The U.S. has named its first divers to the Olympic team, with newcomers Krysta Palmer and Alison Gibson earning berths in women’s 3-meter synchronized. The duo came into the finals with a 21-point lead over second-place Kassidy Cook and Sarah Bacon. Palmer and Gibson consistently hit their dives in the final round, finishing with 899.82 points on Thursday night in Indianapolis.
Thursday was a busy day for several Minnesota athletes trying to reach the Tokyo Olympics. Alise (Post) Willoughby made her third U.S. Olympic team in BMX racing, former Gopher Sarah Bacon fell just short in 3-meter synchronized diving, and Regan Smith arrived in Omaha for the Olympic trials in swimming.With only 43 days until the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Summer Games, the selection .
âWhat do you call a memory that never happened?â 13-year-old Kyla asks an imaginary group of peers as she rehearses the speech she plans to give at a belated graduation ceremony for the Class of 2020, whose primary school career was cut short by the pandemic. As she starts secondary school and says goodbye to childhood, Kyla is grieving, not just for those formal markers of transition from one stage of life to another, but for the little personal markers of her self-identity: her ability as an organiser, her talent as a dance captain.
Kyla is the central character in Shaun Dunneâs new play What Did I Miss?, which was to be the centrepiece of the Dublin Theatre Festivalâs family programme in 2020, an annual partnership with the Ark, a cultural centre for children. Like all arts organisations around the country, the global pandemic presented the Ark with a challenge: how to reach young audiences when coming together is problematic.