I was working in a coffee shop in Boston to like help pay rent while I was training for the trials

And so people kept joking. They're like, oh, yeah

She just took a two-hour coffee break and went and ran the Olympic trials bare at that

On the podium is back with more Olympians and

Paralympians sharing their journeys to the top on the podium from the BBC World Service

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West African military chiefs have met to discuss possible armed intervention in Niger following last month's coup

The capital of Canada's northwest territories is being evacuated in the face of an approaching wildfire

Pakistani authorities have banned public gatherings in the city of Ajaranwala

After at least four churches were burned by Muslim crowds

Also in this podcast the first sports teams to leave North Korea since the COVID pandemic and an individual mushroom is

Beautiful and just a bunch of these growing together or if lots of them it would be quite magical

wider mushrooms go green in the dark

We are still giving diplomacy a chance, but if that fails our forces are ready to go into Niger

That's the head of the regional security block echo us making it quite clear that the new military leaders in Niger

Will not get away with last month's coup the commissioner for peace and security Abdel Fatal Musa warned the junta would be held to account for their actions

The ball is in the court of the junta the CNSP

in desire

If they pull back from the brink the military option will not be necessary

But we want to warn them that all options are on the table and no option is off the table

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