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December 6, 2023 2:56 PM EST
TIME has chosen Taylor Swift as Person of the Year, Lionel Messi as Athlete of the Year, and Sam Altman as CEO of the Year. This reflects the editors’ assessment of the individuals who most shaped the headlines over the previous 12 months, for better or for worse.
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TRACK & FIELD
It had been a long, hard, frustrating year for Jim Ryun. The lanky, 19-year-old University of Kansas sophomore had faithfully logged his usual 120 miles a week in practice and competed in 30 meets from New York to California. He set U.S. records for 800 meters and two miles, ran the fastest half mile (1 min. 44.9 sec.) in history. But he failed by one-tenth of a second to tie Michel Jazy’s world record for the mile.
Okay, guys, the gist is that Charles Anazodo isn't happy with Tiwa Savage for walking past him without saying hello. The media personality and football analyst made this known via his Twitter page on Thursday, October 3, 2019. "@TiwaSavage was a guest on @THEBEAT999FM earlier today, arrived and walked past @kallyjoe and me, and didn't have the courtesy to say hello. I guess being a superstar gives you the right to be discourteous,"
April 9, 2014 10:14 AM EDT
Remember those photos of Anne Hathaway almost drowning in Hawaii? The actress dropped by The Tonight Show Tuesday night to clear things up.
When Jimmy Fallon asked Hathaway about the photograph, which shows only her head above water and her mouth mid-yell, she explained she had been caught in a riptide for a few minutes but was fine after the moment passed. The only problem was communicating that she wasn’t in any danger to her understandably concerned husband Adam Shulman.
Full Name: Sarah Virginia Wade
Profession: Tennis Player and Three-Time Major Champion
Biography: Won three Grand Slam singles championships and four Grand Slam doubles championships, and is the only British woman in history to have won titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments.
Born: July 10, 1945
Birthplace: Bournemouth, England Age: 79 years old Generation: Silent Generation
Chinese Zodiac: Rooster
Star Sign: Cancer
Playing Career 1968-09-07 US Open Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: England's Virginia Wade wins first Open era US singles title; beats Billie Jean King 6-4, 6-2 1972-01-02 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Virginia Wade of England wins her first Grand Slam title; beats home favourite Evonne Goolagong 6-4, 6-4 1977-07-01 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Hometown favourite Virginia Wade beats Betty Stöve of the Netherlands 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 1977-09-02 One of the great anti-climaxes in sport; 43-year-old transsexual Rene Richards, who fought for over a year for right to play in a major event, is beaten 6-1, 6-4 by Wimbledon champion Virginia Wade at the US Open Famous Tennis PlayersncG1vNJzZmivp6x7sLrToaCsnJGue6S7zGinnqegobJwwsirnqKmmZZ6uK3Dng%3D%3D