A former Olympic gymnast has earned social media fame at the age of 47 by showing off her enduring flexibility and acrobatic prowess in a series of awe-inspiring TikTok videos. Aurelia Dobre, who now lives in Maryland with her husband and their four sons, spent three years competing for Romania in both the Olympics and … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES The 2020 Olympic Games has been postponed until 2021 on March 24 – becoming one of the last major sporting events this summer to fall victim to the coronavirus. Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe held a crucial conference call with Olympics chief Thomas Bach on Tuesday to formally decide a plan and … Read more
A Japanese expert who criticised the country’s response to the coronavirus warned the healthcare system is ‘on the verge of collapse’ and that the Olympics may not be able to go ahead even in 2021. ‘The system is on the verge of collapse in many places in Japan,’ said Kentaro Iwata, a professor of infectious diseases … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has appointed a ‘personal protective equipment tsar’ to take on the shortage of supplies across NHS trusts in the UK. Lord Deighton, 64, has been appointed to get a grip on the situation, as thousands of doctors and nurses across the country are being forced to work without the correct PPE. … Read more
Extensive work to repair Notre-Dame cathedral has ground to a halt a year after it was nearly destroyed by a devastating blaze. Work was suspended on the Paris 13th-century cathedral, one of the world’s most revered monuments, amid France‘s coronavirus crisis. It means President Macron‘s promise to have the UNESCO heritage site restored within five years in time for … Read more