Italian skier Elena Fanchini is ending her season a month before the Pyeongchang Olympics due to a tumor.
Without providing details J'Mon Moore Jersey , Fanchini says she is undergoing a series of medical exams ”and my intention is to return to skiing next season.”
The 32-year-old Fanchini won a silver medal in downhill at the 2005 world championships and has won two World Cup races in her career – both in downhill.
Fanchini started this season with a fourth place in a downhill in Lake Louise, Alberta, but had struggled in recent races. She was aiming to compete in her fourth Olympics.
Fanchini’s younger sister, Nadia, is also a World Cup ski racer.
Italian winter sports federation president Flavio Roda says Tony Gonzalez Jersey , ”I want Elena to know that we are all behind her and her family and that we will be awaiting her return to the ski course.”
A Turkish court has accepted an indictment charging the father of NBA player Enes Kanter with ”membership in a terror group,” the country’s official news agency reported Monday.
The indictment followed an investigation of Mehmet Kanter, and prosecutors planned to seek his conviction and a prison term of five to 10 years at trial, Anadolu Agency said.
It’s unclear when the trial in western Tekirdag province would begin.
Enes Kanter, who plays for the New York Knicks Travis Kelce Jersey , is a follower of a U.S.-based Turkish cleric who the government accuses of masterminding a failed military coup in 2016. Cleric Fethullah Gulen has denied the allegation, but tens of thousands of people suspected of ties to his network have been arrested or fired.
The elder Kanter, a professor, was purged from public service after the coup attempt and detained for five days last summer.
Anadolu said the indictment alleges he contacted some 120 suspects with alleged links to Gulen, including dozens who were said to have communicated through an encrypted messaging application.
Enes Kanter Trae Waynes Jersey , a former Oklahoma City Thunder center, has been a vocal critic of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. His Turkish passport was canceled last year.
Prosecutors charged him in December with insulting the president in a series of tweets. They want to try him in absentia and have him sentenced to more than four years in prison, if he is convicted.
”Keep my family, innocent people in your prayers,” the basketball player tweeted Monday with the hashtag ”DictatorErdogan.” His Twitter account is withheld in Turkey.
Under a state of emergency declared in the aftermath of the coup Mike Daniels Jersey , Turkey has arrested more than 50,000 and sacked some 110,000 people alleged to have infiltrated state institutions for Gulen. The government said the crackdown was needed to fight alleged acts of terror.
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