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The Irish Sun
19-07-2025
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
Roger Black and British relay icons finally receive gold medals… 28 YEARS after controversial race tinged with tragedy
BRITAIN'S relay runners have finally received world championship gold medals…28 YEARS after the race took place. Roger Black, Iwan Thomas, Jamie Baulch, Mark Richardson and reserve Mark Hylton finished second in the men's 4x400 metres relay final behind the United States at the 1997 Worlds in Athens. Advertisement 3 Britain's relay runners have finally been given their gold medals 28 years after the World Championship race took place Credit: PA:Empics Sport 3 Great Britain's men's 4x400m relay team (left to right) Mark Richardson, Jamie Baulch, Roger Black, Iwan Thomas and Mark Hylton got the medals during a special ceremony Credit: PA The quartet ran a time of 2:56.65 while American sprinters Jerome Young, Antonio Pettigrew, Chris Jones and Tyree Washington came home first in 2:56.47 in the Greek capital. Yet a retrospective anti-doping violation by Pettigrew – in 2008 he was banned for two years after admitting he used prohibited substances – meant the Yanks were belatedly booted out of the event. This resulted in the Brits being upgraded to the gold medal position but it has taken almost three decades before they got their hands on the gongs. A special medal ceremony led by World Athletics President London Stadium on Saturday at 1.30pm on a wet afternoon in Stratford. Advertisement READ MORE SPORT And the British national anthem was also played in front of the sell-out crowd. UK Athletics say the presentation 'offers a long-awaited opportunity to celebrate a landmark moment in British athletics and to honour a team who exemplified fairness, resilience and excellence on the global stage'. Pettigrew, who was born in Georgia , was caught up in the BALCO doping scandal and admitted during the trial of former coach Trevor Graham that he had doped. As a result, the US Anti-Doping Agency annulled all of Pettigrew's competitive results after January 1997. Advertisement Most read in Golf 3 The American quartet (left to right) Tyree Washington, Chris Jones, Jerome Young and Antonio Pettigrew were stripped of their gold medal a few years ago Credit: Getty CASINO SPECIAL - BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM £10 DEPOSITS He also voluntarily surrendered his 2000 Sydney Olympics 4x400 metres relay gold medal and his 1997 and 1999 world championship relay golds. In August 2010, Pettigrew was found dead in the backseat of his locked car in North Carolina. He was 42 years old. Advertisement 'Freakish athlete' Anthony Elanga shows off insane 100m time ahead of Newcastle transfer An autopsy report said the cause of death was diphenhydramine toxicity – it was ruled that he had committed suicide by overdosing on a drug common to sleeping pills. One of the reasons it has taken so long to happen is that the five guys had not managed to coordinate diaries for an event taking place in the UK after it was all confirmed in 2021. Yet there is a bittersweet feeling among the contingent given that Pettigrew felt compelled to take his own life when his drugs shame went public. Welsh star Baulch, 52, said: 'I've said this to a few people now. If there was an option of giving this gold medal to him, I'd rather him have the gold medal than him taking his life. Advertisement 'His life is far more important to me than me having this gold medal.' Former European 400 metres champion Thomas, 51, said: 'On the one hand it's a real shame it's taken this long. 'On a personal level, it's really beautiful today. My son Teddy, who is six, is here today. I didn't have any children back then. 'My mum and dad are pretty elderly now. They're up in the box. For them to be able to see the moment I should have had with the boys 28 years ago, but in front of a British crowd, it felt really special.' Advertisement You're Not Alone EVERY 90 minutes in the UK a life is lost to suicide It doesn't discriminate, touching the lives of people in every corner of society – from the homeless and unemployed to builders and doctors, reality stars and footballers. It's the biggest killer of people under the age of 35, more deadly than cancer and car crashes. And men are three times more likely to take their own life than women. Yet it's rarely spoken of, a taboo that threatens to continue its deadly rampage unless we all stop and take notice, now. That is why The Sun launched the You're Not Alone campaign. The aim is that by sharing practical advice, raising awareness and breaking down the barriers people face when talking about their mental health, we can all do our bit to help save lives. Let's all vow to ask for help when we need it, and listen out for others… If you, or anyone you know, needs help dealing with mental health problems, the following organisations provide support: CALM, Heads Together, HUMEN Mind, Papyrus, Samaritans,
Scottish Sun
19-07-2025
- Sport
- Scottish Sun
Roger Black and British relay icons finally receive gold medals… 28 YEARS after controversial race tinged with tragedy
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) BRITAIN'S relay runners have finally received world championship gold medals…28 YEARS after the race took place. Roger Black, Iwan Thomas, Jamie Baulch, Mark Richardson and reserve Mark Hylton finished second in the men's 4x400 metres relay final behind the United States at the 1997 Worlds in Athens. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 3 Britain's relay runners have finally been given their gold medals 28 years after the World Championship race took place Credit: PA:Empics Sport 3 Great Britain's men's 4x400m relay team (left to right) Mark Richardson, Jamie Baulch, Roger Black, Iwan Thomas and Mark Hylton got the medals during a special ceremony Credit: PA The quartet ran a time of 2:56.65 while American sprinters Jerome Young, Antonio Pettigrew, Chris Jones and Tyree Washington came home first in 2:56.47 in the Greek capital. Yet a retrospective anti-doping violation by Pettigrew – in 2008 he was banned for two years after admitting he used prohibited substances – meant the Yanks were belatedly booted out of the event. This resulted in the Brits being upgraded to the gold medal position but it has taken almost three decades before they got their hands on the gongs. A special medal ceremony led by World Athletics President Seb Coe took place at the London Stadium on Saturday at 1.30pm on a wet afternoon in Stratford. READ MORE SPORT KEEL DEAL Bikini babe Keely Hodgkinson stuns in bath with fellow athletes joining comments And the British national anthem was also played in front of the sell-out crowd. UK Athletics say the presentation 'offers a long-awaited opportunity to celebrate a landmark moment in British athletics and to honour a team who exemplified fairness, resilience and excellence on the global stage'. Pettigrew, who was born in Georgia, was caught up in the BALCO doping scandal and admitted during the trial of former coach Trevor Graham that he had doped. As a result, the US Anti-Doping Agency annulled all of Pettigrew's competitive results after January 1997. 3 The American quartet (left to right) Tyree Washington, Chris Jones, Jerome Young and Antonio Pettigrew were stripped of their gold medal a few years ago Credit: Getty CASINO SPECIAL - BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM £10 DEPOSITS He also voluntarily surrendered his 2000 Sydney Olympics 4x400 metres relay gold medal and his 1997 and 1999 world championship relay golds. In August 2010, Pettigrew was found dead in the backseat of his locked car in North Carolina. He was 42 years old. 'Freakish athlete' Anthony Elanga shows off insane 100m time ahead of Newcastle transfer An autopsy report said the cause of death was diphenhydramine toxicity – it was ruled that he had committed suicide by overdosing on a drug common to sleeping pills. One of the reasons it has taken so long to happen is that the five guys had not managed to coordinate diaries for an event taking place in the UK after it was all confirmed in 2021. Yet there is a bittersweet feeling among the contingent given that Pettigrew felt compelled to take his own life when his drugs shame went public. Welsh star Baulch, 52, said: 'I've said this to a few people now. If there was an option of giving this gold medal to him, I'd rather him have the gold medal than him taking his life. 'His life is far more important to me than me having this gold medal.' Former European 400 metres champion Thomas, 51, said: 'On the one hand it's a real shame it's taken this long. 'On a personal level, it's really beautiful today. My son Teddy, who is six, is here today. I didn't have any children back then. 'My mum and dad are pretty elderly now. They're up in the box. For them to be able to see the moment I should have had with the boys 28 years ago, but in front of a British crowd, it felt really special.'
Daily Mirror
04-07-2025
- Science
- Daily Mirror
Lost plane of legendary pioneer Amelia Earhart 'found' with 'parts spotted'
Amelia Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937, over the Pacific Ocean en route to Howland Island from Lae, New Guinea, in one of the most enduring mysteries in aviation history Amelia Earhart, the trailblazing American aviator who vanished 88 years ago during her world flight attempt, remains shrouded in mystery. The American pilot Amelia and her navigator Fred Noonan embarked on a historic global trek that took them over the Pacific Ocean. After departing from New Guinea in July 1937, they aimed to touch down on a minuscule island. On July 2, 1937, aviation icon Amelia went missing above the Pacific Ocean – she was expected to arrive at Howland Island, just north of the equator, but she never made it. With cutting-edge technology and satellite imagery now at our disposal, there's a chance we might finally uncover her long-lost aircraft, reigniting the age-old question: What happened to Amelia Earhart? Archaeologist Dr Rick Pettigrew is optimistic that new satellite photos could shed light on this enigma – he's persuaded that the images reveal parts of the lost plane, reports the Mirror US. The remnants of the plane's tail, wing, and fuselage are thought to be resting on an isolated island in the vast Pacific. In a newsreel from July 1936, Amelia spoke about her aircraft, stating: "It's a real flying laboratory equipped with the latest of instruments." She piloted a state-of-the-art Lockheed Electra 10-E when she mysteriously disappeared. At that time, she expressed her ambition: "With it, I hope to accomplish something really scientifically worthwhile for aviation." Yet, merely a year later, Amelia and Mr Noonan vanished without leaving any clues or evidence of a crash landing. Now, archaeologist Mr Pettigrew has developed a theory - after examining the satellite images - he believes they landed on a different island. His hypothesis is that they reached Nikumaroro, an island south of Howland after overshooting Howland Island, their intended destination. Pettigrew described this as 'not a crash landing', but a 'successful landing on the reef with an intact aircraft'. Speaking to WISH TV, he explained: "I think it's likely Amelia was planning to be rescued, refueled, take off again and make it to Hawaii and continue on to California to complete her journey. We know there are radio transmissions from her for a period of about 4 or 5 days. She was basically sending out SOS." United States Navy aircraft scoured the Pacific Ocean back in 1937, but never located Amelia and Fred Noonan. It's thought that weather conditions, sea and tides could have demolished the aircraft over time. Possibly, the fuselage and tail was swept across the expanse of salt water to the far shore, experts such as Pettigrew suggest. If it is Amelia's aircraft it remained hidden for many decades, in 2015 it appears the wreckage was exposed after a cyclone weather event - then the plane parts became visible from space. Pettigrew has now teamed up with Purdue University - they will travel to verify if it's the aircraft - the team will head to the island this November (2025). The Purdue Research Foundation will assist with funding the expedition - Amelia was employed at Purdue University when she vanished in 1937. Pettigrew holds high hopes that this could be the lost aircraft in which Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan attempted to circle the globe nearly nine decades ago. Should they confirm the plane's identity this November, a comprehensive excavation will ensue, with plans to return it to the research university.
NBC News
02-07-2025
- Science
- NBC News
Researchers announce new effort to find Amelia Earhart's plane
Researchers on Wednesday announced a new expedition to find Amelia Earhart's plane, based on evidence that suggests the famed aviator may have crash-landed on a remote island in the South Pacific. A satellite photo may appear to show the remains of Earhart's plane peeking through the sand on the small, remote and inhospitable island lagoon of Nikumaroro in Kiribati, nearly 1,000 miles from Fiji, according to Richard Pettigrew, the executive director of the nonprofit Archaeological Legacy Institute in Oregon. In one of the world's most intriguing mysteries, Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished while attempting to fly around the world exactly 88 years ago on July 2, 1937. Now, Purdue University — which had employed Earhart and helped fund her historic flight — said it will send a team to Nikumaroro in November in hopes of digging up her Lockheed Electra 10E aircraft and returning what's left of it. 'We believe we owe it to Amelia and her legacy at Purdue to fulfill her wishes, if possible, to bring the Electra back to Purdue,' Steve Schultz, Purdue's general counsel, said. The satellite photo was captured in 2015, a year after an intense tropical cyclone shifted the sand, potentially revealing the plane, said Pettigrew, who took the evidence to Purdue. He said the size and composition of the object matches Earhart's plane. The location is also close to Earhart's planned flight path and almost precisely where four of her radio calls for help seem to originate, said Pettigrew, who has traveled to Nikumaroro. 'It satisfies all the criteria,' he said. 'Everything fits.' The archaeologist, who has tried to solve Earhart's disappearance for years, said other evidence, including the discovery of American-made tools and a medicine vial, suggests Earhart may have been on Nikumaroro. And in 2017, four forensic dogs and a team of archaeologists with the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) ventured to Nikumaroro, where the canines indicated they had detected the scent of human remains, according to National Geographic. Still, there's been no clear proof of her presence there, Pettigrew said, and the object seen in the satellite photo has been elusive. In images taken since 2015, it is hidden under the sand again, he said. 'What we lack now so far is what you call, what I call the smoking gun evidence,' he said. TIGHAR executive director Ric Gillespie doubts they will find that proof. Gillespie's team on The Earhart Project has conducted a dozen expeditions over 35 years and recovered other physical evidence they believe shows Nikumaroro is where Earhart landed and died. But he believes the object in the satellite image is a coconut palm tree with a root ball, washed up in a storm. 'We've looked there in that spot, and there's nothing there,' he said. Gillespie, who published the book "One More Good Flight: The Amelia Earhart Tragedy" last year, said the plane would not be hidden in the sand but buried in coral rubble. 'I understand the desire to find a piece of Amelia Earhart's airplane. God knows we've tried,' he said. 'But the data, the facts, do not support the hypothesis. It's as simple as that.' Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The trailblazer worked at Purdue, serving as a career counselor for women and an adviser on its aeronautical engineering department, from 1935 until her disappearance in 1937, according to the university's website. Schultz, Purdue's general counsel, said Earhart's post-flight plan was to return the plane to the school to be studied by future aeronautical engineers and aviation students. The Purdue Research Foundation has given the first phase of the expedition a line of credit of $500,000, Schultz said. It will take six days for the team of explorers to get to Nikumaroro by boat in November, he said. They'll then have another five days on the island to find the object in the sand and identify it as the missing plane. 'If we hopefully solve the mystery and confirm that it is, then there will be further efforts to bring it back, hopefully to a permanent home,' Schultz said.
Scoop
21-05-2025
- Business
- Scoop
Eastland Generation Goes To Market With Offtake Tender
Press Release – Eastland Generation TOPP2 is part of Eastland Generations diverse renewable energy portfolio that includes three other geothermal power plants in the Bay of Plenty, Tairwhitis first utility scale solar farm and a hydroscheme in Hawkes Bay. New Zealand's latest geothermal power plant is on track to be commissioned towards the end of 2025. Eastland Generation is now going to market seeking tenders for the offtake. TOPP2, a 49MW Ormat binary plant, is situated on the Kawerau Geothermal Reservoir, and its completion will mark several major milestones for Eastland Generation. 'This is our largest geothermal project to date, and showcases our partnership approach to development,' says Eastland Generation Chief Executive Alice Pettigrew. 'It's a unique project, with Ngāti Tūwharetoa Geothermal Assets Limited (NTGA) providing a long-term supply of geothermal energy to the station and managing the wells and steam field. Land is leased from Ngāti Tūwharetoa Holdings Ltd. With the supply of geothermal heat to the new station, TOPP2 will be NTGA's largest customer. 'When TOPP2 is fully operational, Eastland Generation will have achieved the next phase of its growth strategy, bringing our total renewable energy generation portfolio to well over 100MW. 'Notably, this is also our first major geothermal project since Obayashi Corporation acquired a 50% stake in the company in April last year.' TOPP2 is part of Eastland Generation's diverse renewable energy portfolio that includes three other geothermal power plants in the Bay of Plenty, Tairāwhiti's first utility scale solar farm and a hydroscheme in Hawke's Bay. Once construction is completed, testing and commissioning will get underway, and the station is expected to be fully operational by the end of the year. Eastland Generation's overall operating capacity will increase from 69MW to 118MW, and generation from 477GWh to 898GWh. The company is actively exploring additional renewal energy projects, with a development pipeline including further geothermal and solar opportunities. Eastland Generation has partnered with Marex to support TOPP2's electricity sales and is now undertaking a Request for Proposal process with interested parties and market participants. 'As an independent generator, working with Marex gives us access to a diverse range of customers and deeper insights into what customers, including industry, really need. 'We're open to discussing a range of contract options to suit potential purchasers, including Corporate Power Purchase Agreements, Contract for Differences, and direct contracting,' says Ms Pettigrew.
