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L’Italbici in Ruanda tra sogni e rinunce Niente cibo da casa I primi azzurri atterrati in Africa: oggi si allenano  Il ct Villa: «Compreremo in un negozio locale» L’escursione termica si sente: fa molto caldo nelle ore centrali 19 Sep 2025 - La Gazzetta dello Sport  di Filippo Maria Ricci CORRISPONDENTE DA MADRID SPAGNA) © RIPRODUZIONE RISERVATA Arrivati. Il primo contingente azzurro partito mercoledì sera da Malpensa è atterrato ieri pomeriggio a Kigali, Ruanda , per disputare il Mondiale che prenderà il via domenica con la cronometro individuale. Gli ultimi ritorni della comitiva italiana sono previsti per lunedì 29 , speriamo col bagaglio appesantito da oggetti di metallo acquisiti in corsa. Il viaggio in compagnia della nazionale svizzera è stato fatto in due tappe: 6 ore e mezzo per arrivare allo scalo di Addis Abeba in Etiopia, lunga sosta, altre due e mezzo per raggiungere il Ruanda . «È andato tutto bene, il primo impatto è stato decisamente soft – racconta favorevolme...

American actor Robert Redford on the set of the skiing drama 'Downhill Racer', Kitzbuhl, Austria, 1969. (Photo by Ernst Haas/Getty Images) (Photo: Ernst Haas / Getty Contributor) https://www.skimag.com/culture/robert-redford-ski-tribute/?utm_medium=organic-social&utm_source=SKI_Magazine-facebook&utm_content=comment&fbclid=IwY2xjawM6IfxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF6MlYzcGV0NWNUREx4ejBJAR613ljvu13-N9ITD2A66wDYqx5GI0tNzXXH1Xa-_pj3T4XpS5iIoNfv2VrVLw_aem_fWSfWnHmIZLROjLCc1jJXg In honor of the late Robert Redford we revisit an interview with him from November 1975. Dick Needham   Jamie Aranoff   Updated September 18, 2025 02:29PM Robert Redford passed away this week at the age of 89. He was a pioneer both in the film and ski industry and the founder of Sundance Resort in Sundance, Utah. To celebrate a storied career in the ski industry, we revisit an interview from 1975 written by Dick Needham, a longtime editor of SKI, on Mr. Redford, where he shares his take on learning to ...

Haaland can undo the best of plans, and Conte is ruthless, so off came returning hero De Bruyne 19 Sep 2025 - The Guardian Jonathan Wilson - @Etihad Stadium Everybody has a plan until Erling Haaland charges at them. Familiarity, perhaps, has dulled in Premier League minds just what a terrifying prospect he is, nearly 90kg of Norwegian muscle capable of moving at ferocious speeds yet blessed as well with a deft touch and a range of finishes. Manchester United couldn’t stop him, and neither could Napoli. Even when Haaland isn’t scoring he is spreading terror. Giovanni Di Lorenzo is an experienced defender. He is the Napoli captain. He has won half a century of caps for Italy. But when Phil Foden – the signs of rejuvenation he showed on Sunday happily maintained against Napoli – slipped an angled pass through the back four after 21 minutes, Di Lorenzo, presumably aware of the presence of Haaland and worried about the unstoppable force he represents when he gets going, stepped across his l...

DANIEL CHESTERTON/ OFFSIDE/GETTY  Familiar face back to haunt Magpies Marcus Rashford  scored his first goals for Barcelona upon his return to England 19 Sep 2025 - The Guardian Louise Taylor - @St James’ Park A little over 24 hours before kick-off, Hansi Flick spoke about how lucky he felt to have acquired Marcus Rashford on loan from Manchester United. Barcelona’s manager was not bothered that the forward’s stock had fallen so far. Rashford, he said, was a player he had long admired and could help improve. In the 82nd minute, Rashford walked off wreathed in smiles before being wrapped in Flick’s heartfelt embrace. Ruben Amorim’s bete noire had just scored two splendid goals that not merely rendered Eddie Howe’s rather effective gameplan academic but silenced St James’ Park. With Faustino Asprilla – the scorer of a famous hat-trick for Newcastle as Barcelona succumbed 3-2 on Tyneside in 1997 – having flown in from Colombia to help cheer on his old team, it was not supposed to...

JON SUPER/AP  Marcus Rashford salutes the crowd with his trademark celebration  after a rasping strike puts Barcelona 2-0 in front 19 Sep 2025 - The Guardian Louise Taylor - @ St James’ Park Marcus Rashford believes he can finally fulfil his true potential at Barcelona after scoring two stunning Champions League goals in front of the watching England coach Thomas Tuchel at Newcastle last night. The 27-year-old Manchester United loanee opened the scoring with a fine 58th-minute header before firing in the second goal from 20 yards. Rashford had done enough to ensure that, despite Anthony Gordon’s 90th-minute consolation, Eddie Howe’s side were beaten. “It is going good. I am obviously learning a lot,” Rashford said afterwards as he praised his new manager, Hansi Flick. “It is a new way of football, but I am enjoying it all and I think it is making me a better player. “I’m 100% full of excitement and very motivated. Hansi Flick is a top coach and a top man-manager. We want to wi...

DANIEL CHESTERTON/ OFFSIDE/GETTY  Nick Pope is beaten by Marcus Rashford’s header  as Barcelona open the scoring at St James’ Park The suspicion from this is that Rashford and Barça could suit each other down to the ground 9 Sep 2025 - The Guardian Andy Brassell - @St James’ Park It was the day that Uefa confirmed, as kick-off approached in Barcelona’s Champions League season, that La Liga’s champions would begin their home campaign in the competition against Paris Saint-Germain next month where they ended the last one, at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys. With their supporters getting ready to renew their journey up the slopes of Montjuic that few of them care for, their climb to potential glory mirrors the hopes of one of their new arrivals. And how he has arrived. Flags do not get planted at the summit much more emphatically than this, and Marcus Rashford could not have picked his moment better to announce himself with Barcelona. His first two goals for the club, setting ...

Ralph Fiennes, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, James Vanderbilt and more on working with cinema’s blue-eyed boy "He was always the coolest, calmest person in the room" "He looked at me through the crowd and smiled. It was the sweetest smile – I’ll always treasure it" With his kindness, his generosity and his extraordinary aura, Robert Redford won hearts all over Hollywood. Here, co-stars and colleagues pay tribute to the late actor 19 Sep 2025 G2 - THE GUARDIAN 'At every turn he chose to disarm, to put you at ease'    - James Vanderbilt ( Truth , 2015) He knew the effect he had on people. Crew members who’d been working on movies for 30 years would turn into teenagers at the sight of him. Cate Blanchett told me she changed clothes three times before coming to work in case she bumped into him before she went into wardrobe. He started out as a stage actor, then became the most handsome and famous movie star in the world, then decided he wanted to become a producer, an...

https://www.sport-e-cultura.com/2020/06/19/plume-storia-e-maledizione-del-primo-campionissimo-parte-prima/ di SIMONE BASSO - Possibilia 19 giugno 2020 “Ci trattano come bestie sul campo della fiera.” Nella figura di Henri Pélissier possiamo leggere le viscere del primo Novecento sportivo, scoprire la nostra infatuazione per quel mestiere (crudele) che si chiama ciclismo. Plume fu così personaggio da rappresentare, da solo, già tutta l’epica sporca di un rito: ebbe una carriera agonistica pari alla vita, cioè esagerata e improbabile. Nell’essenza tormentata di quella Francia, pareva una trasposizione in carne e ossa di uno dei protagonisti bastardi dei romanzi di Celine. Campionissimo anomalo e bizzarro, spostò verso l’infinito la complessità della sua professione, rappresentandone (inconsciamente) un avamposto. Nulla è banale nell’anabasi di Henri: fu così che iniziò la sua odissea a sedici anni, cacciato di casa dal padre. I Pelissier, originari dell’Auvergne, si trasferirono a Pari...