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Hudu Abu Naja, 12- before and after starvation. Like thousands of children in Gaza, she suffered from severe malnutrition. In the last two months, organizations and doctors tried to evacuate her without success. This morning, Dr. Ahmed Al-Farra reported she has died reports
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Interesting read. Fair to assume that other regimes that are heavily involved in sportswashing will be doing the same as the Qataris. While I'm not a campaigning journalist, I suspect some my articles/posts will prevent me getting invites to races in Saudi, the UAE or Rwanda any time soon

Sad to see this news…

Here comes the sun! The solar energy revolution Podcast Episode · Today in Focus · 02/10/2025 · 28m

This is the most uplifting podcast I’ve listened to in a long time. Maybe the world is not totally f””””d in almost every way after all

‘War is a business’: the Colombian mercenaries at Sudan’s battlefront A soldier of fortune tells of lucrative contracts, the siege of El Fasher and training child fighters to ‘go and get killed’

Given recent events in cycling, this is worth a read on how the UAE is using Colombian mercenaries to fight a proxy war in Sudan having done the same in Yemen.

Lunch at an Occitanie service station. Beats the hell out of Membury or Michaelwood

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Monday musing… endurance athletes don’t tend to reach their best years until their late 20s. We might not even have reached peak Pogi yet

Cycling protests: Call off races early to deter disruption, says union boss Cutting short major road races such as the Tour de France is the way to drive away protesters, the professional cyclists' union's president says.

Just caught up on this… Hansen’s the kid in the park who takes his ball home because his team’s not winning. His suggestion to plug the on races to prevent protesters having a platform not only gives them what they want (no IPT racing) but stops everyone else racing too

Hope so, it's been a little underwhelming so far

maybe they're staying away as a protest against Kagame???

I've been saying that all week. A bit busier today but still far from the turnout expected

If I had any, PFP

Gianni Infantino’s Faustian pacts face biggest test as prospect of Israel ban moves closer Sport should not be used to normalise abnormal conduct and it’s no longer possible to dispute the idea that Israel shouldn’t currently be participating

Start your morning with this on sport and Israel. Reading it, it’s plain that Lappartient is on much the same trajectory as Infantino

But Rwanda looked like it would have crowds based on turnout for the national tour. Odd

Has everyone in Kigali gone on holiday? There’d be more fans at a stage of the Route d’Occitanie. Perhaps they’ve all been working and the weekend’s road races will be mobbed 🤞

But you won’t need to hunt down a utility bill Kenny

A Israeli academic asked his followers on X which sanction would really convince ordinary Israelis that they are isolated internationally.
"Expulsion from football tournaments" was the most popular answer, followed by "ending visa-free travel to Europe"

Wonder if he matched Kagame’s 99.18% of the vote?

Israel’s future in Uefa could come to a head before World Cup qualifiers Uefa could decide as early as next week whether to suspend Israel and its club teams from its competitions

While politicians procrastinate, sport and sports’ fans are taking a lead with cycling in the vanguard

Looks like the Rwandans like a time trial about as much as most of the rest of us

Cycling world heads for Rwanda under a cloud of controversy after Vuelta chaos First road world championships in Africa should be a moment of celebration – instead the sport is mired in controversy

“There are those who feel that a man more at home pondering handlebar width and aerodynamic sock length, and who garnered only four votes at the recent IOC presidency elections, may now be a little out of his depth.”

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I can watch MOTD from on the sofa rather than behind it tonight

Far-right activists and convicted criminals behind anti-refugee protests in Manchester and Stockport Image: SUTR Manchester protest against Britain First on Aug 1st Manchester Press Release Far-right activists and convicted criminals are behind the anti

Found this pod fascinating but you don’t have to dig too far to find a bit more detail on Wayne Bentley, who doesn’t seem to have been very straight when he said he was a Labour voter standuptoracism.org.uk/far-right-ac...

The UCI states that it and sport should be apolitical but has handed out gongs and championships to dictators and repressive regimes. I can't think of a single thing Lappartient has done to boost elite racing. His UCI presidency has essentially been a way to further his career rather than the sport

~ via Nick Lloyd ~

"Regarding #LaVuelta2025, this will be my only comment:

In 1936, Jewish organizations urged a boycott of the Berlin Olympics.

Only one country responded to that boycott, organizing a popular Olympics against the Nazi state's whitewashing instead.

That country was Spain."

Great news. Congrats

I’m not sceptical at all. I’m a journalist and the word genocide was in quotes as it was taken from the Spanish government statement. I should have made that clearer

Because I’ve quoted the word used by the Spanish government’s spokesperson

While unprecedented security measures are planned for the Vuelta’s final stage in Madrid the Spanish government is calling for Israeli sports teams including IPT to be barred from international sport in the same way Russian ones are for the “genocide” in Gaza