The chairman of UK Athletics said last week the Olympics should be called off to spare athletes the stress of trying to train in the grip of a pandemic which has killed around 12,000 people since the virus surfaced in China.

India only has about 30,000 elephants left in its forests and reserves, and the huge animal enjoys the highest Schedule 1 species status under the Wildlife Protection Act (WPA), 1972 besides declared endangered by global body, IUCN.

He's now sixth, since William's three children all come ahead of him in the line of succession. Prince Harry was born third in line to the British throne, behind his father, Prince Charles, and older brother, Prince William. Harry now lives in California with his American-born wife, Meghan Markle, and their two children, including new baby Lilibet Diana.

The Sport and Rights Alliance (SRA) and the World Players Association (WPA) said a "deep review and broader consultation" with athletes was required regarding the decision over whether the Games could run as planned.



Soccer's global players' union FIFPro has also urged caution. "We need guidance and protocols on how to return in a healthy and safe manner. Football is a contact sport and we feel very high protection standards are required," said FIFPro secretary general Jonas Baer-Hoffmann.

Dec 14 (Reuters) - The world's leading players' associations unveiled a universal declaration of player rights on Thursday designed to give athletes a global voice and protect them from the fallout from corruption and a broken anti-doping system.

Senior wildlife officers refused to confirm that the May 1 Nagaon incident points to 'meat consumption,' but other experts expressed fears that the 'newly acquired taste' could lead to a spurt in elephant poaching.

Rituraj Phukan of the Nagaon-based Green Guards Organisation told Mail Today, 'While historically, jumbo flesh isn't eaten by tribes of Karbi Hills, we were surprised by the May 1 incident and similar ones in the past 10 years.

Royal-watchers, of course, will be especially attuned to details about what it was like growing up with glamorous Princess Diana as a mother, and Harry's front-row seat to his father's affair with his now-wife, Camilla Parker-Bowles. And Diana's tragic death in a Paris car accident in 1997, when Harry was just 12, will surely be discussed.

"Given the highly unresolved situation in Norway and in large parts of the world, it is neither justifiable or desirable to send Norwegian athletes to the Olympics or Paralympics in Tokyo until the world community has put this pandemic behind them," sports president Berit Kjшll said.

 In March, Harry and Meghan, aka the duke and duchess of Sussex, spoke to Oprah Winfrey for an , and later, the duke appeared on Dax Shepard and Monica Padman's . The royal family might prefer Prince Harry to keep his experiences to himself, but now that he's in America, thousands of miles away from palace courtiers, they can't really tell him what to do. He also worked with Winfrey on a mental-health series, The Me You Can't See, which is available on Apple TV Plus.

Suggesting a year's delay, he said the IOC was experienced in dealing with obstacles, citing the cancellations in 1916, 1940 and 1944 because of World Wars and the political boycotts of the Games in Moscow in 1980 and Los Angeles in 1984.

A separate new study from Aarhus University, in Denmark, looking at how much exposure players would have to a single infected player on the field, showed that, on average, a player is positioned within an 'exposure zone' for one minute and 28 seconds during a match.

In their paper: "The First, Comprehensive Immunological Model of COVID-19", Paolo Matricardi, Roberto Dal Negro and Roberto Nisini raise questions over the safety of playing while the virus remains at large.

The book will be published globally in late 2022, and the prince will donate proceeds to charity. Now he's writing an "intimate and heartfelt" memoir that's "accurate and wholly truthful," publisher Random House said Monday. Prince Harry continues to shake up the British royal family by tackling things that were simply Not Done by past royals.

He was detained entering Thailand for a vacation and held "with a substantial number of other detainees... in very trying conditions", Brendan Schwab, executive director of the World Players' Association (WPA), told AFP



Hakeem Alaraibi, 25, who played for the gulf state's national youth team, fled his homeland and was granted asylum in Australia where he plays semi-professionally for the second-tier team Pascoe Vale FC in

struggling to control the spread of the flu-like virus. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Tokyo 2020 organisers still insist the July 24-Aug.
9 showpiece will go ahead as planned despite Europe and the U.S.

Brendan Schwab, executive director of the WPA, likened the institutional and state-mandated doping uncovered in Russia by the World Anti-Doping Agency and International Olympic Committee investigations to something close to "subjecting athletes to scientific experimentation in pursuit of sporting success".