College athletes ability to earn money from endorsements. They spoke at a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing. Good morning, everyone. The committee the subcommittee will come to order. Were honored to have the chairman with us this morning, and i expect senator blumenthal to join us momentarily. As chairman of this subcommittee with jurisdiction over amateur athletics i welcome all of you to todays hearing entitled name, image, likeness, the state of intercollegiate compensation. The expectation or hope is that we might limit ourselves to that kuip of conversation but i have no control over my colleagues or what the witnesses may say that may take us broader in scope. I look forward to hearing from our witnesses. Im appreciative of all of them being here but especially the chancellor of my alma mater the university of kansas, the president of the collegiate Athletic Association and two former student athletes. In my home state we have a rich history of College Athletics. The womens s
Have the chairman with us this morning, and i expect senator blumenthal to join us momentarily. As chairman of this subcommittee with jurisdiction over amateur athletics i welcome all of you to todays hearing entitled name, image, likeness, the state of intercollegiate compensation. The expectation or hope is that we might limit ourselves to that kuip of conversation but i have no control over my colleagues or what the witnesses may say that may take us broader in scope. I look forward to hearing from our witnesses. Im appreciative of all of them being here but especially the chancellor of my alma mater the university of kansas, the president of the collegiate Athletic Association and two former student athletes. In my home state we have a rich history of College Athletics. The womens soccer team won their first title last year. In my hometown of Manhattan College football at kansas staet university and a legacy continued by the current coach and Athletic Director gene taylor and who c
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Lovers of swimming in the water from 7 00 am. I m in lufar, everything is so clean, beautiful, light, finally such a wonderful Swimming Pool has appeared in our area, because this is also very important for me. Brothers are on the starting platform as world champions bolotovs. Swimming for karatekas is an obligatory part of training; they say its great, it builds up endurance. Famous athletes are the first guests of the renovated ska Swimming Pool. Another level altogether. Cabins, yes, cabins, there is a sauna, you can warm up after the pool. Its very cool that athletes are given such an opportunity to train in such places; we didnt have this in our time, we always trained in simple conditions. Electronic scoreboard, timing system, no need to calculate the result with a stopwatch anymore, everything is maximal exactly. A special feature of the updated pool is a mobile platform that can divide the bowl into two parts in literally 5 minutes, while increasing the number of lanes to 16. T
With us. A helicopter from the ministry of emergency situations in kamchatka evacuated nine tourists who survived an avalanche. Rescuers and Group Members had to walk part of the way to the landing site due to the difficult terrain and the danger of new ones. Half, bad weather prevented the bodies of two dead from being collected, they will be taken out later, about the reasons why the campaign turned into a tragedy. Alexandra ostrikova. On board the mi8 helicopter of the Russian Ministry of emergency situations , victims of the avalanche, despite extremely unfavorable weather conditions, rescuers managed to evacuate the group. Nine people were rescued, two died, their bodies will be delivered later. Avalanche survival phase is 18 minutes. 35 minutes under the snow is already the point of no return. No matter how highly professional the rescuers are, even using a helicopter, they need time to fly, find and dig out, here the main question arises was the group equipped with everything ne