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By Melissa ChanNovember 13, 2017 9:44 AM ESTAn 8-year-old race car driver died after she stanley cup slammed into a cement barrier during a drag race competition in Australia over the weekend, her family and officials said.Anita Board was taking her car for a test run on the track at the Perth Motorplex in Kwinana Beach, Western Australia, shortly after noon on Saturday when she failed to stop at the end of the drive and hit a barrier, police said in a statement. She was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries and later died, accordi stanley cup ng to the Australian National Drag Racing Association, which sanctions motorsports in the country.During a news conference Monday, the girlrsquo family remembered Anita for her bright, bubbly personality and infectious smile, according to The West Australian newspaper.Her passion for motor sport, drag racing and being here as a family with her sister at the track was the highlight of her life, said Anitarsquo father, Ian Board. We were blessed to have had her for eight years and shersquo going to be forever missed.The Australian National Drag Racing Association allows children between the ages of 8 and 16 to compete in junior drag racing. Anita was driving Saturday to qualify for her junior drag racing license, which more than 100 children in Australia a stanley cup lready have, The West Australian reported.After the deadly crash, the Australian government temporarily suspended junior drag racin Iwqk Here s the Pocket-Sized Nerf Blaster You Always Wanted
Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to the media after keynoting a Women s Empowerment Event at the United Nations on March 10, 2015 in New York Ci adidas og ty.Yana Paskovamdash;Getty ImagesBy Sam FrizellMarch 16, 2015 2:38 PM EDTHillary Clinton talked about how her husband improved relations with Ireland at a pre-St. Patrick Day event Monday, recalling how he granted Irish nationalist Gerry Adams a visa in 1994.In a brief speech at the Irish America Hall of Fame ceremony in Manhattan, the former Secretary of State said that President Clinton decision to allow Adams to speak at a conference in New York, which many American opposed, was an important first step toward peace in Ireland since it helped end Sinn Fein international isolation.Absent that first step, that first risk, we might not have had the momentum adidas campus to move forward and get to the Good Friday accords and all that has followed, Clinton said.She recalled her own involvement in the peace process in Ireland, where she visited half a dozen times in the late 1990s and encouraged women to join the political process of Northern Ireland. I was privileged to be in Belfast in November 1995, Clinton said, referring to a visit she paid to the embattled Irish city with her husband.Her af1 address was one of her final public appearances before she announces her expected bid for president in April. She is also speaking at a paid event Thursday in Atlantic City at |
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