universities have put in place mandatory vaccination requirements in the last 72 hours. the president backing away from his previous stance that the vaccine would not be mandatory for federal workers. he s saying this. watch. would you require all federal employees to get vaccinated? that s under consideration right now. if you re not vaccinated, you re not as smart as i thought you were. emily: dagen, the president is now telling those unvaccinated that they re not as smart as he thought they were. will this tactic work to change minds? baseball and bureaucrats have no subtlety of human nature. the more you tell somebody to do something, oh, you have to do this, the more you might be skeptical about it. scolding people and calling them stupid, i wrote this down, these people wouldn t be able to give away sweet tea and cantaloupe at a summer sunday church picnic. the combination of rude and often creepy is not the way to convince people to get vaccinated. perfectly le
developments on the bbc website. from the team, it is goodbye. meanwhile the news continues right here with all our colleagues from the nations and regions across the uk, so it is over to you. goodbye. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m isaac fanin. coming up in the programme: emotional and physical abuse was systemic in british gymnastics, according to a new independent review. the new premier league fixtures are out. this is child abuse of athletes and a very young age and that has a monumental impact on the rest of our lives the white the new premier league fixtures are out. the white champions manchester city take on west ham united to start the season. england women start their final preparations for the european championship against belgium tonight. also coming up in the programme. rory mcilroy makes an excellent start at the us open. he s back in the clubhouse and has the lead. and we speak to one fourth of britain s gold medal winning s14 mixed relay team. we start w
Tragic news. Australian Olympic hopeful Brittany George, an aerial skier, was found dead in Brisbane on January 27. She was reported missing from the same
Look, being an athlete is tough. a normal response would be to say it s a shame that she s going through this, it s a shame that she quit. instead what our press has done is turn this into this weird therapeutic moment. let s praise her. that s where the problem lies. it s not simone biles. it s the media. i talked to one of my closest friends who was an elite gymnast who is still a coach and knows a lot of the people there. i ll point out, harris, you raised the issue of dr. larry nassar.. he sexually abused more than 100 girls. this is simone biles first
Olympic gold medalist Dominique Dawes says the new docuseries ‘‘Golden: The Journey of USA s Elite Gymnasts’ lifts the curtain on the pressures to make the U.S. Olympic team. Dawes, the first African-American gymnast to win an individual event medal, also discusses the rise of Black athletes in the sport. (June 25)