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Sports news, scores, analysis and opinion from the Guardian US

Some sports, or individual competitions within a sport, retain a policy of allowing only amateur sport. The Olympic Games started with a principle of amateur competition with those who practised a sport professionally considered to have an unfair advantage over those who practised it merely as a hobby. From 1971, Olympic athletes were allowed to receive compensation and sponsorship, and from 1986, the IOC decided to make all professional athletes eligible for the Olympics, with the exceptions of boxing, and wrestling. It is common for popular sports to attract large broadcast audiences, leading to rival broadcasters bidding large amounts of money for the rights to show certain fixtures. Participants may cheat in order to unfairly increase their chance of winning, or in order to achieve other advantages such as financial gains. The widespread existence of gambling on the results of sports fixtures creates a motivation for match fixing, where a participant or participants deliberately ...

Cyber Security Agency of Singapore

The President has made strengthening the Nation’s cybersecurity a priority from the outset of this Administration. CyWatch is the FBI’s 24/7 operations center and watch floor, providing around-the-clock support to track incidents and communicate with field offices across the country. The CRR is a no-cost, voluntary, non-technical assessment to evaluate an organization’s operational resilience and cyber security practices. Department of Homeland Security The Director of CISA should establish an approach, including time frames, for measuring outcomes of the organizational transformation, including customer satisfaction with organizational changes. Department of Homeland Security The Director of CISA should collect input to ensure that organizational changes are aligned with the needs of stakeholders, taking into account coordination challenges identified in this report. On July 12, 2021, the Senate confirmed Jen Easterly by a Voice Vote, directly after the Senate returned from its Ju...