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- ‘I’m relieved we’ve got a second chance’: Edendork boss’ big admission ahead of Tyrone SFC Final replay
Guadiana race links Algarve and Spain across international bridge
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Rede Expressos launches €2.50 bus ticket campaign
Rede Expressos has launched a new campaign offering 100,000 bus tickets for just €2.50, in a bid to encourage more people to use public transport as fuel and motoring costs
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- Paris Saint-Germain sparkle on the pitch while the city of light burns around them | Barney Ronay
Paris Saint-Germain sparkle on the pitch while the city of light burns around them | Barney Ronay
PSG, pet project of the state of Qatar, expresses the dualism of the city, a place of deprivation where the centre is perfect
PASSION!
GOOOOAL!
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© Photograph: Mohammed Badra/EPA

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MotoGP ticket buyers get early access to Portugal F1 tickets
Motorsport fans heading to this year’s MotoGP Portuguese Grand Prix in Portimão are being offered an early shot at tickets for the return of Formula 1 next summer. The Algarve
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Dominican Baseman Junior Caminero Honored with the Juan Marichal Award
The day before receiving the award, Caminero hit a home run and drove in two runs in his team’s 7-3 victory.
On Tuesday, Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Junior Caminero was honored with the Juan Marichal Award, an accolade given annually to the best Dominican player in Major League Baseball.
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Juan Marichal announced the award himself at the Ministry of Sports, where he highlighted the outstanding season completed by the 23-year-old. Marichal praised Caminero’s performance and asserted that he is destined to become “one of the great figures” of Dominican baseball.
The award comes at a time of great prominence for the third baseman, who played a decisive role in the Tampa Bay Rays’ qualification for the World Series.
The day before receiving the award, Caminero hit a home run and drove in two runs in his team’s 7-3 victory over the Cleveland Guardians, a result that secured their place in the Fall Classic.
Junior Caminero's trip around the bases ⚡ pic.twitter.com/SiANRvSDR6
— MLB (@MLB) October 20, 2026
During the regular season, the Dominican slugger achieved 42 home runs and 101 RBIs, which placed him among the American League’s offensive leaders. In addition to his power at the plate, Caminero finished the season with a .276 batting average, 170 hits, 100 runs scored, and 25 doubles.
In the Juan Marichal Award voting, he received overwhelming support, garnering 82 of the 100 first-place votes for a total of 558 points.
The Tampa Bay Rays player beat out pitcher Cristopher Sanchez of the Philadelphia Phillies and shortstop Elly De La Cruz of the Cincinnati Reds, who finished second and third, respectively.
#FromTheSouth News Bits | Social, trade union, and peasant organizations across the eastern Dominican Republic took to the streets of Higüey for a massive regional march with the slogan "the east rises: we can stand no more abuses." pic.twitter.com/e2TMhYTVgn
— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) October 14, 2026
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Benfica football academy ranked world’s best
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Longboard association demands answers after Portugal misses World Championship
The Portuguese Longboard Association (APL) has demanded explanations from the Portuguese Surfing Federation after Portugal failed to send a national team to this year’s ISA World Longboard Championship, reportedly because
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Future Olympic stars set sail in Vilamoura
Some of the world’s most promising young sailors will travel to Vilamoura this December for the 2026 Youth Sailing World Championships, an event often described as the “Mini Olympic Games”
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Nato increases Black Sea deployment amid escalating deadly Russian attacks
Mounting anxiety as Russia’s war on Ukraine reaches Nato’s borders with targeting of vessels transporting agricultural cargo
Nato is deploying additional military assets to the Black Sea amid the recent deadly escalation of Russian attacks on merchant shipping, as five more vessels were attacked on Tuesday.
Russia’s military said it struck three cargo vessels in Ukraine’s port of Reni and two other cargo vessels en route to Odesa.
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- European air fares could rise by as much as 20% in 2027, Ryanair boss predicts
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Conflict in Middle East is pushing jet fuel costs higher and many carriers are not hedged against such increases, Michael O’Leary says
Ryanair’s chief executive has predicted a record increase in European air fares next year, as airlines grapple with fuel bills pushed higher by the Middle East conflict.
Many carriers are not hedged against rising jet fuel costs, Michael O’Leary said, which he predicted would lead to airline bankruptcies and takeovers. He forecast these pressures would result in the price of plane tickets rising by as much as 20%.
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- Excessive wealth, extreme emissions – and ecocide: what I learned at Europe’s big superyacht show
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Who knew? Apparently everyone did, apart from me: you don’t wear shoes on a superyacht. Now, about to step on to my first teak deck at the Monaco Yacht Show, I’ve got to take my trainers off, and I’m having a sock panic. Have they got holes? Do they even match? Do they smell?
To be honest, I’ve come dressed all wrong for Europe’s big annual superyacht trade exhibition. The code for men seems to be crisp and tucked in, blazers and chinos, navy and white, sculpted hair and designer sunnies. (I went colourful, loose, casual). For women, it’s something like Riviera elegance. Everyone – whether they’re Italian, French, English, German, American, exhibitors, buyers, brokers, charterers – seems to know each other. The international superyacht community seems to be a close-knit one, and I’m not part of it. Yet.
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Patrick McClean takes plaudits as Derry City fans hit out at brother James’ mental health scoff
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La dieta di un pugile prima di salire sul ring
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Alle undici e venticinque di sabato mattina, in una palestra di Monza, Mohamed «Momo» Elmaghraby mangia bresaola e pane integrale. «Stamattina ho fatto già colazione e mi sono allenato», racconta. Più tardi lo aspetta una seconda seduta. Lo spuntino serve a recuperare e a prepararsi alla fatica successiva: il pane porta carboidrati, la bresaola proteine. Eppure, in questa preparazione, c’è più libertà del solito: «A ‘sto giro non è che devo perdere peso: devo metterne!». Il 21 novembre infatti affronterà Clemente Russo a Milano, nella quattordicesima edizione di The Art of Fighting (TAF). L’incontro prevede otto riprese e un limite concordato di novantatré chili: è un catchweight, cioè un peso pattuito per quella specifica sfida. Elmaghraby, che combatte abitualmente nei mediomassimi, deve quindi prepararsi a una taglia superiore.
«Quando sono in top forma sono un peso sugli ottantasei e ottantasette chili», per affrontare Russo racconta di doverne aggiungere sette, anche otto. Quindi può mangiare «senza dover dare troppo peso alla bilancia», con più calorie a disposizione per allenarsi.

Alla domanda sulle rinunce risponde: «Non sto rinunciando a niente», e fin lì, benissimo, ma la parte meno comoda è trasformare le rinunce a niente in peso utile: sette chili di muscoli in tre mesi sono ben altra impresa rispetto a sette chili di pancia, quelli saremmo capaci anche noi di metterli. Di solito le restrizioni alimentari per Momo riguardano dolci, bibite gassate, succhi e cibi salati: «Devo mangiare molto clean, per forza», dice, usando il lessico delle palestre per descrivere un’alimentazione più controllata e sull’alcol taglia corto: «Non apriamo quella porta, figurati!». Zero.
Nato in Egitto e arrivato a vivere in Italia a dodici anni, ha incontrato la boxe alla fine del 2015, dopo un’adolescenza difficile. Dal 2016 ha cominciato ad allenarsi seriamente e anche a tavola ha dovuto imparare. «Prima non guardavo cosa mangiavo e tantomeno capivo il valore nutrizionale» racconta, «non davo peso alle proteine», né agli altri nutrienti. Con lo sport ha iniziato «a informarmi sempre di più su cosa serve al corpo» e così mangiare abbastanza per sostenere gli allenamenti, recuperare e conservare forza è diventato parte del mestiere. Il repertorio dei desideri, intanto, resta ampio. Della cucina egiziana Elmaghraby cita l’anatra con il riso e il brodo, le zucchine e i peperoni ripieni. Poi «una cosa che mi piace tanto, l’hawawshi» una prelibatezza da provare una volta nella vita, difficile – ma non impossibile – da trovare anche a Milano: è in sostanza un panino ripieno di carne – molto, e squisitamente – speziata. La conversazione si sposta sul piacere di mangiarlo e sull’alito che lascia, sul quale concordiamo: piuttosto importante.

La carne occupa da tempo un posto centrale nell’immaginario del pugilato. Nel manuale “Athletics and Manly Sport” di John Boyle O’Reilly, nell’edizione del 1890, la colazione di chi si allena può comprendere costolette di montone, bistecca, pollo o pesce alla griglia. Seguono il riposo per digerire, il sacco e lo sparring, il combattimento di allenamento. Più di un secolo dopo, Laila Ali ricordava a Bon Appétit le bistecche e le patate del padre Muhammad Ali, peso massimo, mentre raccontava per sé avena, albumi e restrizioni per rientrare nel peso. La categoria cambia anche il menu.
Nella boxe, il peso registrato alla pesata può essere diverso da quello con cui si sale sul ring. È qui che entra in gioco il taglio del peso: perdere rapidamente alcuni chili per rientrare nel limite previsto, cercando poi di recuperarli prima dell’incontro. Quando il controllo si svolge il giorno precedente, fra la bilancia e il primo gong resta tempo per bere e mangiare. L’obiettivo è combattere in una categoria inferiore a quella corrispondente al proprio peso abituale, cercando un vantaggio fisico, ma non è un vantaggio garantito. A far scendere rapidamente la bilancia è soprattutto la perdita di acqua, non di grasso.
Contro Russo, Elmaghraby sta affrontando il problema opposto: aumentare di peso per prepararsi a un incontro con un limite superiore a quello abituale, di conseguenza le rinunce sono meno severe, gli allenamenti restano impegnativi: e fra una risposta e l’altra, della bresaola è rimasta ancora una fettina.
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