Sjefene tar varmegrep i Tour de France
Det internasjonale sykkelforbundet (UCI) tar grep og myker opp forpleiningsreglene i Tour de France for å ta bedre hensyn til rytternes helse i ekstremvarmen.
Tiltakene kommer fram i en pressemelding fra UCI tirsdag formiddag.
Konkret åpner man unntaksvis for bruk av forpleiningsposer i soner som opprinnelig kun var godkjent for utdeling av flasker, såkalte vannflaskesoner, selv om disse befinner seg på offisielle klatrestrekninger.
Hensikten er å gjøre det mulig å dele ut flere flasker til hver rytter samtidig, slik at man sikrer optimalt væskeinntak under de varslede værforholdene.
UCI understreker at tiltaket innføres på prøvebasis, og at det vil bli evaluert fortløpende ut fra værforhold, effektivitet og innvirkning på gjennomføringen av rittet. ipltable.lol
The US supreme court’s ruling on trans people in sports is an assault on bodily autonomy | Judith Levine
Laws banning trans athletes claim to defend science, fairness, and women’s safety. They do the opposite
Last week, the US supreme court ruled that states may restrict participation in girls’ and women’s sports to “biological females” and exclude transgender athletes from competing. In the past six years, 27 states have enacted such bans; before the court were challenges to West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act and Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act.
The majority opinion, penned by justice Brett Kavanaugh, upholds the laws’ legality under Title IX, the federal statute that guarantees women’s equal participation in college sports, and their constitutionality under the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. It also vindicates Donald Trump’s February 2025 executive order “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports”. That directive withdraws funding from “educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy”. US policy, the order continues, will “oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth”.
Continue reading...Newcastle close in on signing Ajax generational talent Steur for £23m
Howe rebuilding side after Tonali and Gordon exits
Widely hyped as Amsterdam club’s next De Jong
Newcastle are close to completing the signing of Sean Steur from Ajax for around £23m. The two-footed central midfielder is only 18 but has been widely hyped as the Amsterdam club’s brightest emerging midfield talent since Frenkie de Jong.
While De Jong has graduated to Barcelona, Steur, who can operate as a No 6 or a No 8, seems almost certainly Tyneside bound. At St James’ Park he is likely to start next season competing with Lewis Miley to fill Sandro Tonali’s old central midfield role and will be given time to adjust to the Premier League’s physicality.
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