Tokyo paralympics marathon to start earlier due to heat fears

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TOKYO, Aug 13, (RTRS): The marathon race at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics will start 30 minutes earlier than originally scheduled, as part of the organisers’ efforts to tackle the heat threat to athletes and fans in the Japanese capital.

With less than a year to go until the start of the Olympics, the Games’ ability to contend with extreme heat is a

SPALDING COUNTY, Georgia, Aug 13, (AP): Sherman Poppen, the snowboard inventor who laid the groundwork for a multibillion-dollar industry, has died. He was 89. Poppen died July 31 at his home in Griffin, Georgia. In 1965, while living in Michigan, Poppen was looking for a way to entertain his daughters on a snowy Christmas Day. So he strapped two skis together and held them in place with wooden crossbars. His wife dubbed it a “Snurfer.” A year later, he got a patent on the contraption.

Jake Burton Carpenter improved on the design and helped bring the snowboard to the masses. But Carpenter never took credit for the invention that eventually found its way to the Olympics.

Carpenter told Snowboarder Magazine that Poppen not only was “the guy that started snowboarding,” but he “never gave up on it.”

In this file photo dated Aug 7, 2012, Ruslan Albegov of Russia competes during men’s over 105-kg weightlifting competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. (AP)