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Homesick, Australian Grace Brown (FDJ-Suez) will end her career at the end of the season

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2 weeks ago

June 22, 2024

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Grace Brown will not extend her successful adventure at FDJ-Suez. The Australian, at the end of her contract with the French team, had been thinking since the start of the season about the next step in her career, at 31 years old. She had to communicate her response before the summer to her manager, Stephen Delcourt, in whom she has placed total trust since the start of their collaboration three years ago. “It’s unimaginable for me to see her wearing a jersey other than ours,” testified the boss of the World Tour team, who was ready to offer her a new contract.

Homesick, the Australian decided not to follow up on Delcourt’s proposal, preferring to return to her husband’s side, who remained 12,000 km from Paris. “I know I had many years of cycling left in my legs, but I miss my life in Australia,” explained the winner of Liège-Bastogne-Liège in the spring in a video on social networks. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

The rider, double world chrono vice-champion (2022, 2023), has set herself the goal of winning the gold medal at the Paris Olympics, where she intends to turn an important page in her life “in style” . Appreciated for her leadership, she was of invaluable help in the mountains for Évita Muzic during the Frenchwoman’s stage victory ahead of Demi Vollering at the Vuelta at the beginning of May. His departure will leave a big void within FDJ-Suez, and opens the way to a profound renewal of the workforce.

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Tragedy Strikes Moroccan Football: Five Players from Ittihad Tangier Disappear at Sea

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1 min ago

July 7, 2024

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It is a tragedy for Moroccan football. Five players from Ittihad Tangier have disappeared at sea during a yacht trip.

Communication with the boat was lost while five Ittihad Tangier players, including a first-team member and several hopefuls, were on board.

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According to local media Le360, the passengers jumped into the water to swim, and strong winds then pushed the yacht away from the water. The Royal Gendarmerie and the Royal Navy managed to save three players, found more than 800 meters from the shore after an hour and a half of searching. Two other people are still missing. An investigation has been opened by the gendarmerie services following this incident. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

2024-07-07 19:12:00
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Padua: Mager, Oradini, Pennaforti and Piraino in the seeding

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11 mins ago

July 7, 2024

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There are 13 Italian tennis players who have reached the decisive round of the qualifications of the “Canottieri Padova Open”, an ITF men’s tournament with a prize pool of 25 thousand dollars (red clay), now in its seventeenth edition. In the running for one of the eight places available for the main draw are…
2024-07-07 19:47:12
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Madison Keys Forced to Retire Due to Injury at Wimbledon, Jasmine Paolini Advances to Quarter-Finals

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20 mins ago

July 7, 2024

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A little drama unfolded on Court 1 at Wimbledon this Sunday. Madison Keys, in tears, had to resign herself to abandoning against Jasmine Paolini while she had narrowly escaped victory a few minutes earlier, leading 5-2 double break before injuring her left thigh and having to give up continuing this spectacular and emotional fight. The American, who had just conceded an ace, preferred to leave it there after 2 hours and 23 minutes of play, losing 6-3, 6-7(6), 5-5 (15-A) and letting her opponent slip away to her first quarter-final at Wimbledon. She will face another American, Coco Gauff or Emma Navarro.

The Roland-Garros finalist came within two points of victory in the deciding game of a second set that was already full of twists and turns, as she came back from 5-1, 40-15 down before losing on the wire. We thought we had settled the score. But that was without her extraordinary fighting spirit. And without the bad luck that struck Madison, of course. At 5-4, the latter left the court for a long medical timeout during which she had her left adductor strapped. But we quickly saw upon her return, when she could barely walk and push off on her legs, that it would be complicated. She tried to close on her serve but, once it was lost on a double fault, it was a lost cause.

A stroke of luck for the Italian but she fully deserves the good fortune that is currently accompanying her. She who had never won a match on grass before this year therefore follows a semi-final in Eastbourne with a first quarter-final here. She is the fifth Italian to reach the “big 8” in London after Laura Golarsa (1989), Silvia Farina Elia (2003), Francesca Schiavone (2009) and Camila Giorgi (2018). READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

2024-07-07 15:14:00
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