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https://www.sport-e-cultura.com/2026/05/31/diario-del-giro-2026/ di SIMONE BASSO - Sport e Cultura Pubblicato il 31 maggio 2026 T1: 9 maggio, Burgas-Veliko Tarnovo La Festa di Maggio, la nostra (mica della maggioranza degli italiani), comincia in Bulgaria. Da quelle parti sarebbe l’evento sportivo più importante mai ospitato. 11 milioni di euro sull’unghia, per l’entusiasmo di RCS Sport che – nel Bel Paese – ha una fila discreta di Comuni morosi. Ieri a Burgas, volatone con tombola annessa, cortesia di un restringimento stradale (malandrino). A 600 metri dalla fettuccina, nel marasma, 11 davanti e dietro un tappo di girini e biciclette. Ha la peggio Matteo Moschetti , commozione cerebrale e addio al Giro: i 184 atleti diventano 183, i 41 italiani (primato negativo di sempre) diventano 40. Si impone Paul Magnier – 1710 watt e 66,9 km/h gli apici negli ultimi 200 metri. Il texano di Grenoble (dove è cresciuto, è un francese nato a Laredo, in Texas, ndr), 22 anni, è già alla vittoria 27...

Cameron Spencer/Getty Images - Goal-line technology has come  a  long  way since Lampard’s disallowed goal at the 2010 World Cup. Sport and politics are both shaped, for good or ill, in the chamber of public opinion Politics has no replay booth. No official stepping in to reverse the call after cooler heads prevail 31 May 2026 - THE OBSERVER / Sport Matthew Barzun  An English friend interrupted my enthusiasm about the upcoming World Cup in my native country with a reminder. “You have to remember,” he said, “that for many of us the World Cup is simply a recurring four-year event in which England loses to Germany on penalties.” Point taken. His remark reminded me of an old radio essay on National Public Radio by the American sportswriter Frank Deford. I tried unsuccessfully to find it again recently. I know it aired sometime after the 2010 World Cup and before Deford died nine years ago this week. Deford was one of those rare sportswriters who understood that sport con...

Salah’s outbursts, set piece challenges and a changing squad mark the tenure of the manager A more physical, more dynamic style of football than Slot promised has been required 31 May 2026 - THE OBSERVER / Sport Rory Smith The science had not changed. All of the numbers, the metrics, the fine-tuned calculations that had persuaded Liverpool to anoint Arne Slot as Jürgen Klopp’s successor two years ago still held. All of the information available to the club’s fearsomely bright and impressively extensive research department said what it had always said. Slot had not suddenly forgotten how to coach. He had not misplaced his tactical acumen. He had not suddenly abandoned his playing style or his game vision or his philosophy, whatever we are calling it these days. He had not become a bad manager overnight, or even over the course of one deflating campaign. He was, on the day Liverpool sacked him, no less accomplished or talented than he had been on the day the club appointed him, two years...

Vadim Ghirda/AP  Beaten English champions return to London with heads held high after best season in a generation There is no reason for anyone involved to feel even slightly abashed. Arsenal ended their 22-year wait for a Premier League title. That is worth celebrating 31 May 2026 - THE OBSERVER / Sport Rory Smith - @Puskás Aréna PSG Arsenal  1-1 AET: 4-3 after penalties O. Dembélé (65 pen) K. Havertz (6) It was always going to be agony. Deep down, Arsenal would have known that from the start. Not just because of the stage, or the stakes, or the quality of their opponent, but because all of their bitter experience of the Champions League has taught them that there is no other way. This competition has made Arsenal suffer. But it has never made them suffer like this. The torture that Mikel Arteta’s team endured in Budapest was so cruel as to be exquisite. Everything that has gone before – the dismay of Paris, 20 years ago, Robin van Persie’s red card in Barcelona, the increasi...

Felix Gall, éternel second de Jonas Vingegaard  sur ce Giro, dans la montée de Piancavallo. Dans un Giro surdominé par Jonas Vingegaard, vainqueur d’une cinquième étape hier, l’Autrichien Felix Gall va terminer deuxième du général et décrocher son premier podium dans un Grand Tour. 31 May 2026 - L'Équipe THOMAS PEROTTO PIANCAVALLO (ITA)– L’absolutisme de son Giro s’est achevé hier aprèsmidi dans les Préalpes carniques par une cinquième victoire d’étape. Jonas Vingegaard, rose et seul sur un vélo, mettait un dernier coup de marteau à un classement général qui ne vivait déjà plus aucun suspense. À Piancavallo, un homme a pu une nouvelle fois se targuer d’être le plus fort d’un monde où le Danois ne serait pas pris en compte. Felix Gall, éternel second des étapes remportées par Vingegaard sur ce Giro (Blockhaus, Corno alle Scale, Pila, Cari et Piancavallo), montera sauf accident aujourd’hui à Rome sur la deuxième marche du podium. Un accomplissement pour l’Autrichien de Decathlon-CMA ...

Le Giro installe définitivement Paul Magnier, 22 ans, dans la caste des grands sprinteurs. Les autres Français, eux, préparent le prochain Tour de France. 29 May 2026 - Vélo Magazine Par Jean-François Quénet. Jegat en mission Tour de France Après son retour gagnant à la Classic Grand Besançon Doubs le 17 avril, à la suite d’une longue période de repos forcé, Jordan Jegat a préféré participer au Tour de Turquie plutôt qu’à Liège-bastogne-liège. Le Monument était pourtant taillé pour ses qualités de grimpeur, mais le Français de 26 ans ressentait le besoin de disputer une course par étapes afin de poursuivre sa préparation pour le Tour de France. À écouter ses adversaires, il était le grand favori, mais, à la première des deux arrivées au sommet, Jegat a souffert de la chaleur et du manque de compétition. Le dixième du Tour 2025 a tout de même gagné dans l’affaire en Nicolas Breuillard, un équipier qui pourrait lui être précieux en montagne. Le Provençal de 26 ans, troisième à Kiran derr...