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Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Spain

Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Spain

2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports, Six-time US Open champion and seven-time winner at Wimbledon, Serena Williams attend the Princess of Asturias awards ceremony 2025 at the Campoamor Theater on October 24, 2025 in Oviedo, Spain. Photo by Archie Andrews/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Spain

Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Spain

Six-time US Open champion and seven-time winner at Wimbledon, Serena Williams receives the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports from Crown Princess Leonor of Spain during the Princess of Asturias awards ceremony 2025 at the Campoamor Theater on October 24, 2025 in Oviedo, Spain. Photo by Archie Andrews/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Spain

Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Spain

2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports, Six-time US Open champion and seven-time winner at Wimbledon, Serena Williams attend the Princess of Asturias awards ceremony 2025 at the Campoamor Theater on October 24, 2025 in Oviedo, Spain. Photo by Archie Andrews/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Spain

Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Spain

Six-time US Open champion and seven-time winner at Wimbledon, Serena Williams receives the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports from Crown Princess Leonor of Spain during the Princess of Asturias awards ceremony 2025 at the Campoamor Theater on October 24, 2025 in Oviedo, Spain. Photo by Archie Andrews/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Spain

Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Spain

2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports, Six-time US Open champion and seven-time winner at Wimbledon, Serena Williams attend the Princess of Asturias awards ceremony 2025 at the Campoamor Theater on October 24, 2025 in Oviedo, Spain. Photo by Archie Andrews/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Spain

Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Spain

Six-time US Open champion and seven-time winner at Wimbledon, Serena Williams receives the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports from Crown Princess Leonor of Spain during the Princess of Asturias awards ceremony 2025 at the Campoamor Theater on October 24, 2025 in Oviedo, Spain. Photo by Archie Andrews/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Spain

Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Spain

2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports, Six-time US Open champion and seven-time winner at Wimbledon, Serena Williams attend the Princess of Asturias awards ceremony 2025 at the Campoamor Theater on October 24, 2025 in Oviedo, Spain. Photo by Archie Andrews/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Spain

Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Spain

2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports, Six-time US Open champion and seven-time winner at Wimbledon, Serena Williams attend the Princess of Asturias awards ceremony 2025 at the Campoamor Theater on October 24, 2025 in Oviedo, Spain. Photo by Archie Andrews/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Spain

Princess Of Asturias Awards Ceremony - Spain

2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports, Six-time US Open champion and seven-time winner at Wimbledon, Serena Williams attend the Princess of Asturias awards ceremony 2025 at the Campoamor Theater on October 24, 2025 in Oviedo, Spain. Photo by Archie Andrews/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Speed skating coach Johan de Wit

Speed skating coach Johan de Wit

Dutch speed skating coach Johan de Wit (R) poses for a photo next to seven-time Olympic medalist Miho Takagi during an award ceremony in Tokyo on April 20, 2023.

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Japanese speed skater Miho Takagi

Japanese speed skater Miho Takagi

Seven-time Olympic speed skating medalist Miho Takagi poses for a photo during a press conference in Tokyo on April 17, 2023. Takagi confirmed the same day her intention to compete in the 2026 Winter Olympics.

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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

(230216) -- BANGUI, Feb. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hao Yabo performs acupuncture therapy to a patient at a hospital in Bangui, Central African Republic, Feb. 14, 2023. Hao Yabo, a Chinese doctor born in the 1990s and a member of the 19th Chinese medical team dispatched to the Central African Republic, traveled across seven time zones in June of 2022 to Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic. The following months saw him and his teammates fully engaged in their medical aid mission to this country, providing services to local people and winning friends. As an acupuncturist, Hao has been performing a variety of treatments for local patients to cure as many ailments as possible. His superb medical skills have not only won himself compliments from patients, but also turned the patients fans of acupuncture. More often than not, even native doctors approached to him for medical advice and treatments. Living in a different time zone, Hao, who happens to be a new father, has very limited time to chat with h

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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

(230216) -- BANGUI, Feb. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hao Yabo performs acupuncture therapy to a patient at a hospital in Bangui, Central African Republic, Feb. 13, 2023. Hao Yabo, a Chinese doctor born in the 1990s and a member of the 19th Chinese medical team dispatched to the Central African Republic, traveled across seven time zones in June of 2022 to Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic. The following months saw him and his teammates fully engaged in their medical aid mission to this country, providing services to local people and winning friends. As an acupuncturist, Hao has been performing a variety of treatments for local patients to cure as many ailments as possible. His superb medical skills have not only won himself compliments from patients, but also turned the patients fans of acupuncture. More often than not, even native doctors approached to him for medical advice and treatments. Living in a different time zone, Hao, who happens to be a new father, has very limited time to chat with h

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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

(230216) -- BANGUI, Feb. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hao Yabo (R) performs acupuncture therapy with his assistant to a patient at a hospital in Bangui, Central African Republic, Feb. 13, 2023. Hao Yabo, a Chinese doctor born in the 1990s and a member of the 19th Chinese medical team dispatched to the Central African Republic, traveled across seven time zones in June of 2022 to Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic. The following months saw him and his teammates fully engaged in their medical aid mission to this country, providing services to local people and winning friends. As an acupuncturist, Hao has been performing a variety of treatments for local patients to cure as many ailments as possible. His superb medical skills have not only won himself compliments from patients, but also turned the patients fans of acupuncture. More often than not, even native doctors approached to him for medical advice and treatments. Living in a different time zone, Hao, who happens to be a new father, has very limi

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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

(230216) -- BANGUI, Feb. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hao Yabo plays billiards after work in Bangui, Central African Republic, Feb. 13, 2023. Hao Yabo, a Chinese doctor born in the 1990s and a member of the 19th Chinese medical team dispatched to the Central African Republic, traveled across seven time zones in June of 2022 to Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic. The following months saw him and his teammates fully engaged in their medical aid mission to this country, providing services to local people and winning friends. As an acupuncturist, Hao has been performing a variety of treatments for local patients to cure as many ailments as possible. His superb medical skills have not only won himself compliments from patients, but also turned the patients fans of acupuncture. More often than not, even native doctors approached to him for medical advice and treatments. Living in a different time zone, Hao, who happens to be a new father, has very limited time to chat with his family via mobile phone af

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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

(230216) -- BANGUI, Feb. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A patient receives acupuncture therapy at a hospital in Bangui, Central African Republic, Feb. 13, 2023. Hao Yabo, a Chinese doctor born in the 1990s and a member of the 19th Chinese medical team dispatched to the Central African Republic, traveled across seven time zones in June of 2022 to Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic. The following months saw him and his teammates fully engaged in their medical aid mission to this country, providing services to local people and winning friends. As an acupuncturist, Hao has been performing a variety of treatments for local patients to cure as many ailments as possible. His superb medical skills have not only won himself compliments from patients, but also turned the patients fans of acupuncture. More often than not, even native doctors approached to him for medical advice and treatments. Living in a different time zone, Hao, who happens to be a new father, has very limited time to chat with his family vi

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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

(230216) -- BANGUI, Feb. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hao Yabo performs acupuncture therapy to a patient at a hospital in Bangui, Central African Republic, Feb. 13, 2023. Hao Yabo, a Chinese doctor born in the 1990s and a member of the 19th Chinese medical team dispatched to the Central African Republic, traveled across seven time zones in June of 2022 to Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic. The following months saw him and his teammates fully engaged in their medical aid mission to this country, providing services to local people and winning friends. As an acupuncturist, Hao has been performing a variety of treatments for local patients to cure as many ailments as possible. His superb medical skills have not only won himself compliments from patients, but also turned the patients fans of acupuncture. More often than not, even native doctors approached to him for medical advice and treatments. Living in a different time zone, Hao, who happens to be a new father, has very limited time to chat with h

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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

(230216) -- BANGUI, Feb. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hao Yabo adjusts his outfit before work in Bangui, Central African Republic, Feb. 14, 2023. Hao Yabo, a Chinese doctor born in the 1990s and a member of the 19th Chinese medical team dispatched to the Central African Republic, traveled across seven time zones in June of 2022 to Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic. The following months saw him and his teammates fully engaged in their medical aid mission to this country, providing services to local people and winning friends. As an acupuncturist, Hao has been performing a variety of treatments for local patients to cure as many ailments as possible. His superb medical skills have not only won himself compliments from patients, but also turned the patients fans of acupuncture. More often than not, even native doctors approached to him for medical advice and treatments. Living in a different time zone, Hao, who happens to be a new father, has very limited time to chat with his family via mobile phon

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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

(230216) -- BANGUI, Feb. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Patients wait outside Hao Yabo's consulting room at a hospital in Bangui, Central African Republic, Feb. 13, 2023. Hao Yabo, a Chinese doctor born in the 1990s and a member of the 19th Chinese medical team dispatched to the Central African Republic, traveled across seven time zones in June of 2022 to Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic. The following months saw him and his teammates fully engaged in their medical aid mission to this country, providing services to local people and winning friends. As an acupuncturist, Hao has been performing a variety of treatments for local patients to cure as many ailments as possible. His superb medical skills have not only won himself compliments from patients, but also turned the patients fans of acupuncture. More often than not, even native doctors approached to him for medical advice and treatments. Living in a different time zone, Hao, who happens to be a new father, has very limited time to chat with his

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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

(230216) -- BANGUI, Feb. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hao Yabo checks a patient's condition at a hospital in Bangui, Central African Republic, Feb. 14, 2023. Hao Yabo, a Chinese doctor born in the 1990s and a member of the 19th Chinese medical team dispatched to the Central African Republic, traveled across seven time zones in June of 2022 to Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic. The following months saw him and his teammates fully engaged in their medical aid mission to this country, providing services to local people and winning friends. As an acupuncturist, Hao has been performing a variety of treatments for local patients to cure as many ailments as possible. His superb medical skills have not only won himself compliments from patients, but also turned the patients fans of acupuncture. More often than not, even native doctors approached to him for medical advice and treatments. Living in a different time zone, Hao, who happens to be a new father, has very limited time to chat with his family via

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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

(230216) -- BANGUI, Feb. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hao Yabo (R) has lunch with his colleague in Bangui, Central African Republic, Feb. 14, 2023. Hao Yabo, a Chinese doctor born in the 1990s and a member of the 19th Chinese medical team dispatched to the Central African Republic, traveled across seven time zones in June of 2022 to Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic. The following months saw him and his teammates fully engaged in their medical aid mission to this country, providing services to local people and winning friends. As an acupuncturist, Hao has been performing a variety of treatments for local patients to cure as many ailments as possible. His superb medical skills have not only won himself compliments from patients, but also turned the patients fans of acupuncture. More often than not, even native doctors approached to him for medical advice and treatments. Living in a different time zone, Hao, who happens to be a new father, has very limited time to chat with his family via mobile ph

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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

(230216) -- BANGUI, Feb. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hao Yabo (R) performs acupuncture therapy with his assistant to a patient at a hospital in Bangui, Central African Republic, Feb. 13, 2023. Hao Yabo, a Chinese doctor born in the 1990s and a member of the 19th Chinese medical team dispatched to the Central African Republic, traveled across seven time zones in June of 2022 to Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic. The following months saw him and his teammates fully engaged in their medical aid mission to this country, providing services to local people and winning friends. As an acupuncturist, Hao has been performing a variety of treatments for local patients to cure as many ailments as possible. His superb medical skills have not only won himself compliments from patients, but also turned the patients fans of acupuncture. More often than not, even native doctors approached to him for medical advice and treatments. Living in a different time zone, Hao, who happens to be a new father, has very limi

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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

(230216) -- BANGUI, Feb. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hao Yabo (R) performs acupuncture therapy with his assistant to a patient at a hospital in Bangui, Central African Republic, Feb. 13, 2023. Hao Yabo, a Chinese doctor born in the 1990s and a member of the 19th Chinese medical team dispatched to the Central African Republic, traveled across seven time zones in June of 2022 to Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic. The following months saw him and his teammates fully engaged in their medical aid mission to this country, providing services to local people and winning friends. As an acupuncturist, Hao has been performing a variety of treatments for local patients to cure as many ailments as possible. His superb medical skills have not only won himself compliments from patients, but also turned the patients fans of acupuncture. More often than not, even native doctors approached to him for medical advice and treatments. Living in a different time zone, Hao, who happens to be a new father, has very limi

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Golfer Yoneyama to retire at end of season

Golfer Yoneyama to retire at end of season

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in May 2005 shows Japanese golfer Midori Yoneyama, a seven-time winner on the Japan LPGA Tour. Yoneyama, 35, said Nov. 16, 2011, she will retire at the end of the season.

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Racehorse Symboli Rudolf dies

Racehorse Symboli Rudolf dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Symboli Rudolf (10) and jockey Yukio Okabe winning the Japanese Derby in Tokyo in 1984. The seven-time Grade One winner in Japan died on Oct. 4, 2011, in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, at the age of 30. The thoroughbred was inducted into the Japan Racing Association Hall of Fame in 1987.

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Japan welcomed to Olympic athletes village

Japan welcomed to Olympic athletes village

VANCOUVER, Canada - Native Canadians dressed in their traditional attire perform at the ceremony to formally welcome the Japanese delegation to the athletes' village for the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver on Feb. 10, 2010. Japanese delegation head and seven-time Olympian Seiko Hashimoto and 30 athletes attended the ceremony, which was dampened by steady rain at the village site.

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Clemens announces return to N.Y. Yankees

Clemens announces return to N.Y. Yankees

NEW YORK, United States - Seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens holds a press conference at Yankee Stadium in New York on May 6 after the Yankees signed him to a minor league contract.

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Nakamura training in L.A. as he awaits bids

Nakamura training in L.A. as he awaits bids

LOS ANGELES, United States - Seven-time Japanese All-Star infielder Norihiro Nakamura (C), who has completed procedures to enter the major leagues via the posting system, arrived with his family in Los Angeles on Jan. 25.

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Solo trans-Pacific sailor Horie's yacht returns to Japan

Solo trans-Pacific sailor Horie's yacht returns to Japan

KOBE, Japan - Kenichi Horie, a seven-time trans-Pacific sailor from Japan, welcomes his yacht, which he had captained to San Francisco, at the port of Kobe on Aug. 14. Horie, 63, completed his two-month trans-Pacific voyage on his MALT's Mermaid 3 from Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan to San Francisco on July 17. He then returned to Japan and waited while the boat was transported back in a container ship.

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Deal still pending for Suzuki, Seattle Mariners

Deal still pending for Suzuki, Seattle Mariners

KOBE, Japan - Seattle Mariners President Chuck Armstrong (C) gives a news conference at a Kobe hotel Nov. 17 after he failed to reach an agreement on a contract for Ichiro Suzuki, the seven-time Pacific League batting champion.

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Seattle Mariners close to deal on Ichiro

Seattle Mariners close to deal on Ichiro

KOBE, Japan - Tony Atanacio (L), agent for seven-time Pacific League batting champion Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle Mariners President Chuck Armstrong (C) and Chairman Howard Lincoln shake hands at the end of their first round of negotiations at a Kobe hotel Nov. 16. Atanacio said he is satisfied with the talks and indicated they are entering the final phase of negotiations.

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Ichiro as usual

Ichiro as usual

KOBE, Japan - Seven-time Pacific League batting champion Ichiro Suzuki answers reporters after his routine batting practice at the Orix BlueWave indoor ground in Kobe on Nov. 16 as the Seattle Mariners are reported close to landing a deal on him.

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Mariners officials arrive in Japan to meet Ichiro

Mariners officials arrive in Japan to meet Ichiro

OSAKA, Japan - Howard Lincoln, top management official of the Seattle Mariners, waives at photographers on arriving at Kansai International Airport on Nov. 15 to begin contract negotiations with seven-time Pacific League batting champion Ichiro Suzuki. Lincoln leads representatives of the American League club, which won exclusive negotiating rights to Suzuki with a bid of over $13 million earlier this month.

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Suzuki answers to questions on negotiations with Mariners

Suzuki answers to questions on negotiations with Mariners

KOBE, Japan - Seven-time Pacific League batting champion Ichiro Suzuki (C) answers reporters' questions Nov. 10, after the Seattle Mariners submitted the highest bid to get exclusive negotiating rights. ''This is one of the clubs that I had hoped to join, so I am happy,'' Suzuki said at the Orix BlueWave indoor practice facility in Kobe, after hearing that the Mariners had offered over $13 million for the right to talk to the all-star outfielder.

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Mariners acquire exclusive negotiating rights for Ichiro

Mariners acquire exclusive negotiating rights for Ichiro

OSAKA, Japan - Japanese outfielder Ichiro Suzuki is swarmed by reporters at the Orix BlueWave indoor training ground in Kobe on Nov. 9 after the Pacific League club announced it has received a $13,125,000 bid from a major league team for the right to negotiate with the seven-time league batting champion. In Amelia, Florida, Major League Baseball said in a statement later in the day that the Seattle Mariners have acquired exclusive negotiating rights for Ichiro.

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Orix BlueWave batting champ Ichiro Suzuki meets press

Orix BlueWave batting champ Ichiro Suzuki meets press

KOBE, Japan - Ichiro Suzuki, the seven-time Pacific League batting champion of the Orix BlueWave, is surrounded by reporters Nov. 9 after team president Yutaka Okazoe announced the club had received a bid of $13,125,000 from a major league team for the right to negotiate with the 27-year-old outfielder.

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Orix says it has received $13 mil. bid for Suzuki

Orix says it has received $13 mil. bid for Suzuki

KOBE, Japan - Yutaka Okazoe, president of the Orix BlueWave of Japan's Pacific League, announces at a news conference in Kobe on Nov. 9 that the club has received a bid of $13,125,000 from a major league team for the right to negotiate with seven-time league batting champion Ichiro Suzuki. Okazoe did not disclose which team in North America made the bid, but the team will now have 30 days to sign the 27-year-old outfielder.

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Seven-time PL batting champion Suzuki wants shot at majors

Seven-time PL batting champion Suzuki wants shot at majors

KOBE, Japan - Seven-time Pacific League batting champion Ichiro Suzuki of the Orix BlueWave gestures to reporters in Kobe on Oct. 12 as he explains his decision to seek a chance to play in the North American major leagues next season.

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Matsuzaka retirement ceremony

Matsuzaka retirement ceremony

Former Boston Red Sox right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka (L) receives a bouquet of flowers from retired baseball star Ichiro Suzuki at his retirement ceremony held at the Seibu Lions' fan appreciation day at MetLife Dome in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo on Dec. 4, 2021. The 41-year-old seven-time Japanese Golden Glove winner ended his 23-year baseball career when he pitched at the dome for the Seibu Lions, the Pacific League club where he started his career at age 18, on Oct. 19.

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Matsuzaka retirement ceremony

Matsuzaka retirement ceremony

Former Boston Red Sox right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka waves to fans during his retirement ceremony held at the Seibu Lions' fan appreciation day at MetLife Dome in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo on Dec. 4, 2021. The 41-year-old seven-time Japanese Golden Glove winner ended his 23-year baseball career when he pitched at the dome for the Seibu Lions, the Pacific League club where he started his career at age 18, on Oct. 19.

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Matsuzaka retirement ceremony

Matsuzaka retirement ceremony

Former Boston Red Sox right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka (L) shakes hands with retired baseball star Ichiro Suzuki at his retirement ceremony held at the Seibu Lions' fan appreciation day at MetLife Dome in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo on Dec. 4, 2021. The 41-year-old seven-time Japanese Golden Glove winner ended his 23-year baseball career when he pitched at the dome for the Seibu Lions, the Pacific League club where he started his career at age 18, on Oct. 19.

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Matsuzaka retirement ceremony

Matsuzaka retirement ceremony

Former Boston Red Sox right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka bids farewell at his retirement ceremony held at the Seibu Lions' fan appreciation day at MetLife Dome in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo on Dec. 4, 2021. The 41-year-old seven-time Japanese Golden Glove winner ended his 23-year baseball career when he pitched at the dome for the Seibu Lions, the Pacific League club where he started his career at age 18, on Oct. 19.

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Matsuzaka retirement ceremony

Matsuzaka retirement ceremony

Former Boston Red Sox right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka is pictured during his retirement ceremony held at the Seibu Lions' fan appreciation day at MetLife Dome in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo on Dec. 4, 2021. The 41-year-old seven-time Japanese Golden Glove winner ended his 23-year baseball career when he pitched at the dome for the Seibu Lions, the Pacific League club where he started his career at age 18, on Oct. 19.

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Matsuzaka retirement ceremony

Matsuzaka retirement ceremony

Former Boston Red Sox right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka (L) shakes hands with retired baseball star Ichiro Suzuki at his retirement ceremony held at the Seibu Lions' fan appreciation day at MetLife Dome in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo on Dec. 4, 2021. The 41-year-old seven-time Japanese Golden Glove winner ended his 23-year baseball career when he pitched at the dome for the Seibu Lions, the Pacific League club where he started his career at age 18, on Oct. 19.

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Matsuzaka retirement ceremony

Matsuzaka retirement ceremony

Former Boston Red Sox right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka (L) receives a bouquet of flowers from retired baseball star Ichiro Suzuki at his retirement ceremony held at the Seibu Lions' fan appreciation day at MetLife Dome in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo on Dec. 4, 2021. The 41-year-old seven-time Japanese Golden Glove winner ended his 23-year baseball career when he pitched at the dome for the Seibu Lions, the Pacific League club where he started his career at age 18, on Oct. 19.

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Matsuzaka retirement ceremony

Matsuzaka retirement ceremony

Former Boston Red Sox right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka bids farewell at his retirement ceremony held at the Seibu Lions' fan appreciation day at MetLife Dome in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo on Dec. 4, 2021. The 41-year-old seven-time Japanese Golden Glove winner ended his 23-year baseball career when he pitched at the dome for the Seibu Lions, the Pacific League club where he started his career at age 18, on Oct. 19.

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Matsuzaka retirement ceremony

Matsuzaka retirement ceremony

Former Boston Red Sox right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka (L) shakes hands with retired baseball star Ichiro Suzuki at his retirement ceremony held at the Seibu Lions' fan appreciation day at MetLife Dome in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo on Dec. 4, 2021. The 41-year-old seven-time Japanese Golden Glove winner ended his 23-year baseball career when he pitched at the dome for the Seibu Lions, the Pacific League club where he started his career at age 18, on Oct. 19.

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Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

Cate Blanchett Characters: Queen Elizabeth I Film: Elizabeth: The Golden Age (USA/UK/FR/DE 2007) Director: Shekhar Kapur 09 September 2007 Reprising the role she originated in the seven-time Academy Award

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Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

Cate Blanchett Characters: Queen Elizabeth I Film: Elizabeth: The Golden Age (USA/UK/FR/DE 2007) Director: Shekhar Kapur 09 September 2007 CATE BLANCHETT, reprising the role she originated in the seven-time Academy Award

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Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

Cate Blanchett Characters: Queen Elizabeth I Film: Elizabeth: The Golden Age (USA/UK/FR/DE 2007) Director: Shekhar Kapur 09 September 2007 Reprising the role she originated in the seven-time Academy Award

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