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At just 17 years old, Evie Davis has already represented Team GB at the European Swimming Championships and set a British swimming record.
But when pools closed during the pandemic, the teenager from Bromley, south London, found herself having to train in a makeshift paddling pool.
Her next challenge is the European Junior Championship in Rome this week, but she also hopes to make it to the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
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Throughout its history, the Austrian chess community has seen a number of outstanding female players. Paula Kalmar-Wolf, Gisela Harum and Salome Reischer even had the chance to represent Austria at the Women s World Championships. However, the best Austrian-born female player was Eva Moser, and while she never got the opportunity to participate in a World Championship like her predecessors, she nonetheless represented her country admirably in numerous other international tournaments.
Born on July 26th, 1982 in the small town of Tamsweg and raised in Spittal an der Dau, Eva Moser began playing tournament chess at the age of ten. In secondary school, a class mate encouraged her to join the chess club. A mere few months later, she showed her exceptional talent at a school chess tournament in Klagenfurt, where she scored four wins and one draw as the youngest participant. Shortly afterwards, she joined a chess club in Spittel, which was quite unusual for a
Mourning Nicky Booth
Matt Bozeat on the life and death of a troubled talent, Nicky Booth
THE troubled life of Nicky Booth, the former British and Commonwealth bantamweight champion, came to an end last week (January 13). He was 40 years old.
Former manager Mike Shinfield broke the news on Facebook.
He said Booth died of “liver problems and cellulitis” at the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham.
Booth had battled addiction for years and was sentenced to six months in prison in 2004 after he was convicted of robbery and burglary, crimes committed to pay for his crack cocaine addiction.
After his release, Nicky talked of fighting again and teamed up with Matt Scriven, the former hard pro who was managing and promoting at the time.