Judith Monarrez says she never stopped looking for her chihuahua after he escaped from the backyard in 2015
Judith Monarrez crumpled onto her kitchen floor and wept when the news arrived in an email: Gizmo, her pet dog missing for nine years, had been found alive.
Monarrez was 28 and living with her parents in 2015 when Gizmo, then two years old, slipped past a faulty gate in the backyard of their home in Las Vegas.
Swimming is splashing into the confines of a rugby stadium with all eyes on whether world records will be smashed
Olympic swimming rarely disappoints, and it starts on Saturday with the women’s 100m butterfly heats. As excitement builds, many are wondering if the pool will produce record-breaking performances to light up the Games.
First things first; in Paris there is a separate venue for the swimmers in Nanterre while the divers and artistic swimmers get to star in the £151m purpose-built aquatics centre in Saint-Denis. So much for the hype around a flexible pool. Instead, the swimming events will be held in the Paris La Défense Arena where two 50m temporary pools have been built in what is normally a 30,000-seat rugby stadium.
Fate has swung wildly in her favour, with everything from the Democrat establishment to memes on her side. Will we finally see a Madam President?
A week has always been a long time in politics, but this might have been the longest week in Kamala Harris’s life. While Joe Biden is still technically the US president, he already feels irrelevant. All eyes are on Harris now. The speed with which she has gone from being one of the most unpopular vice-presidents in modern history to sitting at the top of the Democratic ticket, with an army of enthusiastic fans behind her, is astounding. Biden’s trajectory has been widely compared to a Shakespearean tragedy; Harris’s sudden reversal of fortune, meanwhile, is like something out of a fairytale.
A quick recap: Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris on Sunday. The Democratic establishment then threw its weight behind her on Monday. So did hundreds of thousands of donors; Harris’s campaign raked in a record-breaking $81m in just 24 hours. By Tuesday, she had earned enough support from delegates to win the Democratic nomination for president next month. On Wednesday, Democrats approved rules meaning that any Democrat who wants to compete against Harris for the nomination only has days to do so. Then, on Friday, Barack Obama endorsed the vice-president. Her coronation is almost complete.
The English coach was brought into transform a team that had stumbled badly at last year’s World Cup. The early signs are encouraging
For US women’s national team manager Emma Hayes, just one roadblock seemed to be troubling her team as they made their way to France for their Olympic opener: the invisible brick wall that had been erected in front of goal.
In the team’s two pre-Olympic warmup friendlies, Hayes’ squad had 43 shots. Just 18 landed on target, and only one resulted in a goal. The team showed in a 1-0 win over Mexico and a 0-0 draw with Costa Rica that they had improved as an attacking unit over the course of Hayes’ first games in charge, but their ability to finish off plays was in question.