Midnight Oil and Paul Kelly to headline rescheduled Bluesfest event Photo by Awais Butt
Bluesfest has just revealed the lineup for its rescheduled 2021 event.
Following the heartbreak of that fateful April cancellation, Bluesfest Byron Bay has officially revealed the lineup for its recently-rescheduled 2021 event.
The festival, which is now slated to go down from Friday October 1 to Monday October 4 at its usual home at Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm, has retained all Australian acts who were originally locked in to appear at the April festival, and now features two very special headliners on the bill.
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Bluesfest has just revealed the lineup for its rescheduled 2021 event, adding two special names to the bill
Canada skips Olympic gymnastics qualifier over Covid-19 fears
May 9, 2021
Canada will skip a last-chance gymnastics qualifier for the Tokyo Olympics next month in Rio over Covid-19 safety concerns, officials announced Friday.
Gymnastics Canada will not send a team to the 2021 Senior Pan American Championships in Brazil on June 4-13, passing up a chance to qualify one more gymnast in men’s and women’s artistic events and an individual and group in rhythmic competition. Brazil is in the grip of an escalating Covid-19 crisis, with more than 416,000 deaths from the virus, the highest death toll in the world after the United States.
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Gymnastics Canada said on Friday they have decided not to enter teams in the Pan American Championships being held in Brazil due to health and safety concerns resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The June 4-13 event in Rio de Janeiro was Canada s last chance qualifier event for the Tokyo Olympics in men s artistic, women s artistic, and rhythmic gymnastics. We realize the impact these decisions have on our athletes, especially those senior athletes that have dedicated so many years to their ambition of competing at the Olympic Games, Gymnastics Canada Chief Executive Ian Moss said in a statement.
Gymnastics Canada skipping Olympic qualifier because of COVID-19 concerns
by The Canadian Press
Posted May 7, 2021 5:35 pm EDT
Rene Cournoyer of Canada falls as he performs on the horizontal bar during the American Cup gymnastics competition Saturday, March 7, 2020, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Gymnastics Canada will not send a team to a last-chance Tokyo Olympic qualifier because of COVID-19 concerns.
The organization announced Friday it will not send athletes to the 2021 Senior Pan American Championships in Rio de Janeiro from June 4-13.
The event was Canada’s last chance to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics in men’s artistic, women’s artistic and rhythmic gymnastics.
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As Darlington Raceway prepares for its first of two NASCAR visits this season, track officials announced Friday they plan to fully open the grandstands for the Southern 500 on Labor Day weekend.
The raceway will hold the Goodyear 400 on Sunday to limited spectators. Darlington President Kerry Tharp said that will change this summer when the series returns when there will be no limits on fans. Darlington Raceway has a seating capacity of about 47,000.
Tharp thanked South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is helping the facility re-open fully for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic hit in the spring of 2020. This is the first time since 2004 the track has had two scheduled races for the NASCAR Cup Series.