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‘I’m disappointed and I’m not alone’: Matty Lee hits out at Olympic president’s ‘amateur’ stance on pay

Olympic gold medallist diver reflects on the financial and emotional challenges since retiring from the sport and teaming up with his hero Tom Daley“It’s like I’ve already got an open wound and you’re stabbing me in it,” Matty Lee says as, deep into our second hour at a beautiful old Edwardian swimming pool in Leeds, we turn to Kirsty Coventry’s recent comments that athletes should not be paid at the Olympic Games. In her role as president of the International Olympic Committee, Coventry, a...

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Car bomb kills senior Russian military official near Moscow

Video appears to show Col Damir Davydov’s BMW bursting into flames and bystanders pulling him from wreckageA senior Russian military official has been killed in a car bombing near Moscow, according to media reports. An explosive device planted underneath a BMW detonated at about 5.30am on Tuesday as Col Damir Davydov was driving near his home in the city of Balashikha, the independent outlet Astra reported. It was the latest in a string of assassinations targeting Russian military officials...

Twin sisters who fought off crocodiles unveil new project to save species that attacked them

Twin sisters who fought off crocodiles unveil new project to save species that attacked them Georgia Laurie, 33, punched a crocodile in the jaw to save her twin sister Melissa from certain death during a trip to Mexico - and the pair are now leading a campaign to help save the reptiles A pair of British twins who fought off crocodiles to save their lives have backed a new conservation project to help save the species that attacked them. Georgia Laurie, 33, from Sandhurst, Berkshire, leapt in...