Meryl Davis wins ‘Dancing with the Stars’

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Meryl Davis added a mirror ball trophy to her full set of Olympic medals, winning “Dancing with the Stars” on Tuesday.

The ice dancer Davis and partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy were voted the victorius couple for Season 18, beating finalists U.S. Paralympic snowboarder Amy Purdy and actress Candace Cameron Bure, who is married to two-time Russian Olympic hockey medalist Valeri Bure.

Davis added the accolade to her 2010 Olympic silver medal and 2014 Olympic gold and bronze medals with ice dancing partner Charlie White. In Sochi, they became the first U.S. ice dancers to win an Olympic title.

White also competed on “Dancing with the Stars” this season and was eliminated last week.

Davis, 27, became the fourth Olympian to win the mirror ball trophy, joining Apolo OhnoKristi Yamaguchi and Shawn Johnson.

Here’s the history of Olympians and Paralympians competing on “Dancing with the Stars:”

Season 1 – Evander Holyfield (1984, boxing)
Season 4 – Apolo Ohno (2002-2010, short track speed skating) — WINNER, Clyde Drexler (1992, basketball)
Season 5 – Floyd Mayweather Jr. (1996, boxing)
Season 6 – Kristi Yamaguchi (1992, figure skating) — WINNER, Monica Seles (1996-2000, tennis)
Season 7 – Maurice Greene (2000-2004, track and field), Misty May-Treanor (2000-2012, volleyball)
Season 8 – Shawn Johnson (2008, gymnastics) — WINNER
Season 9 – Louie Vito (2010, snowboarding), Natalie Coughlin (2004-2012, swimming)
Season 10 – Evan Lysacek (2006-2010, figure skating)
Season 12 – Sugar Ray Leonard (1976, boxing)
Season 13 – Hope Solo (2004-2012, soccer)
Season 14 – Martina Navratilova (2004, tennis)
Season 15 – Shawn Johnson, Apolo Ohno
Season 16 – Dorothy Hamill (1976, figure skating), Aly Raisman (2012, gymnastics)
Season 18 — Meryl Davis (2010, 2014, figure skating) — WINNER, Charlie White (2010, 2014, figure skating), Amy Purdy (2014, snowboarding)

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Wimbledon reverses ban on Russia, Belarus tennis players

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Russian and Belarusian players will be able to compete at Wimbledon as neutral athletes after the All England Club on Friday reversed its ban from last year.

The players must comply with “appropriate conditions,” including not expressing support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

They also must not receive funding “from the Russian and/or Belarusian states (including sponsorship from companies operated or controlled by the states) in relation to their participation in The Championships,” the All England Club said in a statement.

Other tennis tournaments have allowed Russian and Belarusian players to compete as neutral athletes.

“We also consider alignment between the Grand Slams to be increasingly important in the current tennis environment,” the club said. “There was a strong and very disappointing reaction from some governing bodies in tennis to the position taken by the All England Club and the LTA last year with consequences which, if continued, would be damaging to the interests of players, fans, The Championships and British tennis.”

This year’s Wimbledon tournament will start on July 3. The women’s final is scheduled for July 15 and the men’s final on July 16.

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2023 World Junior Gymnastics Championships live stream schedule

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The world junior gymnastics championships individual finals stream live on the International Gymnastics Federation YouTube channel from Friday through Sunday.

Already this week, Japan swept the men’s and women’s team titles in Antalya, Turkey. The U.S. women took silver.

The U.S. women in Friday’s all-around final are Izzy Stassi (qualified fourth) and Jayla Hang (qualified 22nd). The U.S. men in Friday’s all-around final are Kai Uemura (qualified 11th) and David Shamah (qualified 14th).

Americans also advanced to four of this weekend’s apparatus finals: women’s vault (Stassi, Hang), uneven bars (Hezly Rivera) and floor exercise (Rivera, Hang) and men’s still rings (Uemura).

Gymnastics added a biennial junior worlds starting in 2019. The 2021 edition was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Women ages 14 or 15 and men ages 15 through 18 compete.

The U.S. team in 2019 included future senior world team members Skye Blakely, Kayla DiCello and Konnor McClain.

2023 World Junior Gymnastics Championships Live Stream Schedule

Day Competition Time (ET) Platform
Friday Men’s All-Around 7:30 a.m. FIG YouTube | LIVE STREAM LINK
Women’s All-Around 12 p.m. FIG YouTube | LIVE STREAM LINK
Saturday Apparatus Finals 7 a.m. FIG YouTube | LIVE STREAM LINK
Sunday Apparatus Finals 7 a.m. FIG YouTube | LIVE STREAM LINK

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