Sunday, 2 May 2021
Belgium s Charline Van Snick is to return to competition at the upcoming International Judo Federation Kazan Grand Slam, having avoided undergoing surgery on a torn ankle ligament.
The London 2012 bronze medallist in the women s under-48-kilogram category took to
Twitter to confirm her participation at the last Grand Slam event before the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Following a test match at the Boulogne-Billancourt club in Paris, Van Snick will travel to Russia for the competition which is set to take place from Wednesday (May 5) to Friday (May 7).
In February, Van Snick injured her ankle at the Tel Aviv Grand Slam during a win over France s Priscilla Gneto and was forced to withdraw from her bronze-medal match against Kosovo s Majlinda Kelmendi.
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From left, front, Sophie Berger and Calleigh Frederickson; back, Carter and Hunter Dauer
NEW ULM Four area youth seventh-graders Calleigh Frederickson, Sophie Berger and Hunter Dauer, and second-grader Carter Dauer advanced to Destination Imagination’s Global Finals after placing third in the Affiliate (state) Tournament in the Scientific Challenge at the middle school level. The group, called Lunchbox Productions, will compete virtually with middle school teams from across the globe June 7-22.
The kids of Lunchbox Productions created a video presentation of their story that fulfilled several specific objectives and solved a problem set out by Destination Imagination (DI). In the Scientific Challenge, they were directed to explore what would happen if a scientific law were broken. In addition, the team completed a shorter Instant Challenge, which this year meant a challenge that had to be solved and submitted by video in the span of three days. Scores from