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Restés sur le pavé

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Victimes d'une lourde chute, Wout Van Aert , forfait pour le Ronde et Paris-Roubaix, et Mads Pedersen , qui a aussi abandonné hier, laissent la voie libre à Mathieu van der Poel. 28 Mar 2024 - L'Équipe YOHANN HAUTBOIS (avec P.L.G.) WAREGEM (BEL) – Le staff de Visma - Lease a bike s’est engouffré dans une des voitures de l’équipe, le temps de regarder en direct les derniers hectomètres de Matteo Jorgenson remontant, victorieux, la voie Verbindindings ( voir ci-contre). Quelques minutes plus tard, les directeurs sportifs Merijn Zeeman et Arthur Van Dongen s’en sont extraits comme s’ils se rendaient à un enterrement, bientôt suivis par le grand patron Richard Plugge , beaucoup moins rigolard qu’au départ, le matin, à Roeselare. Si le speaker n’avait pas hurlé «Jorgenson!» , il aurait été difficile de croire que l’Américain venait de s’imposer tant les mines, sombres et défaites, trahissaient moins l’inquiétude que la résignation après la chute de Wout Van Aert, deux heures plus t

ESCAPE FROM HELL - 2007 : STUART O’GRADY (II/V)

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2007 : Stuart O’Grady (II/V) In the end, it's not always the strongest who wins. Certainly not in cycling, and most definitely not in Paris-Roubaix. On the roads of the Hell of the North, the "strongest" can just as easily win in the legendary velodrome as get bogged down in the Trouée d'Arenberg. Year after year, the cobblestone crushers crash in the Mons-en-Pévèle sector or collapse in the Carrefour de l’Arbre - and one cannot underestimate the traps of the asphalt either. On these unique roads, an aspirant for glory needs to be strong, but also brave and lucky. Paris-Roubaix smiles on the bold, even those who have been out there the longest. In a race where chaos is always the order of the day, early attackers create unsuspected openings. Conquerors of the Hell of the North, they tell us about their heavenly day on the cobbles. O’Grady: “It was like having an out-of-body experience" Stuart O’Grady knew everything about how to power victory in a velodrome when

MINNESOTA TEST, NORDIO A METÀ FRA ALBERTO SORDI E LICIO GELLI

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IL PIANO L’OSSESSIONE DEL MINISTRO: GIUDICI PSICOLABILI CHE INDAGANO POVERI POLITICI 28 Mar 2024 - Il Fatto Quotidiano DANIELA RANIERI Il ministro (della Giustizia) Nordio che, per giustificare l’introduzione di test psicoattitudinali per diventare magistrati, si vanta di aver superato ai suoi tempi il “test psicologico del Minnesota” è un notevole colpo di coda della gloriosa commedia all’italiana. L’albertosordismo rischia però di celare l’aporia principale: il fatto che Nordio l’abbia superato non ha instillato alcun dubbio nei membri del Consiglio dei ministri sulla precisione dello strumento appena approvato. Il Minnesota test, a cui oggi viene sottoposto chi vuole entrare nelle forze armate e in polizia (gente che deve maneggiare armi, esplosivi, etc.) prevede 567 domande a risposta multipla e si fonda su scale, come la Scala L, che indica la tendenza alla menzogna e la Scala K, che indica il livello di psicopatologia, e può rilevare sintomi clinici come depressione, ansia, rabbi

Aguirre was the final piece for The Bad Boys

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https://www.vintagedetroit.com/aguirre-final-piece-bad-boys/ by DAN D'ADDONA on FEBRUARY 26, 2018 Mark Aguirre and Isiah Thomas were selected #1 and #2 in the 1981 NBA Draft. The Bad Boys had finally broken through and won an NBA championship. In 1988-89, the Detroit Pistons finally were the best team in the world, no more Celtics, no more Lakers. Detroit fans remember the Bad Boys winning again the very next year. After all, going back-to-back was something the Celtics of that era didn’t accomplish. Just as when the Pistons won with a trade for Rasheed Wallace that gave the Pistons a spark fifteen years later, the original Bad Boys had a similar situation. In the middle of the 1988-89 season, after making it to the NBA Finals the previous year, the Pistons were in a bit of a chemistry battle as internal rifts were starting to show. Two-time NBA scoring champion Adrian Dantley was in the middle of it, wanting to be the go-to player on a team full of great players, most notably Isi

For Aguirre, It Was the Way to Fame; For His Two Close Friends, It Was a Lie

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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-03-13-sp-1842-story.html BY GENE WOJCIECHOWSKI  TIMES STAFF WRITER CHICAGO — MARCH 13, 1988 12 AM PT The dream had such humble beginnings. Ziggy--that was Mark Aguirre’s nickname back on the West Side--would borrow his grandfather’s pickup truck. Then he’d find Skip Dillard, his without-a-doubt, positively best friend of all time. Then they’d dig up the Dolph, short for Bernard Randolph, another teammate from Westinghouse High School. Then they’d cruise, looking for the purest game of basketball the streets could offer. They were something, those three. Discriminating, too. Sometimes they’d drive for hours and not find a game worth their trouble. Everything had to be just right: The competition (the taller the better), the pace (frantic), the attitude (cooool--no use getting your brains blown out because you fouled a guy). They looked for telltale court signs. If someone called charging, they got out of there quick. No game worth its weight

How does Isiah Thomas still have a job with the Knicks?

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New York Knicks coach and former Toronto Raptors' GM Isiah Thomas speaks  to the media outside Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007.  (AP / John Marshall Mantel) https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2007/nov/28/ussport His team can't win and he cost the franchise $11m in a sexual harassment suit - but still Isiah Thomas remains the coach in New York, writes Mark Woods Mark Woods  - The Guardian Wed 28 Nov 2007 - 19.58 CET Jose Mourinho - sacked for not being special enough (winning the Premier League, twice, obviously doesn't count for much). Billy Davies - ditched for complaining about a lack of transfer action despite taking Derby County into the Premier League on a dodgier budget than the Labour Party. Steve McClaren - axed for, well, being rubbish (who else could have Middlesbrough fans still remaining grateful for Gareth Southgate?). As for Isiah Thomas, head coach and president of the New York Knicks? Well, to start, just a few snippets from his current resum

Visma, touché pas encore coulé

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La formation néerlandaise, affaiblie par les blessures et les maladies, n’a pas connu le même début de campagne flandrienne que l’an passé. 27 Mar 2024 - L'Équipe YOHANN HAUTBOIS WAREGEM (BEL) – Les organisateurs d’À Travers la Flandre ont dressé, un peu partout dans le coin, des calicots avec les vainqueurs de l’édition passée. Si Demi Vollering s’alignera bien chez les femmes, Christophe Laporte, malade, a de nouveau décliné, comme depuis le début de la «quinzaine sainte». Apparemment, il ne fallait pas trop miser sur les coureurs de Visma - Lease a bike. Hier matin, Dylan Van Baarle, souffrant lui aussi, a déclaré forfait et le reste des troupes ne se porte pas mieux. «En ce moment, on a que des merdes, tout arrive en même temps, préfère en sourire Arthur Van Dongen. Dimanche dernier, Jan Tratnik a chuté assez lourdement. À l’E3 Saxo Classic, Per Strand Hagenes, après un bon camp à Tenerife, est également tombé et s’est cassé le nez.»Dylan Van Baarle (à gauche) et Christophe Lap

TSN Archives: Isiah Thomas has had a bumpy rookie year (Feb. 20, 1982)

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https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nba/news/tsn-archives-isiah-thomas-has-had-bumpy-rookie-year-feb-20-1982/tci3a0kwldz5qipoegzhqqsg This cover story, by Jay Mariotti, first appeared in Feb. 20, 1982, issue of The Sporting News, under the headline " ISIAH: Pistons' Sparkplug Has Had a Bumpy Rookie Year ," just past the midpoint of the Detroit icon's first NBA season. At only 20, Thomas did, in fact, have a lot to learn — and learn he did. Two seasons later, the Pistons were in the playoffs. Six years later they were in the NBA Finals and in 1989, with Thomas at the helm, Detroit so-called "Bad Boys" won the first of back-to-back NBA titles. TSN Archives   Jay Mariotti - The Sporting News 06-30-2022  - 13 min read DETROIT — The date was July 31, 1981. Isiah Thomas, a 20-year-old guard from Indiana University, had just signed a four-year, $1.6 million contract to play basketball for the Detroit Pistons . It should have been a moment of great joy and accomplishmen