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Tested positive for a banned substance. the ioc has delayed the medal ceremony for the team figure skating event due to what theyre describing as, quote, legal consultations. >> cnn sports analyst and national sports columnist for "usa today" christine brennan has been following the story, reporting on this story. and she joins us now with more. as you know better than us, russia is not competing in this olympics under the country name due to the revelation of a broad national doping program for...

And affected their mental health. dr neil smith is from the national centre for social research which led the study — he explained a little earlier how surprised he was with the results. we know that young people who are from socially disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to have poor mental health and have lower levels of attainment, that was not surprising, but what was surprising was that when we accounted for those background factors and equalised all young people to have the same leve...

Something called implicit bias and achieve racial equity. we know where this is going. the administrators who underwent training racial equity meant favoring or disfavoring based clearly on skin color. regardless of economic or other background factors and certainly regardless of their ability. in one case, administrators were told to give preference african-american students over and above poor white students because color trumps all. well, others who work in the school system say they were dem...

Under the rule of chancellor richard, the school city has meant unless of dollars to train administrators to fight something called implicit bias and achieve racial equity. we know where this is going.re the administrators who underwent training were told that racial equity meant favoring or disfavoring based clearly on skin color, regardless of economic or other background factors uncertainly regardless of their ability. in one case, administrators were told to give preference two middle-class ...