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Reportage| PHOTO : OUEST-FRANCE Les riverains ont redoublé d'imagination pour récolter les goodies de la caravane publicitaire. Événement important du calendrier cycliste français, le Tour de l’Avenir prenait le départ en Normandie ce jeudi 20 août. Une première étape attendue notamment dans les deux villes augeronnes, où passaient les jeunes espoirs du vélo international. 21 Aug 2026 - Ouest France (Pays d'Auge) Mathilde Descrettes et notre correspondant local « Ça serait bien qu’ils pédalent vite!» Sur le bord de la route, un riverain lance la phrase avec un brin d’espoir. Il est 13 h 30 et, pour l’heure, les coureurs se font encore attendre. La pluie et les rafales de vent, elles, sont bien au rendezvous. Une météo peu engageante pour les spectateurs venus assister au passage de la première étape de cette 62e édition du Tour de l’Avenir. Une bonne centaine de spectateurs Ils sont une bonne centaine, éparpillés le long de l’avenue Jean-Jaurès. Certains scrutent l’horizon, d’a...

OUEST-FRANCE | PHOTO: Hier, au départ de la course  cycliste espoir Tour de l'avenir, à Ouistreham. 21 Aug 2026 - Ouest France (Pays d'Auge) Alexia Sabatier «3…2…1…Et c’est parti!» Le coup d’envoi est donné pour la 62e édition du Tour de l’Avenir , avec son départ fictif sur la promenade de la Paix à Ouistreham (Calvados). La plus importante course espoir de la saison en cyclisme s’est élancée hier jeudi, avec 150 coureurs dans le peloton. « On essaye d’aller vite et bien pour un public oscillant entre pluie et soleil » : une heure avant le départ, c’est sous une drache bien normande que le speaker a présenté les 25 équipes présentes sur l’épreuve. Un moment festif au sein du village de départ qui réunit curieux et passionnés : « Le cyclisme, pour nous, c’est une liberté, une expression… S’enthousiasment les frères Alexis et Maxandre Robert . Et en tant que supporter, c’est l’un des seuls sports que l’on peut voir gratuitement au bord des routes. Donc c’est vraiment sympathique...

21 Aug 2026 Coventry Telegraph GORDON Strachan has backed Doug King not to jeopardise Coventry City’s long-term future for their short-term shot at the Premier League. The Sky Blues return to top flight action for the first time in 25 years tonight, when they face champions Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium The game will be their first among English football’s elite since the 0-0 draw with Bradford City at Highfield Road in May 2001 . Strachan oversaw that match, albeit he was gone four months later surely never suspecting the trauma the club would go through over the next quarter century. As City stand on the brink of their long-awaited return the 69-year-old believes King will be mindful of just how bad things got - and making sure the club does not repeat the mistakes made at the other end of the M69. “Once again, it’s about looking after the club,” Strachan told Betway. “If you’re the owner of the club, you will have Northampton, Birmingham , travelling to play home games in the ba...

Frank Lampard heads to the Emirates tonight,  guaranteed the support of the Sky Blue Army FRANK Lampard takes charge of his first Premier League match in three years when he leads newly-promoted Coventry City against reigning champions Arsenal tonight. "Having been through the challenges for good and for bad in my managerial career,  I think it puts me in a better spot."    - Frank Lampard 21 Aug 2026 - Coventry Telegraph By BRIAN DICK The eyes of the world will be on the Emirates Stadium in the season curtain-raiser, a fixture that pits a Gunners team that bludgeoned its way to the title just a few months ago, against a Sky Blues side that was the cream of the Championship. While City will be playing their first top-flight fixture in a quartercentury, their manager will be ending his own, rather shorter, absence from English football’s top table. Lampard left nothing to prove in his magnificent playing career but it is fair to say his last Premier League match as ...

Taiwo Awoniyi’s Premier League know-how  will be a big asset to the Sky Blues "When we looked across our recruitment idea,  we wanted to bring in some Premier League experience."    - Frank Lampard 21 Aug 2026 - Coventry Telegraph By BRIAN DICK FRANK Lampard insists Coventry City did their due diligence on striker Taiwo Awoniyi ahead of his £9 million transfer from Nottingham Forest. The 29-year-old made the short trip across the Midlands earlier this week and brought an end to a four-season career with the Reds. In the last two campaigns he made just six Premier League starts , with Chris Wood ’s renaissance and his own fitness struggles not helping on that front. But Lampard says he hopes to capitalise on the Nigerian’s desire to make an impact: “We have done that absolutely, and I’m not concerned about it,” he said. “I think sometimes where we are, we’re trying to bring in players in the Premier League, there’s a reason why Taiwo leaves Nottingham Forest to com...

Frank Lampard leads Coventry back into Premier League  action tonight for the first time since 2001 LAMPARD: PREMIER LEAGUE WILL BE A BIG TEST – BUT BRING IT ON Lamps: We’re in it together 21 Aug 2026 - Coventry Telegraph FRANK Lampard accepts the reality that promoted Coventry City will face “tougher times” this season – and he is confident the players have the belief and quality to step up to the challenge. The Sky Blues return to the Premier League after a 25-year absence when they head to champions Arsenal tonight (8.00). Former Chelsea and Everton manager Lampard says his previous experience in the Premier League puts him in a good position to deal with some testing times that could come his side’s way this season after the dazzling highs of last term’s title success “We will go through tougher times this year for sure because of the competition we’re up against now so we’ll need resilience in moments calmness in moments,” said Lampard. “An important part of my role is to hav...

©Getty https://sport.sky.it/calcio/premier-league/2026/08/21/premier-league-frank-lampard-carriera-allenatore Dopo le esperienze complicate con Chelsea ed Everton, l'ex centrocampista ha riportato il Coventry City in Premier League dopo 25 anni: adesso vuole dimostrare di essere finalmente pronto per la massima serie 21 ago 2026 - 10:30 Roberto Gotta  - Sky Sport Insider © Era dal 2020, dall’arrivo in Premier League del Leeds United di Marcelo Bielsa , che nella massima serie inglese non saliva una squadra con un allenatore il cui nome fosse riconoscibile da tutti, senza bisogno di ulteriori qualifiche o dettagli. Accade ora con Frank Lampard , che apre la nuova stagione visitando con il Coventry City l’Emirates Stadium dei campioni in carica dell’Arsenal. Pronostici foschi, come è logico che sia per un confronto del genere, ma che Lampard, 48 anni compiuti il 20 giugno , neppure considera, rendendosi conto della loro inutilità. Del resto, la stagione del Coventry, la prima in...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/16/soweto-uprising-johannesburg-remembered-50-years-on 16 June 1976 is not just another chapter in the history books, nor is its aftermath and legacy, say those who took part and their families By Rachel Savage in Soweto Tue 16 Jun 2026 04.00 CEST The day of 16 June 1976 began peacefully in Soweto. Student leaders at high schools across the sprawling Johannesburg township, to which the apartheid regime had exiled hundreds of thousands of black South Africans, took charge of the morning assemblies. They led their fellow students into the streets and began to march toward Orlando stadium. The students were protesting against the government’s imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. Their teachers barely spoke the white minority language and the students did not want to learn the oppressor’s language. They were tired of the intentionally substandard Bantu education, tired of being second-class citizens. By the end of the day, dozens w...

I funerali di Hector Pieterson, ucciso a Soweto non ancora 13enne il 16 giugno 1976  e passato alla storia come prima vittima delle rivolta – Peter Magubane/Fabbri editore https://ilmanifesto.it/interconnessi-alla-rivolta-di-soweto Anniversari - Il 16 giugno di 50 anni fa la strage di giovanissimi studenti sudafricani che protestavano contro l’imposizione dell’afrikaans nelle scuole fu l’inizio della fine per il regime dell’apartheid.  E quella lotta ci parla ancora oggi Laura Burocco il manifesto - 16 giugno 2026 Leggi anche Sudafrica cancellato Edizione 16/06/2026 La mattina del 16 giugno 1976, a Soweto, nel Sudafrica sotto il regime dell’ apartheid , un gruppo di studenti tra i 13 e i 16 anni organizzò una marcia contro la politica linguistica del 1974 che imponeva l’afrikaans come lingua di insegnamento , nel quadro delle politiche avviate dal National Party dopo il 1948 e consolidate con il Bantu Education Act del 1953. Quello che passò alla storia come Soweto Uprising f...