An emotional Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix spoke brazenly about her struggles along with her psychological well being and mentioned she reminded herself that she is “grateful to be alive” as she completed her Olympics sixth within the 10m platform closing.

Spendolini-Sirieix, who’s the daughter of TV persona Fred Sirieix, had beforehand revealed that she skilled despair and felt like a disappointment after her Olympic debut in Tokyo three years in the past, when she was 16.

Now 19, Spendolini-Sirieix took dwelling bronze within the synchronised occasion final week to win her first Olympics medal. Whereas she was emotional after lacking out on the rostrum in her particular person closing, Spendolini-Sirieix mentioned she was extra happy with her journey.

Spendolini-Sirieix mentioned in an interview with the BBC that she “didn’t wish to be alive” following her first Olympics and later defined: “After Tokyo it was a extremely scary time for myself. That’s why I treasure each morning.”

“Generally the Olympic medal isn’t every thing,” she mentioned “We’ve bought different issues that we actually needs to be extra grateful for, and people are the issues that we sadly take with no consideration.

“I’m genuinely not upset about my efficiency, and I’m not upset about the place I got here. My rivals did higher than me right now. It simply implies that I’ve bought much more that I have to do and that I have to work on.

“Not getting the medal right now doesn’t take away from the medal that I’ve acquired and the achievements that I’ve performed the entire three years since Tokyo.”

Spendolini-Sirieix contemplated giving up the game after Tokyo and marked her return to the Olympics with a resilient bronze with associate Lois Toulson within the girls’s synchronised 10m platform final week.

Spendolini-Sirieix was 16 throughout her first Olympics, the place she suffered via the “twisties”, the identical disorienting psychological block gymnastics star Simone Biles skilled on the identical Video games.

She didn’t hand over on the game and received a silver medal together with Toulson eventually yr’s World Championship earlier than claiming a memorable bronze in Paris on their try within the synchronised closing.

The 19-year-old mentioned having the assist of her household in Paris helped her to take pleasure in her second Olympics and believes she’s going to look again on her expertise with fond reminiscences.

“I really feel like I’ve grown as a human being, not simply as an athlete. And I believe that’s the Most worthy factor that diving has ever given me,” she mentioned.

“At present simply wasn’t my day. However I nonetheless give glory to God, as a result of there was some nice issues in there, issues that I actually, actually labored on. It simply pushes me to be hungrier for extra.

“I really feel like there’s plenty of struggles that everybody doesn’t see, and that we push via silently. You don’t simply see one efficiency and assume, oh, like they’re doing superb, like we’re all battling with one thing, one way or the other.”

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Stephen Nedoroscik’s meticulous consideration to particulars and rituals don’t cease along with his pommel horse routine.

Exterior the fitness center, the American athlete might be obsessive, too.

So when he once more solved his Rubik’s Dice in underneath 10 seconds on Saturday forward of the pommel horse last on the Paris Olympics, he knew it was a very good omen. He knew he might ship a efficiency that might earn him one other medal.

“After I solved it underneath 10 seconds earlier than 4 workforce finals, fixing it once more underneath 10 seconds for this competitors or right now, I used to be like, all proper, we acquired this,” the 25-year-old mentioned.

Earlier this week, the pommel horse specialist performed an important position in serving to the U.S. males earn bronze within the workforce last, sealing this system’s first Olympic medal in 16 years with a lights-out routine.

Nedoroscik was sensational once more underneath the roof of the Bercy Enviornment, flying over handles and touring comfortable from one facet of the pommel horse to the opposite.

It was a good contest, and Nedoroscik misplaced to two-time world champion Rhys McClenaghan of Eire and Nariman Kurbanov of Kazakhstan. McClenaghan received with a rating of 15.533, with Nedoroscik capping his memorable keep in Paris with 15.300 factors.

Whereas McClenaghan elevated the issue of his routine, Nedoroscik tried some upgrades at coaching however lastly opted towards a change of plans. He additionally stored the identical weight-reduction plan.

“We simply continued to do the identical ritual time and again. I had six items of inexperienced apple within the morning with a chocolate muffin,” he mentioned. “That was my breakfast. I simply stored every thing precisely the identical.”

Specializing in a self-discipline that no person is aware of outdoors gymnastics circles, the Worcester, Massachusetts, native who received two NCAA championships at Penn State, has develop into a social media movie star, with dozens of memes and footage of him circulating within the digital world.

“It’s simply that unbelievable, the quantity of people who find themselves reaching out, following me. They have been going loopy. I imply,” he mentioned. “I assumed they have been hilarious. I’m glad that individuals are making memes of me. I feel it’s so humorous. I actually needed to go and switch off my notifications yesterday as a result of I wanted to have the ability to lock in for this competitors.”

His new followers have in contrast the bespectacled Nedoroscik to Superman’s alter ego Clark Kent for his potential to rework right into a hero on the pommel horse.

“If somebody had requested me what about I might ultimately achieve traction, I might have in all probability mentioned it was my eyewear or extra of my eyes, my ailments that I’ve,” he mentioned. “You realize, I do assume I’m only a quirky man, and I’m glad that individuals are having fun with my competitors.”

Pommel horse is an equipment the American males have traditionally struggled with, however Nedoroscik has beloved it since childhood. He practiced on it for hours after his mother and father put in one within the yard. In 2021, Nedoroscik turned the primary U.S. gymnast to win a world championship gold medal on pommel horse.

The “monotony” and rituals Nedoroscik enjoys a lot, nonetheless, have been disturbed by the departure from the athletes village of a few of his U.S. teammates who have been already completed with their very own competitions.

“So it was positively slightly lonely within the village,” he mentioned. “However to fill that point, I solved the Rubik’s Dice a pair hundred occasions and acquired myself one other sub 10. In order that’s about all I wanted for this competitors.”

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Greater than 18 months since a horrific accident on the set of High Gear, Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff has revealed his struggles with anxiousness, nightmares and flashbacks after struggling life-changing accidents.

Flintoff was driving an open-topped three-wheel automotive when it flipped and slid alongside the observe at Surrey’s Dunsfold aerodome in December 2022. He was airlifted to hospital after struggling facial accidents and damaged ribs.

In a brand new BBC present, Freddie Flintoff’s Area of Desires on Tour, the 46-year-old speaks about how he was “crying each two minutes” and left his dwelling just for medical appointments within the seven months after the crash in a Morgan Tremendous 3.

Within the docuseries, a sequel to 2022’s Freddie Flintoff’s Area of Desires, Flintoff takes a gaggle of younger individuals from his dwelling city of Preston on a cricketing tour of India – a visit that needed to be postponed after the star’s crash.

The primary episode exhibits Flintoff in what seems to be a hospital mattress speaking in regards to the crash. “I genuinely shouldn’t be right here with what occurred,” he says. “This might be a protracted street again and I’ve solely simply began. I’m caught already. I need assistance, and I realise I’m not the perfect at asking for it. I have to cease crying each two minutes.”

He provides: “I’ve bought to take a look at the positives, haven’t I? I’m nonetheless right here, I’ve bought one other probability, I’ve bought to go at it. I’m seeing that as how it’s, a second go. I’m actually wanting ahead to seeing the lads once more and being round them, I actually am.”

Seven months later, after a number of operations for facial accidents, the movie exhibits Flintoff reflecting additional on the psychological and bodily impacts of the crash.

“I believed I may simply shake it off … however it’s not been a case of that. It’s been so much more durable than I believed. As a lot as I’ve needed to exit and do issues, I’ve simply not been capable of.

“I used to be full of tension. I had nightmares, I had flashbacks. It’s been so exhausting to deal with. However a few of these lads have had a tricky life. You’ve bought to try to put it into perspective and I really feel responsible I can’t try this. I don’t need to sit right here and really feel sorry for myself, I don’t need sympathy.”

The BBC introduced it had “rested” High Gear, which had been working since 2002, for the foreseeable future after Flintoff’s accident and paid £9m in compensation to him.

The previous Lancashire all-round cricketer has since made a gradual return to the general public eye, rejoining England’s backroom workers for his or her T20 sequence in opposition to the West Indies earlier this yr, and as head coach of the Northern Superchargers within the Hundred.

Within the episode, his former Lancashire teammate Kyle Hogg, who helps to teach the workforce, may be seen telling the gamers about Flintoff’s crash, and that their journey to India might be postponed.

However whereas Flintoff shut himself away for some months to recuperate, his loyalty to the workforce was what ultimately motivated him to get on the market once more. He’s later seen reuniting with the workforce and asking in the event that they nonetheless need to go to India.

It was an emotional reunion. “I missed you,” one of many boys tells him, whereas one other asks if he’s “feeling 100%”.

“Probably not,” Flintoff replies. “I’m undecided I ever will once more, to be trustworthy. I’m higher than I used to be. I don’t know what utterly higher is. I’m what I’m now, I’m completely different to what I used to be, that’s one thing I’ll need to cope with for the remainder of my life. Higher, no. Totally different.”

As soon as the workforce is in India, Flintoff explains that he feels “like a father to the lads”, and says cricket helps him to recuperate from his crash. “Once I’m round cricket, I appear to neglect all the things, I lose myself within the sport,” he says.

“I really feel like I’ve been extra susceptible than I ever have in my life up to now 12 months, so I’m reaching out to cricket I suppose once more, to assist me.”

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PARIS — For Stephen Nedoroscik, it is official: Fixing his Rubik’s dice in beneath 10 seconds the morning earlier than he competes within the Olympic Video games has now gone two-for-two as an omen of a medal to come back. 

You might know Nedoroscik as merely “Pommel Horse Man,” in case you are one of many many People he dazzled along with his Clark Kent-style take-off-the-glasses-and-save-the-day heroics within the males’s gymnastics workforce finals earlier this week, wherein his pommel horse routine clinched a historic medal for the U.S. 

On the morning of the workforce closing, he’d solved a Rubik’s dice in beneath ten seconds, declaring it a “good omen” in a submit to his Instagram. 

On Saturday, Nedoroscik did it once more. “Good omen pt. 2,” he wrote — then seven hours later, he received the bronze medal within the Olympic Video games pommel horse closing in Paris. 

The Rubik’s dice is a approach of meditating and filling time on lengthy competitors days, he mentioned. He used to fret {that a} fast resolve was a foreboding signal, a warning {that a} poor efficiency would quickly comply with. “Up to now, I used to be like, ‘Oh my gosh, that is going to finish up being the perfect factor I do in the present day.’ So it could form of freak me out,” he mentioned. 

That modified this week. “However after I solved it beneath 10 seconds earlier than workforce finals, fixing it once more beneath 10 seconds in the present day, I used to be like, ‘All proper, we obtained this,'” he mentioned, laughing at a press convention afterward. 

On Saturday, at Paris’s Bercy Enviornment, Nedoroscik was certainly one of eight males competing for the gold on this area of interest equipment that’s so typically a weak spot for different sturdy all-around gymnasts. 

Earlier than he started, he eliminated the glasses that endeared him to so many, and he hooked them over the rim of the chalk bowl. Then got here his routine, some 40 seconds of mesmerizing swings of his legs in circles across the horse, with one-handed twirls on the handles and walks up and down the equipment.

Through the qualification spherical final weekend, Nedoroscik had tied for highest rating, lifting hopes of a gold medal within the closing.

However some opponents carried out tougher routines on Saturday, together with Eire’s Rhys McClenaghan, who received the occasion finally 12 months’s World Championships and once more took the gold on Saturday, with a rating of 15.533. Nariman Kurbanov of Kazakhstan received silver.

Nedoroscik’s bronze on Saturday was his second medal of those Olympics after serving to the U.S. males’s gymnastics workforce win bronze through the workforce all-around closing earlier within the week.

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In the long run, Nedoroscik’s rating of 15.3 received him bronze. Nedoroscik was the one American male gymnast to qualify for an equipment closing.

Within the lineup of eight, Nedoroscik went fifth, after McClenaghan. Nedoroscik selected to not watch any opponents or have a look at any scores earlier than his flip. 

As an alternative, he mentioned, he determined to carry out his typical routine, irrespective of the circumstances, relatively than change to a tougher routine. “I performed round with upgrades yesterday, and it simply did not really feel prefer it was going that nicely,” Nedoroscik mentioned, including that he has been coping with stress accidents. 

That meant his possibilities of eclipsing McClenaghan’s excessive rating have been slim. 

“I actually did not know what he scored, and I did not know what I needed to get,” Nedoroscik mentioned. “However touchdown on the bottom and seeing his completely big rating, I used to be like, ‘I do not suppose I’ve achieved sufficient, however wow, that’s superb for Rhys.'”

Afterward, McClenaghan pulled Nedoroscik in for a hug. “I used to be nervous watching you, as a result of you are able to do any routine,” McClenaghan mentioned on the press convention, turning to face Nedoroscik. “He can do big problem and pull it off when it issues.” 

Nedoroscik, a pommel horse specialist, was chosen to the U.S. males’s gymnastics workforce to bolster what officers considered as a relative weak spot for the remainder of the squad.

The eye he is drawn over the previous week for his performances has been each enjoyable and distracting, he mentioned. 

“I’ve simply been persistently on high of the world for the previous week now,” Nedoroscik mentioned. “I actually needed to go and switch off my notifications yesterday as a result of I wanted to have the ability to lock in for this competitors.” 

Within the workforce closing, the U.S. had been assigned to the pommel horse for its final rotation. And Nedoroscik went final — which means it was his routine that clinched the bronze for the U.S., the primary workforce medal the nation had received in 16 years.

However till then, he needed to wait as his teammates carried out on the opposite 5 occasions; in its broadcast, NBC even included a countdown timer, exhibiting the hour-and-then-some that Nedoroscik had sit on the sidelines.

When he landed his routine, his teammates burst into joyous cheers and lifted him onto their shoulders. “It was simply the best second of my life, I feel, and I’m so glad to have been there,” Nedoroscik mentioned.

Freddie Flintoff has laid naked the bodily and emotional turmoil he has suffered within the wake of a near-fatal High Gear crash, admitting he “genuinely shouldn’t be right here”.

The previous cricketer was concerned in a horrifying accident whereas filming the motoring present in December 2022, which led to the BBC suspending manufacturing for the “foreseeable future”, saying it could be inappropriate to proceed.

In a brand new BBC documentary, Flintoff opens up in regards to the crash, which left him with facial accidents requiring surgical procedure, revealing for the primary time that he nonetheless suffers nightmares, flashbacks and nervousness.

“I genuinely shouldn’t be right here after what occurred,” he mentioned, revealing that he was unable to “simply shake it off” after the crash.

In scenes set to be proven on Freddie Flintoff’s Discipline of Desires on Tour later this month, Flintoff mentioned shortly after the accident: “I don’t wish to sit and really feel sorry for myself. I don’t need sympathy. I’m fighting my nervousness, I’ve nightmares, I’ve flashbacks – it’s been so exhausting to manage.

“However I’m pondering if I don’t do one thing, I’ll by no means go. I’ve obtained to get on with it.”

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Freddie Flintoff’s Discipline of Desires sees the retired cricketer head to India to shoot with the Lancashire Cricket Academy, who’re on tour.

Within the collection, he describes his restoration as a “lengthy highway again”.

The documentary exhibits the previous Lancashire all-rounder in hospital shortly after the crash, the place he might be seen saying: “I need assistance, and I realise I’m not one of the best at asking for it. I must cease crying each two minutes.

“I’ve obtained to take a look at the positives, haven’t I? I’m nonetheless right here, I’ve obtained one other probability, I’ve obtained to go at it. I’m seeing that as how it’s, a second go.

“I’m actually wanting ahead to seeing the lads once more and being round them, I actually am.”

Talking about shifting previous the accident, Flintoff added: “As a lot as I wish to exit and do issues … I’ve simply not been capable of.”

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The star goes on to say that he believes the crash has modified him perpetually. When requested if he’s feeling higher, he replies: “Probably not, I’m undecided I ever will once more to be sincere. I’m higher than I used to be.

“I don’t know what utterly higher is. I’m what I’m now, I’m completely different to what I used to be, that’s one thing I’ll should take care of for the remainder of my life. Higher, no, completely different.”

Within the episode, Flintoff’s former Lancashire teammate Kyle Hogg, who helps to teach the workforce, might be seen telling the gamers about his crash, and that their journey to India can be postponed.

Hogg says: “He simply wants a little bit of area in the meanwhile. After they began, Fred was there for everybody within the room, that is genuinely the time that you just lads are there for him.”

In a bit to digicam, he provides: “Fred’s accident is absolutely dangerous, he’s going to want quite a lot of restoration time, he’s fairly fortunate that he’s managed to get by it alive.”

Because the crash, Flintoff has agreed to a monetary settlement with the company’s industrial department, BBC Studios, price £9m.

US presidential hopeful Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her 2024 vice presidential operating mate.

The Democratic Occasion candidate confirmed earlier experiences in a put up on X, saying: “I’m proud to announce that I’ve requested @Tim_Walz to be my operating mate.

“As a governor, a coach, a trainer, and a veteran, he is delivered for working households like his.

“It is nice to have him on the workforce.”

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Mr Walz is a former trainer and member of the US Military Nationwide Guard and in selecting him, she is popping to a Midwestern governor, army veteran and union supporter who helped enact an bold Democratic agenda for his state.

He mentioned it was the “honour of a lifetime” to hitch the marketing campaign.

“It jogs my memory a little bit of the primary day of faculty,” he wrote on X.

The information has been praised by former president Barack Obama, who described how “Tim’s signature is his skill to speak like a human being and deal with everybody with decency and respect”.

Posting an announcement from himself and former first girl Michelle, he wrote: “Like Vice President Harris, Gov. Walz believes that authorities works to serve us. Not simply a few of us, however all of us. That’s what will make him an excellent higher vp, prepared on day one. Michelle and I could not be happier for Tim and Gwen, their household, and our nation.”

Essentially the most progressive VP ever?

Ms Harris, the primary black lady and particular person of South Asian descent to guide a serious occasion ticket, initially thought of practically a dozen candidates earlier than zeroing in on a handful of significant contenders – all of whom have been white males.

In touchdown on Mr Walz, she sided with a low-key companion who has confirmed himself as a champion for Democratic causes.

Mr Walz has been described as having the “most progressive report” of any of Ms Harris’s potential operating mate picks.

Amongst his accomplishments are guaranteeing tuition-free meals at taking part state universities, enshrining abortion rights into state legislation, banning conversion remedy and offering protections for gender-affirming healthcare.

He additionally oversaw sweeping protections for abortion rights and beneficiant support to households and signed into legislation the so-called Taylor Swift invoice, prompted by the frustration a legislator felt at not having the ability to purchase tickets to Swift’s 2023 live performance in Minneapolis.

When requested final week if his liberal report might be a possible danger for the ticket, Mr Walz jokingly replied: “What a monster! Children are consuming and having full bellies to allow them to go study. Girls are making their very own healthcare selections.”

Though he initially backed President Joe Biden to proceed his marketing campaign, Mr Walz has been a robust public advocate for Ms Harris in her marketing campaign towards Donald Trump and JD Vance, labelling the Republicans as “simply bizarre” in an interview final month – an insult that was embraced by the Harris camp.

Shoring up the Midwest

His choice signifies Ms Harris hopes to shore up her marketing campaign’s standing throughout the higher Midwest – a vital area in presidential politics that always serves as a buffer for Democratic Occasion candidates looking for the White Home.

Each Michigan and Wisconsin voted for Mr Trump in 2016, and whereas Mr Biden was capable of reclaim each states in 2020 – it was with a margin of two.78% and 0.63% respectively.

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Mr Trump has already indicated he’ll zero in on this area as he goals to return to the presidency in November.

President Biden received Minnesota by greater than seven factors in 2020, regardless of Mr Trump’s false claims that he received the state and may do it once more.

The state has already produced two vice presidents – Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale, the latter of whom supported Walz on his first 2006 marketing campaign for the Home of Representatives.

From small-town Nebraska to the White Home

Walz grew up in small-town Nebraska and was a social research trainer and soccer coach earlier than he acquired into politics. He additionally served 24 years within the US Military Nationwide Guard, rising to command sergeant main – one of many highest enlisted ranks within the army.

He received the primary of six phrases in Congress from a principally rural southern Minnesota district, and used the workplace to champion veterans points.

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He has typically served as a Biden-Harris surrogate, and has made more and more frequent appearances on nationwide tv.

They’ve included an interview on Fox Information that irritated Mr Trump a lot that he posted on Fact Social: “They make me combat battles I should not must combat.”

Barcelona beat Actual Madrid in New York thanks to 2 targets from their in-form ahead Pau Victor after a thunderstorm had triggered an hour delay early within the first half.

Hansi Flick’s aspect will take confidence from the win, having additionally overwhelmed Manchester Metropolis on penalties final week, whereas Madrid have misplaced each their opening video games in america (after a 1-0 defeat to AC Milan on Thursday).

The primary-half delay didn’t dampen the spirits of the 82,154 supporters on the MetLife Stadium, and so they chanted, “Sure we will” whereas taking shelter from the storm.

Victor put Barcelona forward shortly earlier than half-time after which doubled their lead after 54 minutes. Nico Paz pulled a aim again for Madrid with eight minutes to play.

Laia Cervello Herrero and Guillermo Rai analyse the important thing speaking factors…

Nico Paz finishes glorious week with a high quality aim

A younger Barcelona group imposed themselves towards Madrid, but it surely wasn’t all dangerous for Carlo Ancelotti’s aspect. In addition to 16-year-old defender Joan Martinez, one other participant who stood out was Paz, who changed Endrick within the second half.

The 19-year-old playmaker is likely one of the brightest abilities from Actual Madrid’s youth academy and he scored his aspect’s solely aim with a diving header.

“I noticed there was quite a lot of area on the far put up and I went for it,” Paz stated after the match.

After per week of lighting up Actual Madrid’s open coaching periods, this aim was a reward for his exhausting work. 

Paz has proven that he can management the group’s tempo, has nice method and, above all, is a hazard in entrance of aim. 

Regardless of not getting a lot enjoying time within the 2023-24 season, he performed an important half within the Champions League victory towards Napoli in November. Launched with the rating at 2-2, he scored his first aim in senior soccer to place Madrid in entrance earlier than Joselu sealed a 4-2 win.

The Madrid teaching employees imagine he could make the step as much as the primary group however members of the membership’s board doubt whether or not he can earn a beginning position of their midfield.

His future is unsure however his high quality is unquestionable.

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Does Pau Victor deserve a spot in Flick’s first group?

After three targets and two man-of-the-match shows towards Manchester Metropolis and Actual Madrid, the quick reply appears to be: sure.

Victor was Barcelona B’s high scorer final season with 18 targets, which made him the highest scorer in Spain’s third tier too. He’s utilizing this pre-season to attempt to persuade Flick that he can reproduce that kind on the highest degree.

His efficiency towards Madrid was glorious. He generated extra alternatives and fought for each ball. His explosiveness in direction of aim is one thing his team-mate Robert Lewandowski has been missing in pre-season. Nevertheless, not like Lewandowski, who has scored greater than 600 targets in his profession, Victor has the whole lot to show.

Victor performs each sport as if his life is dependent upon getting a constructive outcome for his group, and he’s having a big effect. He scored Barcelona’s first aim simply earlier than half-time with a header and in the beginning of the second half, added a second, turning the ball in from shut vary after a cross from the suitable. 

Victor, who was born roughly 15 kilometres from Camp Nou, pressured Thibaut Courtois into making a number of good saves. Within the 12 minutes earlier than the sport was stopped due to the storm, the one probability was a Victor header that Courtois did nicely to maintain out. Within the second half, a left-footed shot simply earlier than his second aim prompted one other robust save from Courtois.

“We’ll see what occurs with Pau Victor. Two video games, three targets, not dangerous. The door to the primary group is at all times open,” Flick stated in his press convention after the sport.

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Vinicius Junior is Madrid’s chief — as ordinary

Vinicius Jr didn’t play within the first match of the tour towards AC Milan and was not a starter on this weekend’s El Clasico — however he was nonetheless Actual Madrid’s chief.

The 24-year-old striker, who was a part of Brazil’s group at Copa America this summer time, got here on shortly after half-time towards Barcelona and was relentless in attacking the right-back Alex Valle, after which doing the identical to Valle’s alternative Hector Fort. 

If Madrid had acquired an equaliser, it might have been from Vinicius Jr’s slaloms down their left-hand aspect. He was stopped twice, first by Marc Casado after which by the goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen.

“Vinicius, Vinicius!” the MetLife crowd chanted enthusiastically as he warmed up on the sideline, and so they raised the noise a degree on his command.

Ancelotti was filled with reward for his affect when talking after the match.

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How have Barcelona improved since final season?

What has been most spectacular on this tour is how Barcelona’s younger gamers have managed the stress.

In opposition to Manchester Metropolis, there have been greater than 63,000 folks within the stands and stars Erling Haaland and Jack Grealish lining up for Pep Guardiola’s aspect.

In New Jersey, this was a Clasico — by no means only a ‘pleasant’ — and Vinicius Jr was concerned for Madrid. The stands had been filled with greater than 82,000 followers, however the clear Madrid majority made it really feel like an away sport for Barcelona.

Barcelona rejoice Pau Victor’s aim (Charly Triballeau/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)

Confronted with these circumstances, they didn’t shrink or disguise at any second.

“The key is that we’re actually having fun with enjoying soccer,” Casado, the 20-year-old midfielder, instructed the press a number of days in the past.

“It took me 10 minutes to acclimatise to the followers after which I didn’t even give it some thought,” Marc Bernal, the 17-year-old midfielder, stated after the win towards Madrid. 

Then there was Sergi Dominguez, the 19-year-old centre-back, who had some spectacular moments towards Vinicius Jr.

These guys simply don’t appear to really feel the stress on them. They press excessive, they win balls again shortly after shedding it and so they loved enjoying towards — and beating — Actual Madrid.

Let’s see if they’ll take these qualities into the common season.

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US media stories indicated Ms Harris had not determined her working mate till Tuesday morning.

Her marketing campaign vetted a couple of dozen folks over the previous two weeks.

Asserting the choice, Ms Harris shared particulars of Mr Walz’s background “each as a result of it is spectacular in its personal proper, and since you see in no unsure phrases the way it informs his document”.

“As a governor, a coach, a instructor, and a veteran, he is delivered for working households like his personal,” she wrote.

“We’re going to construct a terrific partnership. We begin out as underdogs however I consider collectively, we will win this election.”

In the course of the vetting course of, Mr Walz drew enthusiastic assist from pro-labour teams and his celebration’s progressive wing.

He additionally gained consideration together with his description of Mr Trump, Mr Vance and ‘Make America Nice Once more’ Republicans as “bizarre”.

That characterisation has since been adopted by a number of Democrats, together with Ms Harris. Mr Trump not too long ago responded, saying “they’re the bizarre ones”.

Trump’s marketing campaign slammed Mr Walz as a “West Coast wannabe” who “has spent his governorship attempting to reshape Minnesota” within the picture of a left-wing California.

“If Walz will not inform voters the reality, we’ll: similar to Kamala Harris, Tim Walz is a dangerously liberal extremist, and the Harris-Walz California dream is each American’s nightmare,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated.

A supply near the vetting course of informed CBS, the BBC’s US information accomplice, that Mr Walz was chosen for his expertise and document of accomplishment in an govt function. Different elements included a compelling biography, his capability to be a robust messenger in opposition to Trump and Mr Vance, and his robust rapport with the vice-president.

Fellow running-mate contenders in addition to exterior curiosity teams have rallied behind his choice.

Gun security teams hailed his evolution on the difficulty after the 2018 Parkland, Florida college capturing, whereas Voters of Tomorrow, a youth voter mobilisation group, stated it was “excited to battle for younger Individuals alongside the Harris-Walz Administration”.

President Joe Biden stated in an announcement that the 2 “would be the strongest defenders of our private freedoms and our democracy”.

“They’ll be sure that America continues to guide the world and play its function because the indispensable nation.”

As the present two-term governor of Minnesota, Mr Walz has overseen one of the productive legislative intervals in state historical past.

With unified management of the state legislature, Democrats have enshrined abortion rights, strengthened gun legal guidelines, created new paid household and sick go away insurance policies, and carried out a sequence of different progressive wish-list objects.

Republicans criticise him for his response to the Covid-19 pandemic and his sluggish deployment of the Nationwide Guard to take care of violence within the aftermath of George Floyd’s homicide in 2020.

Earlier than getting into the governor’s workplace, Mr Walz represented a Republican-leaning district within the US Congress for 12 years.

He received that seat in 2006 – the one Democrat to have received within the principally rural district over the previous three a long time.

Mr Walz is a local of rural Nebraska and the son of a college administrator and a stay-at-home mom.

He grew up farming and looking and served within the Military Nationwide Guard for twenty-four years after becoming a member of aged 17.

The younger Mr Walz additionally taught secondary college pupils – first for one 12 months in China, then in Nebraska.

His spouse, Gwen Whipple, a fellow instructor, drew him to her native Minnesota, the place he taught social research and geography and coached American soccer.

He has described his entry into politics as nearly unintended. He stated he volunteered for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential marketing campaign after being angered by an incident during which two of his pupils had been turned away from a George W Bush marketing campaign occasion.