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Warsaw Community Public Library — 15 Years At The Library
InkFreeNews.com Posted Aug 16, 2025 Updated: Aug 13, 2025 @ 9:19 AM Amy Mann, also known as “Miss Amy,” is marking 15 years at Warsaw Community Public Library, where she guides young readers in finding books they enjoy. Photo provided by Warsaw...
B.C.'s Camryn Rogers wins women's hammer throw at Diamond League event in Poland
Olympic and world champion Camryn Rogers of Richmond, B.C., won the women's hammer throw at a Diamond League meet in Chorzow, Poland on Saturday. Jamaican Kishane Thompson captures men's 100m over American Noah Lyles CBC Sports · Posted: Aug 16,...

Kishane Thompson out-duels Noah Lyles in sizzling 100m showdown in Poland
Olympic silver medallist Kishane Thompson delivered a statement performance at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Silesia, Poland, storming to victory in the much-anticipated men’s 100 metres showdown against Olympic champion Noah Lyles. Thompson...
China defeats Argentina to reach 5th-place playoff at FIVB Women's U21 worlds
SURABAYA, Indonesia, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- China claimed a 3-1 victory over Argentina in the classification round for 5th-8th place at the 2025 FIVB Women's U21 World Championship on Saturday, advancing to the 5th-place playoff. Statistically, the...

Kipyegon shines in Poland, misses 3000m World record by just a second
Faith Kipyegon/X Triple Olympic 1,500m champion Faith Kipyegon has once again proved why she is regarded as one of the greatest athletes of all time after storming to victory in the 3,000m race at the Silesia Diamond League in Chorzów,...

Canada’s Rogers wins Diamond League gold in women’s hammer
Canada has earned two medals at the Diamond League meet in Silesia, Poland. Camryn Rogers of Richmond, B.C., won gold in the women's hammer throw on Saturday and Ethan Katzberg of Nanaimo, B.C., earned silver in the men's event. Rogers threw a...

Canada’s Rogers wins Diamond League gold in women’s hammer; Katzberg gets silver
By Canadian Press on August 16, 2025. SILESIA, POLAND — Canada has earned two medals at the Diamond League meet in Silesia, Poland. Camryn Rogers of Richmond, B.C., won gold in the women’s hammer throw on Saturday and Ethan Katzberg of Nanaimo,...

Polish–Ukrainian literary festival City with a River opens in Przemyśl
The Polish–Ukrainian literary festival City with a River has begun in Przemyśl. According to the organisers, “this is a new festival on the literary map of Poland. It arose from the need to create a space in Przemyśl, a border town, for dialogue...

Calgary’s Abigail Strate earns bronze at ski jumping Summer Grand Prix in Poland
WISŁA – Calgary’s Abigail Strate won her third consecutive medal on the Summer Grand Prix on Saturday, earning bronze in the women’s large hill test in Wisla, Poland. Strate, a graphic designer when not taking flight off hills around the world,...
Camryn Rogers wins women's hammer throw at Diamond League event in Poland
Olympic and world champion Camryn Rogers of Richmond, B.C., won the women's hammer throw at a Diamond League meet in Chorzow, Poland on Saturday. B.C's Ethan Katzberg finishes 2nd in men's hammer throw CBC Sports · Posted: Aug 16, 2025 10:58 AM...

Faith Kipyegon Wins Another Race in Poland
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon has won the 3000m women's race at the Silesia Diamond League in Poland. The race was held on Saturday, August 16, where she clocked an impressive 8:07.04. Kipyegon went desperately close to breaking the long-standing Women's...

Warsaw Noon Optimist Club Donates To CCS
InkFreeNews.com Posted Aug 15, 2025 Updated: Aug 15, 2025 @ 3:42 PM Pictured from left are Steve Martin, of the Warsaw Noon Optimist Club; Kiira Churchill and Ami Pitt, of Combined Community Services; and Kathy Hamman and Bill Cook, both of the...

World Athletics Gender Testing Challenges for 2025 Championships
The Canadian and French athletics federations are facing new challenges due to World Athletics regulations on gender testing for participants in women’s events at the 2025 World Championships. The new test is designed to determine biological sex...

Silesia Diamond League Highlights: Thompson Pips Lyles In Men's 100m Final; Duplantis Wins Pole Vault Event With 6.10m
Armand Duplantis had broken the men's pole vault record for the 13th time at the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest. Photo: Boglarka Bodnar/MTI via AP Another chapter was added to the Noah Lyles-Kishane Thompson men's 100m rivalry as the Jamaican...

The downfall of Hollywood heartthrob Olivier Martinez: The 'French Brad Pitt' with a string of award-winning roles and beautiful women on his arm is now unrecognisable and 'living off payments from ex Halle Berry'
He was once one of Hollywood's biggest heartthrobs and was dubbed the 'French Brad Pitt'. But two decades on from his Noughties heyday, Olivier Martinez is worlds away from the tall, dark and handsome actor after taking on bitter legal battles and...
Naser Set for Diamond League in Poland
TDT | Manama Email : hussainm@newsofbahrain.com Bahrain’s sprint sensation Salwa Eid Naser faces one of her toughest challenges of the season today as she lines up in a world-class women’s 400 metres at the Silesia Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in...

Poland halts payouts from EU Covid grants
(MENAFN) Poland has frozen payouts from an EU post-pandemic recovery program after revelations that some of the money was misused on luxury purchases and questionable projects. According to Politico, recipients of the hospitality and tourism...

Polish feast day Mass set for Aug. 24
YOUNGSTOWN — Polish Youngstown and St. Columba Cathedral will honor the Feast Day of Our Lady of Czestochowa, Eastern Europe’s most beloved Marian icon, with a special Mass at 11 a.m. Aug. 24 at St. Columba Cathedral, 154 W. Wood St. The...

Thompson, Lyles clash in Poland Diamond League
Jamaican Kishane Thompson and American Noah Lyles, separated by the narrowest of margins for the gold medal at last year’s Olympic Games, are to meet for the first since Paris in the men’s 100m race at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Chorzow,...

Polish feast day Mass set
YOUNGSTOWN — Polish Youngstown and St. Columba Cathedral will honor the Feast Day of Our Lady of Czestochowa, Eastern Europe’s most beloved Marian icon, with a special Mass at 11 a.m. Aug. 24 at St. Columba Cathedral, 154 W. Wood St. The...