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Vainqueur surprise face à l’extrême droite dimanche, l’icône du camp progressiste va devoir batailler pour séduire une classe moyenne qui aspire à la prospérité individuelle et contre un Parlement acquis à ses adversaires. 27 Oct 2026 - Libération Par François-Xavier Gomez Ce mardi, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva fête ses 81 ans, mais ses compatriotes lui ont offert son cadeau d’anniversaire avec deux jours d’avance : dimanche, il a remporté sa quatrième victoire à une élection présidentielle, après celles de 2002, 2006 et 2022. Un exploit politique sidérant, sachant que quasiment tous les sondages et les observateurs, même ceux de son camp, le donnaient perdant face à Flávio Bolsonaro, incarnation d’une extrême droite couvée par Donald Trump qui triomphe un peu partout sur la planète. Depuis sa première candidature en 1989, lors d’un scrutin qui marquait le retour à la démocratie après vingt et un ans de dictature militaire, Lula a été de tous les combats. L’ancien syndicaliste de la métal...

ALBERT GEA/REUTERS  Real Madrid players explode with joy after Kylian Mbappé’s winning goal in the clásico,  which cut Barcelona’s lead at the top of La Liga to three points The win at Camp Nou stopped Barcelona building a significant lead at the top and reignited the title race Mourinho racked up his sixth consecutive meeting with Barça without defeat 27 Oct 2026 - The Guardian Sid Lowe José Mourinho had already done the por qué?, the printout and the press conference no-show in under 100 days. Now he’s done a knee slide too, and in the perfect place: back where it all began and where it can all begin again. When Kylian Mbappé scored the first in the Clásico on Sunday, Real Madrid’s manager hardly moved, sitting in the shadow of the bench – but when the striker got the second to win it with time running out, Mourinho leapt into the light, throwing himself to the grass, the knees of a 63-year-old’s trousers muddy as a schoolboy’s, stuck his tongue out and pumped his fists. H...

GUARDIAN DESIGN/ GETTY IMAGES  Racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, Avram  and Joel Glazer and Michael Carrick ‘Like all tragedies, it begins with a small moment’ Jonathan Wilson reflects on how the Rock of Gibraltar affair led to United’s demise Dramatic fallout between Alex Ferguson and a former shareholder ushered in this era of failure at Old Trafford For 20 years, United have been addled by debt and have made consistently terrible decisions 27 Oct 2026 - The Guardian Jonathan Wilson And so here we are again, at that point as the nights draw in and Manchester United prepare to sack a manager. Autumn: season of mists, mellow fruitfulness and a crisis at Old Trafford. The 3-0 home defeat against Bournemouth on Sunday, coming on the back of the 4-1 reverse against Como last week, made clear what many had feared from the moment Michael Carrick was given the job on a permanent basis: that he isn’t up to it. But then, who could be? When you’ve burned through a long list of managers in 1...

MATTHEW CHILDS/ACTION IMAGES/REUTERS  England and Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane was awarded  the men’s Ballon d’Or trophy at a ceremony in London last night 27 Oct 2026 - The Guardian Barney Ronay - @London Palladium Harry Kane is the Ballon d’Or winner for 2026, the first English man to win football’s most prestigious individual trophy in 25 years. Two hours into a lavishly excitable ceremony at the Palladium Theatre in London, Kane’s name emerged from the final envelope to wild cheers inside the auditorium. The women’s Ballon d’Or, awarded moments earlier, was won by Alexia Putellas of London City Lionesses, a third Ballon, five years on from her first in the colours of Barcelona. In the men’s voting Kane finished ahead of co-favourites Lamine Yamal of Barcelona and Kylian Mbappé of Real Madrid , an outcome that will perhaps cause the familiar consternation among the hierarchy of those clubs, not to mention the vast online fan army attached to the superstar players in Ka...

Jusqu'alors habitué aux places d'honneur et au maillot de meilleur grimpeur,  le Belge Lucien Van Impe saisit sa chance pour remporter le Tour de France 1976. Abituato sin lì ai piazzamenti e alla maglia di miglior scalatore,  il belga Lucien Van Impe coglie l'attimo fuggente per conquistare il Tour de France 1976. Bernard Chambaz Miroir du Cyclisme - L'histoire d'un magazine mythique Ou comment trouver son bonheur dans l'une des années a priori les moins fastes de l'histoire du cyclisme. À moins de considérer avec faveur, pourquoi pas, le mince regain de Merckx, son septième Milan-San Remo quand même et la Semaine Catalane et le Circuit de la vallée de la Lys, à moins de voir du panache dans les victoires belges, Van Impe sur le Tour, Maertens au championnat du monde, Peeters au Het Volk, Pollentier au Tour de Belgique, Planckaert (Willy) au Ronde , etc. Cette course précisément jette un certain discrédit sur l'actualité : à propos de ce tour des Fland...

https://www.nba.com/news/nba-celebrates-first-game-anniversary-on-nov-1-in-new-york?utm_source=chatgpt.com The NBA celebrates the anniversary of the league's first game between New York and Toronto on Nov. 1, 1946. Brian Martin, for NBA.com November 1, 2021 5:49 PM November 1 marks the anniversary of the first game in league history in 1946 when the New York Knicks faced the now-defunct Toronto Huskies. The NBA’s 75th anniversary was a season-long celebration of the game; but if there was a single anniversary date to commemorate, it would be the game between New York and Toronto on Nov. 1, 2021, as it marked 75 years to the day of the first game in league history. On Nov. 1, 1946, the New York Knickerbockers played the Toronto Huskies in front of 7,090 fans at Maple Leaf Gardens in the opening game of the Basketball Association of America (the league would be rebranded the National Basketball Association three years later). New York’s Leo Gottlieb scored 14 points to lead the Knick...

Knickerbockers Win, 68 to 66,  as Pro Basketball Opens  Before Crowd of 7,090 TORONTO, Nov. 1 (AP) - A pair of field goals by Dick Murphy and a free throw by Tommy Byrnes in the final 2 1/2 minutes enabled the New York Knickerbockers to nose out the Toronto Huskies, 68-66, in the opening game of the Basketball Association of America season as the professional cage game made its bow here tonight. The Huskies, waging an uphill battle most of the way, twice had overcome huge New York leads to pull ahead and with four minutes to play led, 61-60. The Knicks regained the lead when Nat Militzok connected with a long set shot. Then followed a furious three and a half minutes which had the crowd of 7,090 on the edge of their seats as the lead changed hands four times before Murphy's second long shot put the New Yorkers ahead to stay. Byrnes' free throw insured the victory. The Knicks started as if they meant to walk off with the game, forging into a 6-0 lead after less than two minutes...

En novembre 1968 la une est ilustrée par les trois hommes forts de l'année:  Mottet, Delgado et Fondriest. Le Miroir appelle aussi de ses vœux un e « révolution » Nel novembre del 1968, la prima pagina celebra i tre uomini forti dell’annata:  Mottet, Delgado e Fondriest. Il Miroir invoca a gran voce una «rivoluzione». Bernard Chambaz Miroir du Cyclisme - L'histoire d'un magazine mythique Sans aucun doute une espèce d'essoufflement gagne le Miroir du cyclisme . Certains signes précurseurs remontent assez loin. Ils sont le reflet de la crise qui affecte le cyclisme comme elle affecte d'ailleurs, à des titres divers, l'ensemble des activités sociales. Dès les années 1970, un éditorial de Maurice Vidal n'hésitait pas à « Rêver aux années 30 » ; un rêve à rebours où il dénonçait l'impéritie des structures internationales et de leurs dirigeants et appelait à « une révolution qui redonne le cyclisme aux cyclistes », dépassant le cadre d'une nostalgie lég...