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We onderbreken heel eventjes de Oranjekoorts voor andersoortige sportpret, dit wegens het besluit van het IOC om de OLUMPISCHE WINTERSPELEN van 2030 naar FRIESLAND te halen. Officieel is Frankrijk aangewezen als gastland en gebeurt het langlaufen, rodelen, freestyle-snowboarden en alle andere dingen waar Nederland slecht in is in de Alpen. Een probleem echter: die rare Fransen hebben helemaal geen schaatshal. Dus wat doe je dan als organisator? Schaatsen schrappen van het programma want ja het zijn toch alleen de Nederlanders die het serieus nemen Op zoek naar alternatieve locaties, waarna je uiteraard al snel uitkomt bij onze THIALF. Hartstikke leuk, maar we willen nu natuurlijk wel een Nederlandse vinger in de pap als het om de aankleding gaat. In het officiële logo van Alpes & Fryslân 2030 moet het achterwerk van Jutta Leerdam verwerkt worden. Vinden we leuk, zie maar hoe je het regelt. Bij de openingsceremonie geen gedoe met fetisj-smurfen en laatste avondmalen dit keer. Wij eisen een hoofdrol voor de koningin van Fryslân, Lutz Jacobi Doutzen Kroes. De muziek wordt verzorgd door Dries Roelvink en Orgel Joke. Als grote finale wordt het Olympische vuur aangestoken door een brandende pijl van Raymond van Barneveld. Nu al zin in.
The legendary music executive signed everyone from Patti Smith to Barry Manilow and changed the industry forever
Clive Davis: music industry executive who signed Whitney Houston and Bruce Springsteen dies aged 94
Clive Davis: a life in pictures from Diana Ross to Aretha Franklin
Clive Davis always claimed that his life in the music business was really kickstarted when he chose to attend the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival: it was there he saw Janis Joplin and her band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and immediately bought their contract for $200,000, the first really high-profile signing of his career. But Davis was an unlikely fit at the most high-profile event of the Summer of Love: he was a Harvard-educated lawyer who had been “shocked” when a restructuring of Columbia Records saw him promoted from general counsel to the company’s president. He was sharp enough to spot which way the pop cultural wind was blowing – “a revolution in culture and philosophy”, he later recalled, “the Haight-Ashbury scene, with love peace and flowers” – but he was no one’s idea of a hippie. Amid a sea of paisley, batik, love beads and bells David turned up to the festival clad in “khaki pants and a tennis sweater”.
It was an image he would often recall for comic effect – “I was the costumed freak surrounded by everyone with flowers in their hair” – but there was something rather telling about it too: Davis’s skill as what used to be called a record man lay in his ability to balance the progressive with the traditional. He turned one wing of Columbia into something of a home for artists associated with the burgeoning counterculture, swiftly signing Santana, Blood Sweat and Tears, the Electric Flag and the wonderful psychedelic soul band the Chambers Brothers. But he never lost sight of the other side of the company, which dealt lucratively in soundtracks and easy listening and was home to Barbra Streisand and Tony Bennett: at one juncture, he found himself simultaneously attempting to renegotiate the contracts of Bob Dylan and Andy Williams. When he founded Arista Records in 1974, he did exactly the same thing: it was a label that provided a home for both Patti Smith and Barry Manilow.
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The former Yugoslavia and Atlético Madrid striker Rade Bogdanovic has sparked controversy on Serbian TV after saying that “Black players lack concentration beyond 60 to 80 minutes” during the Belgium v Iran World Cup match.
Bogdanovic, 56, made the comment on a World Cup programme aired by Serbia’s public broadcaster (RTS) late on Sunday night while discussing the 66th-minute red card shown to the Belgium defender Nathan Ngoy.
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Keir Starmer has finally bowed to intense pressure to stand down as British prime minister as he conceded that he was no longer the right man to lead the country, leaving Andy Burnham all but certain to succeed him.
In an extraordinary day at Westminster, Starmer announced a timetable for his departure after months of growing discontent among Labour MPs and cabinet ministers, many unnerved by the threat from Reform UK before the next general election.
Burnham will begin to set out his likely policies next week with a series of speeches to demonstrate a big symbolic shift from Starmer’s government, starting with the economy and devolution.
He is considering appointing Ed Miliband as chancellor in order to challenge Treasury orthodoxy but has not yet made a final decision. Sources said Burnham was aware of the potential risks with business and the unions opposed to the move, but could be prepared to make the argument.
Shabana Mahmood is expected to stay at the Home Office after the former Greater Manchester mayor praised the home secretary for “facing up” to the big issues on immigration during the byelection campaign.
Wes Streeting could be appointed to one of the top cabinet jobs, but did “not come with any leverage” to discussions, with campaign sources rejecting his claims he had the numbers to run. Others have argued for him to be appointed chancellor to reassure the markets.
Starmer loyalists are still seeking a candidate who could potentially stand against Burnham – with it depending on whether Miliband was chancellor. Darren Jones has been touted as a possibility, and while sources said he was not organising a run, they stopped short of a categorical denial.
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Evening everyone and welcome to the Kylian Mbappé show. He’s the captain of France, he’s the biggest name in a team full of stars, in fact the biggest name in this World Cup among all those who have yet to turn 38. He needs four more goals to share the all-time World Cup record which Lionel Messi has just set. And Mbappé is already the GOAT in terms of goals per match, among those who have scored at more than one World Cup. He has 14 from 15, just pipping Pelé, who has 12 from 14, staying well clear of Messi, who has 18 from 28, and possibly enraging Cristiano Ronaldo, who has only eight from 23.
Tonight, in Philadelphia, Mbappé will win his 100th cap. The stage is set, but it still takes two to tango. Can Iraq emulate Iran by pulling off a triumphant 0-0? They have never won a point at a World Cup, so it will be a surprise if they manage it against a team as good as France. But they love a challenge and don’t mind a bit of hard work: it took them 21 qualifiers to get here, more than any other nation. And in the Australian Graham Arnold, they have a manager so prone to positive thinking that when others talk of a group of death, he sees only a “group of excitement”.
Continue reading...French media outlet distanced itself from criticism of Doku’s plan to fly back from World Cup for birth of first child
The French media outlet L’Équipe has apologised to the Belgian footballer Jérémy Doku after he was criticised by one of its pundits for saying he would duck out of the World Cup to be present at the birth of his first child.
News of the apology came as the Belgian football federation said Doku had made it back to London in time to be with his wife Shireen, who gave birth to a boy called Praise on Monday.
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LAUSANNE (ANP) - Het uitvoerend comité van het IOC heeft ijsstadion Thialf in Heerenveen goedgekeurd als schaatslocatie voor de Olympische Winterspelen van 2030, die plaatsvinden in de Franse Alpen. Dat heeft de olympische organisatie maandag bekendgemaakt.
De goedkeuring betekent nog niet de definitieve toewijzing van het olympische schaatstoernooi aan Heerenveen. De definitieve goedkeuring van de sportlocaties voor de Spelen van 2030 volgt volgens het IOC op "een latere datum".
"Thialf is een faciliteit van wereldklasse met sterke steun van het publiek", schrijft het IOC op de eigen site. Thialf is in beeld gekomen bij de Franse organisatie van de Spelen omdat er in Frankrijk geen geschikte ijsbaan is.
IJscluster
De definitieve toewijzing van het schaatstoernooi aan Thialf zou betekenen dat voor het eerst in de geschiedenis een deel van de Winterspelen in Nederland plaatsvindt. Ook zouden er voor het eerst in 102 jaar olympische sportwedstrijden worden bedreven op Nederlandse bodem.
Het IOC heeft naast het schaatstoernooi in Thialf ook de vorming van een 'ijscluster' in Lyon goedgekeurd. In die stad zullen de overige ijssporten, curling, kunstschaatsen, ijshockey en shorttrack, plaatsvinden. Courchevel en Val d'Isère hebben de wedstrijden in het alpineskiën toegewezen gekregen.