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Beth Dobbin sprinted for Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics, but four years on, her world has shrunk to a bed. Diagnosed with ME, the former two-hundred-metre international now spends twenty-two hours a day bedbound, with no cure in sight. It is a brutal reminder that the body that carries athletes to the highest stage can just as suddenly take everything away.
Shifting to the ice, the Florida Panthers may have finally unlocked Brady Tkachuk. Six games in, the newly acquired winger had zero goals and looked like a very expensive question mark. Then back-to-back natural hat tricks happened, making him the first player to pull that off in consecutive games since nineteen eighty-six. The Tkachuk brothers experiment is very much alive.
And over in Philadelphia, the Embiid era may be drawing to a close. Reports suggest the seventy-sixers are weighing a blockbuster trade that would send Joel Embiid out of Philly in exchange for a future Hall of Famer and former NBA champion. For a franchise built around a man who never quite stayed healthy enough to win it all, the calculus may finally be shifting.
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