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Gemze de Lappe, 95, Dies; Keeper of the Agnes de Mille Flame

“In the rope dance, there was a lift where I turned upside down and threw myself against Jimmy’s hip, and he took my hand and ran me around in a circle, with my head almost scraping the ground,” Miss de Lappe said in an interview in 2015 for New York City Center’s blog, adding that “it was really hard to teach it” to dancers in subsequent productions.

Many years later, in 1970, de Mille created…

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Who was clean in that final?

When it was already thought to be the worst doping scandal of the 2012 London Olympics, we receive the news of a sixth allegation of doping use by the runners in the 1500 metres final. This time, it regards the silver medallist - Gamze Bulut of Turkey.

We bring you up to date with the situation of each athlete running that final:

Until this moment, Alptekin (the winner), Kareiva and Kostetskaya have been Disqualified for doping use.

Russia's Tomashova had already been banned. Aregawi and Bulut are awaiting for a final verdict.

To expose what the classification table would look like in case all the drug cheats were eliminated, the American Olympian crossed out the suspicious athletes, including Abeba Aregawi, who was provisionally suspended just one week ago.

(Photo credits to Victor Sailer/Photo Run)