LONDON
• Tottenham can be without goalkeeper Hugo Lloris for a cutting-edge Premier League ride to Southampton, with the French footballer laid low with contamination, supervisor Mauricio Pochettino said on Friday.
The club captain has begun all but certainly, one of Tottenham’s 23 league video games this season and best sat out of the 1-0 win over Crystal Palace in November with a muscle injury.
Third-choice goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga produced a stimulated overall performance on his debut towards Palace, but Lloris’ backup Michel Vorm is also suited to step in at St Mary’s.
PYEONGCHANG TO SEE FEWER RUSSIANS
LAUSANNE
• The number of Russian athletes eligible to take part at next month’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang has been reduced from a pool of 500 to 389, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Friday.
Last month, the IOC banned Russia from taking elements within the Games over nation-backed doping; however, easy Russian competition can be allowed to take part underneath strict conditions and under an impartial flag.
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BIRDIE SPREE LIFTS LANDRY TO THE TOP
LOS ANGELES • Andrew Landry fired seven birdies in a seven-beneath 65 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead over global No. Three golfer Jon Rahm inside the PGA CareerBuilder Challenge in California.
His sixteen-under overall of 128 placed him in advance of Spain’s Rahm, the overnight chief after a sizzling first-spherical 62, who carded a sixty-seven.
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COLEMAN REWRITES 60M INDOOR MARK
LOS ANGELES • World 100m silver medallist Christian Coleman opened his 2018 campaign using breaking the 60m indoor global report along with his 6.37sec on Friday.
The 21-year-antique American set the mark on the Clemson Invitational music meet to snap the previous report of 6.39sec held by compatriot Maurice Greene. His previous best turned into 6.45sec at ultimate year’s US collegiate indoor championships.
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OLDEST OLYMPIC MEDALLIST DIES AT 102
MILAN • Italian Carla Marangoni, who won a silver at the 1928 Games and become the oldest residing Olympic medallist, has died at the age of 102 years, the Italian Olympic Committee said on Friday.
Marangoni, who competed in gymnastics, turned into the best surviving participant of the 1928 Games in Amsterdam, where she competed for 12.
There had been several famous and completed people born in Southampton or who have lived there at some point in their lives.
Many of Southampton’s illustrious sons hail from the world of track. There’s Will Champion, the drummer of Coldplay, who was born in Southampton in 1978. Champion’s father, Timothy, is presently an archaeology professor at the University of Southampton, in which his mother changed into additionally a professor. Champion went to the Cantell secondary college in Basset Southampton, before moving to the University College London to study anthropology. That’s in which he could get together with his future band pals in Coldplay. Champion performed the guitar developing up, and names Tom Waits and conventional Irish people tune as among his early influences in the track.
R&B making a singing sensation and songwriter Craig David is every other Southampton product. He changed into born as Craig Ashley David in 1981 in the Holy Rood estate in the town center. His father is Grenadian at the same time as his mother is Jewish-English. David, who has bought over a 13million international albums (2007), attended Bellemoor School. David is proud to be a Southampton FC fan. He is satisfied to accurate people who think he roots for Leeds United (as portrayed via Leigh Francis in the famous comedy T.V. Show “Bo’ Selecta.” And how massive has Craig David grown to be? Singer-Songwriter Elton John became quoted as saying, “If there may be a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.”
BBC Radio One DJ Scott Mills also hails from Southampton, where he was born in 1974. He has made a name for himself in the UK lifestyle through his ‘drive time’ show on BBC Radio 1, dubbed as The Scott Mills Show. At the danger of dropping his listener base, Mills admitted his homosexuality to the click in 2001. In 2007, the Independent on Sunday’s Pink List named Mills as the 41st maximum influential gay individual in Britain
During the 17th century, Southampton becomes the birthplace of the “Father of English Hymnody,” Isaac Watts (July 17, 1674 – November 25, 1748). One of his nice regarded works, O God Our Help In Ages Past, is the King Edward VI College’s college hymn in Southampton. It is likewise the peal of the Civic Centre clock tower. Watts is identified as the first prolific and popular English hymn author, with over 750 hymns to his call. Many of them are nonetheless being used today and were translated into many languages. Watts attended the King Edward VI School, wherein one of the houses is now named in his honor. Moreover, he turned into a performed theologian and logician, and a writer of many books and essays on those subjects. A memorial of Isaac Watts stands at Westminster Abbey, the earliest surviving memorial constructed in his honor. On November 25, 2006, he became commemorated as a hymn writer in the Lutheran Church’s Calendar of Saints.
In the nineteenth century, Southampton produced any other top-notch artist, the British painter, and illustrator, Sir John Everett Millais (June 8, 1829 – August thirteen, 1896), recognized as most founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
The son of a leading Jersey-based own family, Millais distinguished himself with the aid of triumphing, at age eleven, a spot at the Royal Academy, an unparalleled feat at the time for someone so younger. In 1948, collectively together with his academy contemporaries William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Millais put together the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in Millais own domestic.
The famous worldwide comic Benny Hill is also made from Southampton, born as Alfred Hawthorn Hill in 1924. He attended the Taunton School and, all through World War II, turned into a few of the students who were moved to the Bournemouth School in East Way, Bournemouth. Upon graduation, he changed into the back at Southampton, in Eastleigh. He worked as a milkman, driving force, drummer, and bridge operator; however, he should most effectively spoil into the entertainment by operating as an assistant level manager. He might quickly comply with the tremendous British music corridocomedians’ stepsons, converting his name to Benny (in honor of his idol, Jack Benny) in the procedure. Despite his thriving comedy career, Hill spent a huge part of his existence residing together with his mom in Westrow Gardens in Southampton.
Two well-known radio and television personalities hint their roots to Southampton — worldwide radio presenter Andy Collins and naturalist TV presenter Chris Packham.
From the ranks of the defense force, Southampton boasts of Admiral John Jellicoe (December five, 1859-November 20, 1935), former commander of the British fleet and British Royal Navy admiral.
Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793-1877), a former dictator of Argentina, spent his closing years in Southampton. Rosas turned into the head of Argentina from 1829 to 1852. He is remembered as certainly one of Latin America’s first famous caudillos (effective political-army chief).
In sports activities, Southampton counts among its sons previous England and Southampton F.C. Soccer participant Matthew Le Tissier, who has lived in the town since the 1980s. Other popular residents are Olympic athlete Iwan Thomas and former tennis participant Wally Masur.