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Après avoir décroché l’or olympique sur le contre-lamontre, le Belge a réussi l’exploit unique de monter à nouveau sur la plus haute marche du podium, hier, lors de la course en ligne. "La crevaison? Ça a ajouté un peu de sel  à la fin de course et du piment à ma victoire" 4 Aug 2024 - L'Équipe MANUEL MARTINEZ (avec B.F.) Au bout du pont d’Iéna, la ligne à peine franchie et la tour Eiffel en toile de fond, Remco Evenepoel a pris le temps de goûter l’instant. Dans les derniers hectomètres, on pouvait lire une joie indescriptible dans son regard, comme s’il mesurait enfin, dans l’écrin parisien, toute la dimension de ce moment mémorable qui faisait de lui le premier coureur de l’histoire des Jeux Olympiques à décrocher l’or sur le contre-la-montre et la course en ligne. Hier, à 24ans, le prodige belge est bel et bien entré dans la légende du cyclisme. Médaillé d’or sur le chrono au lendemain de la cérémonie d’ouverture, six jours après avoir terminé troisième du Tour de Fr...

Mwepu Ilunga fue una de las figuras deportivas más importantes del Congo Mito de una falta cómica JOSEPH MWEPU ILUNGA (1949-2015) Mwepu Ilunga ganó dos Ligas de Campeones de la Confederación Africana Propias Guille Álvarez - La Vanguardia 24/05/2015 10:59 Actualizado a 25/05/2015 10:56 La memoria colectiva reserva un lugar muy elevado a Mwepu Ilunga, defensa de la llamativa selección de Zaire, que se clasificó para el Mundial de 1974 disputado en la RFA y protagonista de una de las jugadas más cómicas del fútbol moderno. El exjugador falleció el 8 de mayo en Kinshasha, capital de la actual República Democrática del Congo, a los 66 años. Los hechos ocurrieron un 22 de junio a media tarde. Minuto 78 de partido, con 3-0 en el marcador favorable a la vigente campeona Brasil, en un duelo sin consecuencias aparentes. El árbitro señala un libre directo, Rivelino y Jairzinho discuten sobre quién hará los honores y, mientras tanto, como un rayo, nuestro protagonista sale disparado a por el bal...

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/sports/soccer/11sot.html By William C. Rhoden June 10, 2010 . The New York Times Midrand, South Africa The master of ceremonies at a dinner here this week announced that after 34 years, a great African soccer mystery would be solved. After years of much silence, Mwepu Ilunga, the former defender from Zaire, would speak. A buzz shot through the room of 500 people. Ilunga had not said much about his bizarre play against Brazil in the 1974 World Cup. The guests spent the evening honoring African soccer legends. The night was a rich celebration of the continent’s soccer history — so much of it lost, forgotten and obscured — tied together by one event, the World Cup. The evening was organized by Samson Adamu, a Nigerian businessman whose father, Amos Adamu, is an executive member of FIFA, the world governing body of soccer. Adamu said his concept for the evening was to go beyond honoring great players and to also honor great players who stayed home. “Not j...

L’autrice originaire du comté de Clare, qui écrivait sur ses paysages, ses femmes et leur désir, est morte samedi à 93 ans. Inspirée par James Joyce, elle avait obtenu le prix spécial du jury Femina pour l’ensemble de son oeuvre en 2019. 30 Jul 2024 - Libération Frédérique Roussel Un jour, Edna O’Brien a dit à son agent : «Quand je serai morte, des horreurs vont être écrites sur moi.» L’écrivaine repoussait tous les biographes qui l’approchaient. «Fais-le toi-même», lui a intimé son agent. Elle a passé trois ans à remonter à la source de ses souvenirs, parfois dans la douleur et, à 82 ans, elle a publié Fille de la campagne (2012), Edna par Edna en somme. «Toutes les choses qui ont compté dans ma vie sont là.» La grande dame des lettres irlandaises, femme de tempérament et intrépide à sa manière, a succombé à la maladie samedi à l’âge de 93 ans, et qui sait si elle apprécierait tout ce qui s’écrit sur elle depuis. Heureusement, ses propres mémoires existent désormais, plus une bonne vi...

(c.arr.) Una delle più forti schermitrici del mondo a sognare @paris2024 @paralympics e una professoressa di ingegneria alla Federico II di Napoli. Per raccontare @rosspask bisogna partire da queste sue incarnazioni. Una storia bellissima che ho raccontato per @corrierebuonenotizie sul @corriere della Sera in edicola. Rossana Pasquino è un orgoglio italiano, della @federscherma e del @comitatoitalianoparalimpico nello sport, ma anche del @ministeroistruzione per quello che fa nel mondo accademico. Evviva! E grazie sempre a chi sa fermare il tempo come @augusto280766 Rossana alterna le pedane di scherma alle aule dell’università Federico II di Napoli Beneventana, paraplegica dall’età di 9 anni, approda a Parigi con un ricco medagliere Oro in Europa, Coppe del Mondo, Mondiali. Il progetto Campioni ogni giorno di P&G 30 Jul 2024 - Corriere della Sera Di Claudio Arrigoni © RIPRODUZIONE RISERVATA «Sono molto felice di questa vita complessa». Perché davvero la sua lo è. C’è la p...

Citazioni - Sulla lapide del genio Billy Wilder c’è l’epitaffio: “Sono uno scrittore. D’altra parte, nessuno è perfetto” 30 Jul 2024 - Il Fatto Quotidiano Carlo Grande  SANTA MONICA (LOS ANGELES) 3. Fine - Il contrasto tra le riserve indiane e Santa Monica, comune "VIP” della grande Los Angeles, non potrebbe essere più stridente. Finisce in California l’epopea western, Hollywood trasfigura le “anime morte” del Midwest e delle Grandi Pianure sugli schermi di tutto il mondo, reinventa e mistifica, per decenni, il genocidio, tranne pochi grandi film, da Soldato blu a Piccolo grande uomo e Balla coi lupi . Los Angeles è anche il mio approdo, a due passi dal Santa Monica Pier, il molo con la giostra panoramica e l’ottovolante già set di molti film per irregolari e ribelli: Forrest Gump , Il Grande Lebowski e La Stangata , il cui carousel, la giostrina con i cavalli, ha visto ruotare la truffa degli imbroglioni Paul Newman e Robert Redford. "The Industry", la macchina del c...

(Photo by Henri Szwarc/Bongarts/Getty Images) https://olympics.com/en/news/classic-finals-double-nigerian-comeback-makes-history The history of the Olympic Games is full of dramatic, emotional and beautiful moments that took place in finals. Every week, relive the most incredible finals you can remember on video. This week, we look at the 1996 men’s football final. 22 May 2020 15:50 GMT+2 The deets  Men's football final, Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games Argentina vs Nigeria Sanford Stadium, Athens, Georgia, USA, 3 August 1996 The background The first stages of the Olympic men’s football competition proved to be very different for each team. In the first round, Argentina played within themselves, but finished top of their group ahead of Portugal. However, they showed their muscle in the quarter-finals by beating Spain - the title holders - 4-0 with a brace from Hernan Crespo . They then disposed of Portugal 2-0 in the semis after another Crespo double. In comparison, Nigeria finished seco...

https://www.operazionenostalgia.com/atlanta-1996-tutti-i-protagonisti-di-argentina-nigeria/ La storica finale del torneo olimpico di Atlanta: da un lato l’Argentina di Passarella, dall’altro le Super Aquile di West e compagni. Tutti i nomi dei cavalieri di quella storica impresa (e degli sconfitti) Operazione nostalgia - 26 Marzo 2021 Un “quasi Mondiale” per la qualità dei talenti messi in campo, vinto da un collettivo animato da una sana follia, da una ottima tecnica, da furore agonistico e da una straripante superiorità atletica. È il 1996 e durante le Olimpiadi di Atlanta si assiste a quello che possiamo definire con certezza un evento storico: la prima volta che una nazionale non europea e nemmeno sudamericana a vincere la medaglia d’oro, una ascesa che si intravedeva già due anni prima, quando a USA '94 quei ragazzi con la maglia verde avevano decisamente ben impressionato. Avete indovinato? Vi stiamo riportando indietro di 25 anni, quando la Nigeria usciva vincitrice dal duri...

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-08-04-ss-31332-story.html By MIKE PENNERAug. 4, 1996 12 AM PT TIMES STAFF WRITER ATHENS, Ga. — Nigeria’s Olympic soccer players have a proposal for Johannes Bonfrere , the reluctant coach who quit the Nigerian team for five weeks this spring in a dispute over back pay owed him: Will he accept gold as payment instead? With their second stirring 16-minute rally in as many games, Nigeria’s “Super Eagles” became the first African nation to win a soccer gold medal Saturday by upsetting Argentina, 3-2, in a wild, controversial final before a sellout crowd of 86,117 at Sanford Stadium. Three days after scoring three goals in 16 minutes to defeat tournament favorite Brazil , Nigeria erased a 2-1 deficit against Argentina with goals by Daniel Amokachi and Emmanuel Amunike in the 74th and 89th minutes, although the Argentines will be griping about Amunike’s for quadrennials to come. A minute before the end of regulation time, Nigeria had a free kick ...

All eyes on Biles: American in dazzling return despite injury ‘They shuffled in, pursued by the flashing red dots of a thousand phone cameras’    -  Jonathan Liew on the celebrity crowd 29 Jul 2024 - The Guardian Tumaini Carayol - Bercy Arena As Simone Biles offered herself a few final quiet words of encouragement by the balance beam before she returned to compete in front of the world once again, the entire spectacle could have been so overwhelming. Bercy Arena was exploding with excitement whenever her name was mentioned. Countless celebrities, from Tom Cruise to Ariana Grande, lined the stands and flashed up on the screens. All eyes were on Biles, and she knew it. The competition draw that Biles and her US teammates received was also unhelpful. They were required to start on the balance beam, the most unpredictable apparatus and the event that exposes all tension and uncertainty. If you cannot control your nerves, you will fall. But Biles effortlessly worked her way th...

Basketball LeBron James has invested completely into Team USA’s campaign CHRISTINA PAHNKE/GETTY IMAGES Kevin Durant is unplayable at times as Americans dismantle rivals Serbia 110-84 in riotous pantomime 29 Jul 2024 - The Guardian Jonathan Liew Stade Pierre Mauroy Perhaps the pivotal moment in this game – tonally, if not competitively – came right at the end of the third quarter. Anthony Edwards sends Nikola Jokic to the shoe shop with an outrageous feint and slip, drains a simple two, and as he peels away he sees pretty much the entire bench doing impressions of him, spinning and reeling, consumed in fits of laughter. That, in hindsight, was probably the point at which a potentially tricky Olympic basketball opener against the world’s No 4 side dissolved fully into riotous, uproarious pantomime. So no, it’s fair to say Team USA did not get the memo. They are not burdened by your expectations. They are not keeping themselves up at night worrying about how they measure up against 1992....

Few other nations would have had the temerity to  stage an opening ceremony in such ambitious fashion ALEX PANTLING/GETTY IMAGES▲  Much of the outside world sees France as fractured 29 Jul 2024 - The Guardian Philippe Auclair Let’s face it, it was a failure . The rain, as if unleashed by a vengeful Olympian god upset at seeing what had become of the original Games, failed to derail the extravaganza devised by Thomas Jolly , as Poseidon’s storms had failed to prevent Odysseus from reaching Ithaca. The saboteurs who paralysed most of France’s TGV system on the eve of the opening ceremony failed too. One way or another, hundreds of thousands of drenched onlookers found a way to line the banks of the Seine to salute athletes and artists alike. And so did the rightwingers who had choked in their café crème when they’d heard that French-Malian Aya Nakamura was to perform on the big night, which she did, horror of horrors, with the Republican Guard in full parade garb, closing her s...

‘Kind, mischievous, brave’: Irish writer Edna O’Brien dies aged 93 ‘She was one of the first writers to provide  a true voice to the experiences of women in Ireland’    - Michael D Higgins President of Ireland 29 Jul 2024 - The Guardian Richard Lea The Irish writer Edna O’Brien , who explored the complications and contradictions of women’s lives in a literary career lasting more than half a century, has died aged 93 after a long illness, her agent has announced. In a series of novels beginning with The Country Girls that were at first banned in Ireland but feted abroad, O’Brien gave voice to women struggling with the oppressive and hypocritical expectations of rural life . Her focus widened in later works such as House of Splendid Isolation and The Little Red Chairs , but always maintained the keen intelligence and daring that made Philip Roth once hail her as “the most gifted woman now writing fiction in English”. Her publisher, Faber, said she was “one of the greates...

Kevin Durant, l’ailier des Phoenix Suns, toujours irrésistible avec les États-Unis, a signé un retour éclatant hier face à la Serbie, pour un net succès. "Il a un talent sans commune mesure"    - LEBRON JAMES, AILIER DES ÉTATS-UNIS "Je l’ai taquiné sur son seul tir raté.  Je suis sûr qu’il était furieux"    - DEVIN BOOKER, ARRIÈRE DES ÉTATS-UNIS 29 Jul 2024 - L'Équipe YANN OHNONA (avec S. Sa.) VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ – Une clameur et un brouhaha indescriptibles ont envahi les travées du stade Pierre-Mauroy quand, au buzzer de la mi-temps, la longue silhouette de Kevin Durant s’est étirée dans les airs pour inscrire, sur un service de son ami LeBron James, un panier à reculons de classe mondiale. Après avoir tenu le choc un quart-temps et demi face aux autoproclamés «Avengers» américains, la Serbie, candidate à la médaille d’or, a peu à peu plié (49-58, 20e) . Avant de céder (84-110) sous les coups du natif de Washington, auteur d’une mitemps en forme de récital (21 po...