In their World Cup qualifier against North Macedonia in Skopje, Wales boss Craig Bellamy praised his “incredible group” of players.
Bojan Miovski capitalized on Joe Allen’s loose pass in the opening minute of extra time to score. The hosts had already figured out how to score all three points.
In the final seconds, however, David Brooks scored for Wales to keep Bellamy’s unbeaten start as Wales manager.
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Amber Anning could finally put the highs and lows into perspective by staring out from the 61st floor and admiring Nanjing’s glass-and-steel skyline.
After being disqualified for a lane infringement at the European Indoor Championships in the Netherlands, she was reduced to tears two weeks prior.
She had already won the 400-meter world indoor title three hours earlier in China, reclaiming her place as a leading British woman.
And she had already lost once more a short while earlier.
Jeremiah Azu, the 60m world indoor champion, and Amy Hunt, the 60m finalist, went up to the top floor of our hotel that evening to play cards and listen to some music, she told BBC Sport.
“That was our celebration,” the statement read. Really cool and had a nice, understated vibe. However, I actually lost every game. I was so upset!
“Jeremiah won twice or three, Amy won,” but I couldn’t, despite winning the 400-meter hurdle, which was the most crucial event. “
Anning has a propensity to find herself trumps when it matters in her brief career.
She competed in Budapest while still a student and was awarded a world bronze medal with Britain’s 4x400m team.
She won two relay medals before moving on to the 2024 Olympic final in Paris, breaking the legendary Christine Ohuruogu’s British record and placing in fifth place.
Her ascent to the top of the game has been fashionable.
She set a championship record last summer when she captured the British title, leaving Laviai Nielsen and Jodie Williams in the dust.
With 175 meters left, Alexis Holmes bumped her in Nanjing on the tight turns of an indoor track.
Anning slants back, back, and possibly out of the woods.
But she regrouped herself, snuck into Holmes’ lead, blasted off the final bend, and defeated her rival.
Just three-hundredths of a second from her winning margin.
She said, “You have so much time to think with 400m, which is different from 60m where you just get it done.”
What are you going to do before now and the end to get your gold medal, I said to myself when I was pushed, “This is not how you visualized it, this is not the execution you wanted”?
“I had to wait, be patient, stay in touch with her, and then time it to perfection.
When I watched it back, I realized that I wasn’t winning if I had chosen to do it even a second earlier or later. How it functions is strange.
Anning’s replacement for Ohuruogu as the British record holder has a beautiful symmetry.
When Ohuruogu was in its early years, Lloyd Cowan, who led the team’s career, also coached Anning. He was 58 years old when he died in January 2021 from complications brought on by a Covid-19 infection.
He reminded me of my track dad, Anning said. Just being surrounded by him felt so warm. Such a difficult defeat, to say the least.
“I believed I would be here with him today, accomplishing this, and I know he would be proud of me.”
It’s nice to have the record kept in the family, which we do.
On the board of the Lloyd Cowan Bursary, Anning’s mother serves alongside Ohuruogu, helping to lower financial barriers for promising young athletes and coaches who might otherwise be disadvantaged by athletics.
If Cowan had influenced Anning’s early potential, American intelligence has been improved.
Anning left the UK for Louisiana State University as a teenager after her mother encouraged her.
Armand Duplantis, the 100-meter world champion, and Sha’Carri Richardson, the alma mater, inspired her to push herself.
She said, “I needed that extra push because I felt maybe a little too comfortable over here [in the UK].”
You can tell that every day you see success in your face.
Only a small percentage of people are going to make it because the population is so large and there are so many people there. Perhaps they want it even more because they are aware of the slimmer chances.
It took some time.
Anning acknowledges that she was “not as disciplined as I should have been” initially in Louisiana before moving to Arkansas, where there was a less lively party scene and a 400-meter elite team.
It is a testament to how hard she grinds to beat Holmes, the most successful American, over 400 meters.
Other well-known opponents might be worth considering.
The all-time top 400m hurdles champion, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, ran the seventh-fastest 400m time of 2024 in a September invitational race, and is thought to be using Michael Johnson’s Grand Slam Track on flat.
Femke Bol, a native of the Netherlands, holds the 400-meter indoor world record after winning gold in Glasgow last year.
Anning will be prepared if they square up against her.
She remarked, “Let them come. I enjoy competing because it improves the lives of others.
That simply means I need to work out more, work harder, and do a little bit better to stay top and up there.
This video is not playable.
Amber Anning could finally put the highs and lows into perspective by staring out from the 61st floor and admiring Nanjing’s glass-and-steel skyline.
After being disqualified for a lane infringement at the European Indoor Championships in the Netherlands, she was reduced to tears two weeks prior.
She had already won the 400-meter world indoor title three hours earlier in China, reclaiming her place as a leading British woman.
And she had already lost once more a short while earlier.
Jeremiah Azu, the 60m world indoor champion, and Amy Hunt, the 60m finalist, went up to the top floor of our hotel that evening to play cards and listen to some music, she told BBC Sport.
“That was our celebration,” the statement read. Really cool and had a nice, understated vibe. However, I actually lost every game. I was so upset!
“Jeremiah won twice or three, Amy won,” but I couldn’t, despite winning the 400-meter hurdle, which was the most crucial event. “
Anning has a propensity to find herself trumps when it matters in her brief career.
She competed in Budapest while still a student and was awarded a world bronze medal with Britain’s 4x400m team.
She won two relay medals before moving on to the 2024 Olympic final in Paris, breaking the legendary Christine Ohuruogu’s British record and placing in fifth place.
Her ascent to the top of the game has been fashionable.
She set a championship record last summer when she captured the British title, leaving Laviai Nielsen and Jodie Williams in the dust.
With 175 meters left, Alexis Holmes bumped her in Nanjing on the tight turns of an indoor track.
Anning slants back, back, and possibly out of the woods.
But she regrouped herself, snuck into Holmes’ lead, blasted off the final bend, and defeated her rival.
Just three-hundredths of a second from her winning margin.
She said, “You have so much time to think with 400m, which is different from 60m where you just get it done.”
What are you going to do before now and the end to get your gold medal, I said to myself when I was pushed, “This is not how you visualized it, this is not the execution you wanted”?
“I had to wait, be patient, stay in touch with her, and then time it to perfection.
When I watched it back, I realized that I wasn’t winning if I had chosen to do it even a second earlier or later. How it functions is strange.
Anning’s replacement for Ohuruogu as the British record holder has a beautiful symmetry.
When Ohuruogu was in its early years, Lloyd Cowan, who led the team’s career, also coached Anning. He was 58 years old when he died in January 2021 from complications brought on by a Covid-19 infection.
He reminded me of my track dad, Anning said. Just being surrounded by him felt so warm. Such a difficult defeat, to say the least.
“I believed I would be here with him today, accomplishing this, and I know he would be proud of me.”
It’s nice to have the record kept in the family, which we do.
On the board of the Lloyd Cowan Bursary, Anning’s mother serves alongside Ohuruogu, helping to lower financial barriers for promising young athletes and coaches who might otherwise be disadvantaged by athletics.
If Cowan had influenced Anning’s early potential, American intelligence has been improved.
Anning left the UK for Louisiana State University as a teenager after her mother encouraged her.
Armand Duplantis, the 100-meter world champion, and Sha’Carri Richardson, the alma mater, inspired her to push herself.
She said, “I needed that extra push because I felt maybe a little too comfortable over here [in the UK].”
You can tell that every day you see success in your face.
Only a small percentage of people are going to make it because the population is so large and there are so many people there. Perhaps they want it even more because they are aware of the slimmer chances.
It took some time.
Anning acknowledges that she was “not as disciplined as I should have been” initially in Louisiana before moving to Arkansas, where there was a less lively party scene and a 400-meter elite team.
It is a testament to how hard she grinds to beat Holmes, the most successful American, over 400 meters.
Other well-known opponents might be worth considering.
The all-time top 400m hurdles champion, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, ran the seventh-fastest 400m time of 2024 in a September invitational race, and is thought to be using Michael Johnson’s Grand Slam Track on flat.
Femke Bol, a native of the Netherlands, holds the 400-meter indoor world record after winning gold in Glasgow last year.
Anning will be prepared if they square up against her.
She remarked, “Let them come. I enjoy competing because it improves the lives of others.
That simply means I need to work out more, work harder, and do a little bit better to stay top and up there.
About 125, 000 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), valued at about 125 million, have been seized in Kebbi State by Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) agents in a significant blow to fuel smugglers.
According to Persecondnews, this massive seizure, which was carried out as part of “Operation Whirlwind,” is the largest fuel bust since the initiative’s inception.
Fuel smuggling poses a significant economic threat, according to ACG Hissaini Ejibunu, the national coordinator of Operation Whirlwind, on Tuesday, contributing to revenue losses, artificial scarcity, and security risks.
According to Ejibunu, “We are committed to dismantling these smuggling networks,” “Fuel smuggling is a major economic threat.”
4 375 jerrycans, each 25 litre, and 54 200 litre drums, each contained the confiscated fuel.
Prior to being intercepted in Tsamiya, officers had been watching the trucks being loaded with the fuel. They were registered in the Republic of Benin.
The collaboration between the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) and the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) was credited with the operation’s success.
The officers’ vigilance was commended by Customs Comptroller-General Bashir Adeniyi, who also thanked Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, the country’s top economic crime advisor, for his leadership.
Adeniyi urged Nigerians to report suspicious activity in support of Customs’ anti-smuggling efforts.
“This operation demonstrates the effectiveness of inter-agency collaboration. We are still holding economic saboteurs accountable and destroying smuggling networks, Adeniyi said.
With the resignation of Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja, the legal dispute between suspended senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan and the Nigerian Senate has taken a dramatic turn.
The judge announced that he would be stepping aside as a result of a petition that the judge filed against the judge, which alleged the judge was impartial, when the case was scheduled for hearing on Tuesday.
Egwuatu made a statement stating that he would turn over the case file to the Chief Judge, who would then designate a new judge.
The judge effectively halted the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions from pursuing disciplinary actions against Akpoti-Uduaghan on March 4 according to Persecondnews’ previous reporting.
The senator is accused of breaking the Senate’s code of conduct and rules.
Egwuatu also provided the defendants with 72 hours to explain why the court shouldn’t launch an investigation into the Senator without violating the provisions of the 1999 Constitution, Senate Standing Order 2023, and Legislative Houses (Powers and Privileges) Act.
He gave the defendants’ attorneys permission to use substituted means to serve legal documents on them.
The court ordered that the legal documents be delivered either by posting them on the National Assembly’s premises or by handing them over to the clerk of the assembly.
Additionally, the court mandated that the documents be made available for public viewing through at least two national newspapers.
Following Akpoti-Uduaghan’s urgent application, the interim order was issued.
The Senate Committee convened in spite of the court’s ruling, which led to Akpoti-Uduaghan’s six-month suspension.
Justice Egwuatu revised and revised his initial order after receiving the defendants’ requests.
He lifted the bar that the Senate could not pursue the senator’s legal challenge while the case was pending.
The court’s authority to interfere with Senate affairs was challenged by the legal team representing Akpabio, led by Mr. Kehinde Ogunwumiju (SAN).
Sen. Akpoti-Uduaghan’s heated argument sparked serious allegations of sexual harassment and defamation, which escalated to serious allegations of defamation and harassment against Akpabio.
With the resignation of Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja, the legal dispute between suspended senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan and the Nigerian Senate has taken a dramatic turn.
The judge announced that he would be stepping aside as a result of a petition that the judge filed against the judge, which alleged the judge was impartial, when the case was scheduled for hearing on Tuesday.
Egwuatu made a statement stating that he would turn over the case file to the Chief Judge, who would then designate a new judge.
The judge effectively halted the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions from pursuing disciplinary actions against Akpoti-Uduaghan on March 4 according to Persecondnews’ previous reporting.
The senator is accused of breaking the Senate’s code of conduct and rules.
Egwuatu also provided the defendants with 72 hours to explain why the court shouldn’t launch an investigation into the Senator without violating the provisions of the 1999 Constitution, Senate Standing Order 2023, and Legislative Houses (Powers and Privileges) Act.
He gave the defendants’ attorneys permission to use substituted means to serve legal documents on them.
The court ordered that the legal documents be delivered either by posting them on the National Assembly’s premises or by handing them over to the clerk of the assembly.
Additionally, the court mandated that the documents be made available for public viewing through at least two national newspapers.
Following Akpoti-Uduaghan’s urgent application, the interim order was issued.
The Senate Committee convened in spite of the court’s ruling, which led to Akpoti-Uduaghan’s six-month suspension.
Justice Egwuatu revised and revised his initial order after receiving the defendants’ requests.
He lifted the bar that the Senate could not pursue the senator’s legal challenge while the case was pending.
The court’s authority to interfere with Senate affairs was challenged by the legal team representing Akpabio, led by Mr. Kehinde Ogunwumiju (SAN).
Sen. Akpoti-Uduaghan’s heated argument sparked serious allegations of sexual harassment and defamation, which escalated to serious allegations of defamation and harassment against Akpabio.