Earlier today, Cycling Australia named the 25 athletes who together comprise the Australian Olympic Cycling Team for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. One of those names belonged to Annette Edmonson, the cyclist who took home bronze in the six-discipline Omnium event at London 2012. In the years since, Edmonson has gone on to win multiple World Championships, in addition to her role as part of a world record breaking team pursuit team last year. Not bad for a 24-year-old who gave up on her sport two years before winning her first Olympic medal.

Here, ahead of the ever-shortening road to Rio and her second Olympic Games, the Omnium world champion Annette Edmonson speaks with GRAZIA about the importance of keeping it in the family – again, no mean featWashington (AFP) - US lawmakers on Friday renewed their call for sanctions against China's top official in the Xinjiang region on the anniversary of riots that left nearly 200 dead.

China cracked down hard after the July 5, 2009 rampage in Urumqi, the region's capital.

Around one million Uighurs or members of other mostly Muslim, Turkic-speaking communities have been detained in a vast network of camps in the name of counterterrorism.

More than 40 US lawmakers across the political spectrum on April 3 called on the Trump administration to slap sanctions on Chen Quanguo, the Communist Party secretary in Xinjiang.

But the chairs of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, a US government body that monitors human rights in the country, said the administration has not yet responded to the letter.

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