The NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks boycotted their play-off game with Orlando Magic to trigger a series of protests across US sport in response to the shooting of African-American Blake in Wisconsin
withdrew from the competition after reaching the semi-finals. The two-time Grand Slam champion was born in Japan to a Haitian father and Japanese mother, but has lived in the US since the age of three and said she was “exhausted” of seeing repeated calls for racial equality go unanswered.
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