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Hackers Leak Simone Biles, Other U.S. Female Athletes Medical Records

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Confidential medical data of gold medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles, seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams and other female U.S. Olympians was hacked from a World Anti-Doping Agency database and posted online today. WADA says the hackers were a “Russian cyber espionage group” called Fancy Bears. They revealed records of “Therapeutic Use Exemptions,” which allow athletes to use otherwise-banned substances because…

Olympic Gold Medalist, Simone Biles, to Release Autobiography

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) – Four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles is ready to tell the full story behind her rise from prodigy to champion. Biles, who won five medals overall at the 2016 Olympics, will release her autobiography “Courage to Soar” on Nov. 15. The book will reveal “how challenges in her childhood have shaped her into the young…