self-assured manner meant that, in the eyes of the public, she only became a skiing heroine in later life, although in fact she had been one for many years. The SDS covered the women’s travel costs to Italy, as the national skiing association (SSV) was still reluctant to support women in alpine ski racing. Rösli Streiff travelled with three other women and the members of the men’s national team to Cortina d’Amprezzo, where the second World Ski Championships were held from February 4-6. The International Ski Federation (FIS) officially accepted the alpine disciplines of downhill and slalom for international competitions at its congress in Oslo in 1930. The following year, the first alpine World Championships for both men and women took place in Mürren in the Bernese Oberland from February 19-22. Like all downhill skiers, however, she was an amateur, which meant she spent most of her time in the office at her parents’ bleachery rather than on the slopes. Following her initial forays into competitive skiing, she joined the Swiss Women’s Ski Club (SDS), which was founded in Mürren in early 1929. Rösli Streiff won both the slalom and combined titles at the second Alpine World Ski Championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo in 1932. The Streiff family were sports enthusiasts: her father was a member of the Glarus Ski Club – the first in Switzerland – which was established in 1893, while Streiff and her three siblings did sports, from riding to climbing and skiing. After taking part in a ski tour with Streiff, he invited her to take part in the summer ski race on the Jungfraujoch, where she completed her first alpine ski race in 1928.

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Watch: SEVENTEEN's BSS Takes 1st-Ever Win For “Fighting” On ... (soompi)

SEVENTEEN's BSS unit has won their very first music show trophy as a unit! On the February 15 episode of “Show Champion,” the candidates for first place ...

cignature – “AURORA” Im Yoon Seong – “Alone” 8TURN – “Heartache” XG – “SHOOTING STAR” – TWICE’s “Feel Special” CSR – GFRIEND’s “Rough”

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Remembering Jack Johnson, the First Black Heavyweight Boxing ... (Sports Illustrated)

The Texas-born fighter faced down his opponents and took down the 'Great White Hope' movement that was designed to end his reign, but his legacy reaches ...

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Favour And Fortune handed Champion Bumper option (Racing TV)

Alan King will take a patient approach with Favour And Fortune, who remained unbeaten after taking a Warwick bumper with ease on Saturday.

The package includes a three-night stay at The Intercontinental Hotel and Premier Admission for both days. “He always takes a wee bit of time to get over a run, so I will just see what there is. He puts a lot into it.” I thought after the last he’d go away and win. He ran well at Warwick. “He is a horse we like a lot.

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"Redemption," "Better Champion" - WWE Universe believes Jinder ... (Sportskeeda)

Jinder Mahal was once at the top of SmackDown when he dethroned Randy Orton to win the WWE Championship. He went on to become one of the longest-reigning ...

Last month, Mahal returned to the brand after years and has already received a match for the NXT Championship against Bron Breakker. Fans want Mahal to dethrone Bron Breakker as NXT Champion and once again rule the division. After defeating the duo, Mahal shifted his focus towards Bron Breakker and challenged him to a match for the NXT Championship.

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Jack Johnson, Black Champion: 'PW' Talks with Youssef Daoudi and ... (Publishers Weekly)

'PW' talks with Youssef Daoudi and poet Adrian Matejka about 'Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century', a lyrically structured graphic ...

YD: Jack Johnson was very interesting, in the contrast between the beauty, the aesthetics of his discourse, and the brutality of the period and the brutality of society. And I feel like now, we've kind of gone in reverse, in a way that makes this book even more timely, even as it is also a historical document. One of the things we tried to convey in the book is that I don't think Jack Johnson ever let the truth get in the way of a good story. So we should acknowledge that he's behaving terribly, and the rest of the people of his time, not everybody, of course, but many others were [behaving] that way too. The virulent racists of that period portrayed Johnson as a brutish animal. AM: I remember, early on, we were having discussions about not making a graphic novel, but making an art book, and Youssef definitely achieved that with his art in the book. I wanted to make some kind of hybrid form of book, not of the illustration and text genre, which is fine. Some of the chapters are just about the business of boxing, which was useful, but a lot of them are Jack Johnson at his most fabulous. YD: We wanted to create meaningful pictures, to try to emulate some kind of immersion into the period. Born in Morocco and based in France, Daoudi's previous book is the acclaimed graphic biography, [Monk!: Thelonius, Pannonica, and the Friendship Behind a Musical Revolution](https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781626724341), which recounts the life and music of the iconoclastic jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk. Jeffries (1875-1953), a former heavyweight champion and “White Hope,” who came out of retirement to fight Johnson, and reaffirm white supremacy in the boxing ring and beyond. [The Big Smoke](https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780143123729), which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for poetry.

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