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posted. WADA previously warned of cyberattacks after investigators it had appointed published reports into Russian state-sponsored doping. “These criminal acts are greatly compromising the effort by the global antidoping community to re-establish trust in Russia,” World Anti-Doping Agency director general Olivier Niggli said in a statement. WADA said it “extended its investigation with the relevant law enforcement authorities.” Last month, hackers obtained a database password for Russian runner Yuliya Stepanova, a whistleblower and key witness for the WADA investigations. She and her husband, a former official with the Russian national anti-doping agency, are now living at an undisclosed location in North America.

A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected WADA’s statement blaming Russian hackers as unfounded. “There can be no talk about any official or government involvement, any involvement of Russian agencies in those actions. It’s absolutely out of the question,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies. “Such unfounded accusations don’t befit any organization, if they aren’t backed by substance.” The International Olympic Committee said it “strongly condemns such methods which clearly aim at tarnishing the reputation of clean athletes.” “The IOC can confirm however that the athletes mentioned did not violate any antidoping rules during the Olympic Games Rio 2016,” the Olympic body said.

The top American anti-doping official said it was “unthinkable” to try to smear athletes who followed the rules and did nothing wrong. “The cyberbullying of innocent athletes being engaged in by these hackers is cowardly and despicable,” said Travis Tygart, CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. The name “Fancy Bears” appears to be a tongue-in-cheek reference to a collection of hackers that many security researchers have long associated with Russia. In a statement posted to its website Sept. 13, the group proclaimed its allegiance to Anonymous, the loose-knit movement of online mischief-makers, and said it hacked WADA to show the world “how Olympic medals are won.” “We will start with the U.S. team which

has disgraced its name by tainted victories,” the group said, adding that more revelations about other teams were forthcoming. Internet records suggest Fancy Bears’ data dump has been in the works for at least two weeks; their website was registered on Sept. 1 and their Twitter account was created on Sept. 6. Messages left with the group were not immediately returned. A French name and phone number associated with the site both appeared to be bogus. A mailing address listed by the hackers appeared to point to a florist east of Paris; messages left with the business were not immediately returned.

more affluent women. A fact the Northwestern Medicine research found common among study participants. “Many women are in need of help with their depression and coping with daily life, but they don’t seek it out because of limited access

School of Medicine in Chicago. “Our study shows that there are alternatives to traditional mental health treatment, such as mindbody approaches, that effectively alleviate symptoms, and can be done autonomously in the comfort of their own home.”

home. “I was depressed because my body was not mine anymore and it wasn’t just that I had gained weight, but that I also was out of breath and could not carry the weight very well,” Rainey told the AFRO. “Once my doctor cleared me to start taking heated yoga, my weight went down quickly and my balance returned.” At Waterside Fitness and Swim Club in Ward 6, Edith Hickman, Patricia Bennett, and Margarita Torres, are among a group of ladies who enjoy the benefits of yoga in an indoor pool with instructor Pamela Wilson. “I needed the exercise after knee replacement surgery and found that the water was a pleasant experience. My doctor said I would not have come this far along had I not joined this class,” Hickman told the AFRO. “A lot of people want to exercise, but either don’t feel their bodies can tolerate jumping around, so they are inside watching television. Yoga works for all body types, ages, and races, and if you can get into a class like this one where you do it in a pool, it is even better.”

Associated Press writer Raphael Satter in London and Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow contributed to this report.

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and stretching techniques – are improving their overall mind and body functions. “I used to hear those people with those mantras going ‘Ohm’ and thought it was devilment,” Kay-Ann Mitchell, a retired postal worker told the AFRO, laughingly. “It was a new experience to walk into the class and see Black women from wall-to-wall and a Black instructor. Once I saw improvement in my mobility after just one class, I started Ohm-ing louder than anyone.” She said that before joining a yoga class provided by the Hillcrest Department of Recreation, she experienced both the physical symptoms of joint pain from hip replacement surgery, and mental anxiety caused by the loss of income following her husband’s death. Mitchell said that although race had a lot to do with accepting yoga as a mental health alternative to drugs because “some things Black people just ought not do,” she also had to get over the idea that yoga was designed for

Yoga works for all body types, ages, and races, and if you can get into a class like this one where you do it in a pool, it is even better.”

–Edith Hickman

to high-quality mental health services and the stigma within their families and communities,” said Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg

For Tomiko Rainey, gaining more than 100 pounds carrying twins, brought weakened muscle tone, stressed joints, and a need to get rid of the baby fat quickly. Living in the Petworth area of Northwest D.C., Rainey said the yoga classes she had taken during college in California were initially not available. But, three months after her twin sons were born, a new studio opened just blocks from her

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Penn State, 7-0. While 30,000 looked on at the Yankee Stadium last Saturday Myers, carrying the ball for frequent gains, drove the violet in to victory. Called “Half the Team” So powerful was Myers that one white writer referred to him as “Half of the N.Y.U. team.” Another spoke of him as a “human catapult, who flung himself recklessly at the whiteshirted Penn State line, and who reaped all the N.Y.U. glory.” Chick Meehan, N.Y.U. coach, said an inmpied agreement existed between the two colleges not to use colored players. Mrs. Myers is not eager for her son to play. She fears Southerners would intentionally seek to cripple him. Meehan admitted that Georgia “would try to put Dave out.” Writing of Myers, Ed. Sullivan says in the Graphic: “If a New York City university allows the Mason-Dixon line to be erected in the center of its

playing field, then that New York City university should disband its football team for all time.” Myers Praised “Dave Myers is a fine type of colored boy. The fact that he has served as president of the student council at Stuyvesant High School, the highest elective honor in the school, proves his caliber. If the University of Georgia cannot see its way clear to allow Myers to play against the Southern team, the N.Y.U. should cancel the game. Regardless of how Myers may feel about it and no matter how willing he may be to subordinate his claims to the unfair demands of his school, New York University should not deliberately cruelly affront this colored lad.” “Last Saturday it was this Dave Myers who singlehanded beat Penn State for N.Y.U. It was Myers pulled out of the line to become an offensive back, who supplied the scoring punch that the Violets lacked against Fordham the week

previous.” “Playing clearly and well, Myers has covered himself with glory at New York University, risking his neck for a school that will now turn around and bench him because University of Georgia asks that the colored line be drawn.” “What a shameful state of affairs this is. And I believe the colleagues call it sportsmanship. “ Has Precedents Demands of Southern white schools that race athletes be barred from games in which they play is not new. Last year Ray Vaughn, Colgate star, now coaching at Morehouse College, felt the sting of prejudice he was dropped from the lineup when Colgate played Vanderbilt and Virginia Polytechnic. The previous year Vaughn did not make the trip when Colgate played the Naval academy, because it was felt that he “would not be welcome at Annapolis.” Transcribed by Terrance Smith

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