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Teenagers dominate women’s Olympic street skateboarding

Jul 27 2021 Share

During yesterday’s street skateboarding final held at the Ariake Urban Sports Park, three youths made a name for young athletes as all three podium finishes were occupied by teenagers.  Skateboarding, a new Olympic sport which made it’s debut this summer, has rocked the world because of the amount of teenagers taking part and dominating in the sport.

Yesterday’s women’s street final will go down in history as it resulted in the youngest podium in Olympic history. The final was won by Momji Nishiya, a 13-year-old Japanese skateboarder who is now known as the second youngest athlete to ever win a Gold medal. The youngest ever was Marjorie Gestring an American diver who achieved this feat in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The podium finishes were completed by Rayssa Leal, a-13-year-old Brazilian who would have became the youngest ever Gold medal recipient had she won, and Funa Nakayama an exciting 16-year-old Japanese skateboarder who has competed in many other tournaments down the years.

 

 

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This achievement may further encourage youth to compete and take part in sports and in this instance, skateboarding which certainly has a future in all Olympics held going further and also shows how much teenagers can achieve if they work hard.

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Three year jail sentence for Somali human trafficker

Woman who beat husband with rolling pin and kettle released on bail; which victim offered to withdraw
Jul 27 2021 Share

A Somali resident of Zabbar named Omar Adam, 26, has been sentenced to three years in prison after admitting to human trafficking charges. Charged before magistrate Ian Farrugia this morning by police Inspector Karl Roberts, Adam was accused of having assisted people in entering or leaving the island illegally for money. He did so on the 20th of July 2021 and in the preceding months. 

Adam was also charged with assisting an illegal entry into Malta, making false declaration in a public document and filing a false report with the police.  In view of the admission, three years in jail was given as sentence by the court. 

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Photo Source: Kamra tal-Periti

142 COVID-19 cases registered with 174 recoveries

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Malta has registered 142 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 4,031 swab tests, while 174 patients have recovered. No deaths were registered in the past 24 hours. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.

As of Monday 26th July 2021, 746,883 vaccine doses were administered of which 393,967 were 1st doses. 371,802 people are currently fully vaccinated. 

To date, Malta has registered 33,904 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 30,857 have recovered, 421 died and 2230 are still active.

Mater Dei Hospital is currently treating a total of 37 COVID-19 positive patients, one of which is in the ITU. The average age of yesterday’s cases was 34.

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Huge turnout outside of Parliament as mobile units administer vaccines

Huge turnout outside of Parliament as mobile units administer vaccines
Jul 27 2021 Share

Images surfacing online show huge lines of people awaiting to receive their free COVID-19 vaccination outside parliament. The parliament, which just his weekend was circled by anti-vaxx protestors, is now met with what seem to be hundreds of people waiting to receive their jab. 

Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne posted to Facebook commending the great turnout at the walk-in vaccination clinic. Concerns were raised however as to the apparent lack of social distancing, despite the people being there to receive the jab for immunisation. 

Chairman of the Valletta Cultural Agency commented on the situation, took to Facebook to comment in the situation, rhetorically asking whether deciding to vaccinate this large amount of people in the Maltese capital city’s main entrances during tourism’s peak season. 

He asks whether finding a different location would have eased the confusion in the capital’s entrance as people flock to receive the jab. 

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Photo Source: Jason Micallef FB, Chris Fearne FB