The US Golf Association has decided to stop using the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster as the venue for the PGA Championship in 2022. The decision comes barely a week after the Capitol was taken. The private work of outgoing President Donald Trump was named as the venue for the PGA Championship two years from now in 2014. Due …
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New Zealand Prime Minister calls for new elections | Abroad
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced new parliamentary elections on Tuesday. They will take place on September 19. The Prime Minister has led a center-left coalition since 2017 and wants to run for a second term. Speaking at a press conference, Ardern said: “I ask New Zealanders to continue to support my leadership and the direction of the government. …
Read More »Netherlands and neighboring countries want women’s football in the World Cup | 1Limburg
The Dutch football association KNVB wants to organize the Women’s World Cup with Germany and Belgium in seven years. Two years ago, the KNVB had already expressed its ambition to bring the World Cup to the Netherlands. The field of participants in the world final being subsequently widened from 24 to 32 countries, the association asked Germany and Belgium to …
Read More »Rugby players sing the Australian national anthem in the Aboriginal language. A first
They have already done it in New Zealand: for an international sports competition, half of the national anthem has been sung since 1999 in the language of the Maori, the original population. All players will sing loudly. In Australia, they weren’t that far yet. There has been a broad social debate about the national anthem for years. Criticism: the text …
Read More »The gymnast who lifted one leg on landing | sport
Every day we celebrate a historic sporting moment of the same date. Today July 23, 1996: Injured Kerri Strug wins gold in gymnastics for the United States. Atlanta’s Georgia Dome holds its breath. It’s July 23, 1996, the Summer Games have been going on for a few days, and Kerri Strug is ready for her last Nations Cup jump. The …
Read More »Cookbook: “Hunting is not about shooting, it’s about eating” | 1Limburg
Roasted raccoon, squirrel in sauce, deer cooked in Coca-Cola. Here are a number of recipes from the book Op Jacht by photographer and writer Isabella Rozendaal (37) from Maastricht. Rozendaal has been photographing animals for years and accompanying hunters in the Netherlands, Germany, the United States and Brazil since 2007. She herself is trained in hunting, learning how to kill …
Read More »Orange footballers to train against world champion USA
Sunday November 15, 2020, 4:20 p.m. IJSSELSTEIN / NIEUWEGEIN – Dutch national team footballers play a friendly against the United States on November 27. Orange meets the world champion at the Rat Verlegh Stadium in Breda. This is the first time the two countries will meet after the 2019 World Cup final in Lyon, in which ‘Team USA’ was 2-0 …
Read More »Football players see the difference with the United States is still big
“It was a completely different game, in terms of pressure and atmosphere,” said forward Jill Roord. “We played football every now and then, but we always created too little. I think we were more on the ball than in the World Cup final. I think it was a very good one. test match to see where we are at. I …
Read More »Black-tailed Godwit Breaks Record with Longest Non-Stop Flight: Alaska to New Zealand | Science
A barge broke the world record for the longest non-stop flight on a trip between Alaska and New Zealand. The Guardian writes that the meadow bird has covered a distance of over 12,000 kilometers in 11 days. The bar-tailed barge, banded as 4BBRW, took off from the U.S. state of Alaska on September 16. There, the animal had feasted on …
Read More »Road marking on a dead opossum in New Zealand: ‘You had a task’
The photo of the dead opossum (a marsupial also called voskoesoe in Dutch) was taken in Pukekohe, a town on the North Island of New Zealand near Auckland. New road markings have been applied to a dead opossum. Plague In New Zealand, dead possums regularly lie on the side of the road. Animals are a huge nuisance in the country …
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