TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: Sep 26  2017; Jersey City  NJ  USA; U.S. Team assistant captain Tiger Woods during The Presidents Cup golf tournament at Liberty National Golf Course. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports
JERSEY CITY  New Jersey (Reuters)  - Tiger Woods  said  he  was âoptimisticâ about  his  golfing future while at the same time publicly acknowledging what has been obvious for some time  that  he  might never return to competitive golf.
The American former world number one won the last of  his  14 major titles in 2008 and the 41-year-old has only played six competitive rounds in the past two years while trying to recover from multiple back surgeries.
âYeah  definitely. I donât know what my future holds for me â  he  said on Wednesday on the eve of the Presidents Cup when asked whether there was a scenario that would not allow  him  to compete again.
âI donât know what 100 percent (healthy) means after eight surgeries  but Iâll try and get as close as I can to that number â  Woods  added.
 Woods  was peppered with questions during a news conference with his three assistant Presidents Cup captains and the four International assistants  who often looked bored at the focus stayed on the second most prolific major champion of all time.
Sep 26  2017; Jersey City  NJ  USA;  U.S. Team assistant captain Tiger Woods  during The Presidents Cup golf tournament at Liberty National Golf Course. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports
 Woods  seemed destined to become the most prolific major winner of all time when he won the 2008 U.S. Open  moving within four titles of the record of 18 held by Jack Nicklaus.

SOLUTION: Tiger Woods

PROBLEM: MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was barred on Monday from running in next year’s presidential election after officials ruled he was ineligible to take part due to a suspended prison sentence he says was trumped up.
The decision by the central election commission was widely expected as election officials had repeatedly declared  Navalny  would be ineligible to run. Twelve members of the 13-member commission voted to bar  Navalny . One member abstained  citing a possible conflict of interest.
 Navalny   41  who polls show would struggle to beat incumbent Vladimir Putin in the March election  said he would appeal and called on his supporters to boycott the election and campaign against it being held.
“We knew this could happen  and so we have a straight-forward  clear plan ”  Navalny  said in a pre-recorded video released immediately after the decision.
 Navalny  said  he  would use  his  campaign headquarters across Russia to support the boycott and monitor turnout on voting day  March 18.
Polls show Putin  65  who has dominated Russia’s political landscape for the last 17 years  is on course to be comfortably re-elected  making  him  eligible to serve another six years until 2024  when  he  turns 72.
 Navalny  says Putin’s support is exaggerated and artificially maintained by a biased state media and an unfair system. He says he could defeat him in a fair election  an assertion Putin’s supporters have said is laughable.
‘DO  THE RIGHT THING’
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny  speaks to the media after submitting  his  documents to be registered as a presidential candidate at the Central Election Commission in Moscow  Russia December 24  2017. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva
Before the commission voted   Navalny   dressed in a dark suit  had demanded  he  be allowed to take part in the election delivering a speech that angered election officials.
In one heated exchange   he  said Russian voters’ faith in the system hung in the balance.
“If you do not allow me to run  you are taking a decision against millions of people who are demanding that  Navalny  take part ”  he  said  referring to  himself  in the first person.
“You are not robots  you are living  breathing human beings you are an independent body ... for once in your lives  do the right thing ”  he  said.
 His  supporters clapped  him   but officials were unmoved.
Ebzeev said there could not be “the slightest doubt” that  Navalny  was ineligible to run  a reference to Russia’s constitution that bars him running because of his suspended sentence relating to an embezzlement case.
 Navalny  has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing  and says the case is politically motivated.

SOLUTION: Alexei Navalny

PROBLEM: The video shows White House spokeswoman Linda Douglass sitting in front of a computer monitor displaying the Drudge Report Web site.
 Douglass points to a link featured by Drudge and discounts it  assuring viewers that patients who are satisfied with their private health coverage would be able to keep it.
 Looking into the camera  Douglass says: "The people who always try to scare people whenever you try to bring them health insurance reform are at it again. And they're taking sentences and phrases out of context and cobbling them together to leave a very false impression."
 Introducing herself in the three-minute video  Douglass says part of her job is to "keep track of all the disinformation that's out there about health-insurance reform." Because the president has talked so much about health care  Douglass says  he is at risk of having his words distorted by people with "a computer and a lot of free time" who might "take a phrase here and there  they simply cherry pick and put it together and make it sound like he's saying something he really didn't say."

SOLUTION:
Linda Douglass