Real Madrid are not giving up the fight for the Spanish football championship even following the last-minute defeat in the Clasico once morest FC Barcelona. “The gap is bigger than before and it’s even more difficult, but we’ll do our best until the last game,” said Real coach Carlo Ancelotti following the unfortunate 1-2 (1-1) at the Catalans on Sunday evening. “We didn’t deserve the defeat, to be honest.”
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March 20, 2023
Bayern under pressure before hit against BVB: “Have to win”
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
In Dortmund, before the upcoming hit once morest soccer series champions Bayern Munich, people are already dreaming of taking off their lederhosen. The 6-1 Schützenfest once morest Cologne on Saturday lifted BVB to first place, past the stumbling Bayern, who had a heavy stomach following the 2-1 draw at Leverkusen on Sunday. “We definitely have to win, otherwise it will be difficult to win the championship,” warned coach Julian Nagelsmann with regard to the cracker on April 1st.
Sports director Hasan Salihamidzic was beside himself. “It wasn’t what Bayern Munich means,” he complained. “We missed everything. We let ourselves be overwhelmed by a team that was still playing on Thursday.” Salihamidzic found the reason for the defeat in the attitude: “I’ve rarely experienced so little drive, so little mentality, so little duel, so little assertiveness.”
The starting position for the “banger game” once morest BVB, said captain Thomas Müller at DAZN, “of course we imagined it differently, that’s logical”. Against Leverkusen, his team “unfortunately showed little of what made us strong in the last few games,” criticized Müller: “We have to ask ourselves a few questions.” Kimmich said: “I don’t see anything positive in the game today.”
The most recent development can only be good for the neutral observer, for the first time in years there is a real top duel, the throne of the sole ruler is shaking. This fuels the hope for BVB captain Marco Reus that his team in Munich will not go down without a chance following sometimes crushing defeats in the last eight league duels with a shameful goal difference of 6:33: “In two weeks we have a really great game before the Chest. Hopefully we’ll be ready.” Defender Marius Wolf put it less diplomatically: “We know what’s at stake following the international break. We’ll go to Munich to win there.”
Oliver Glasner would love to win once more. The coach was without a win for six competitive games in a row following the 2-0 loss at Union Berlin on Sunday. After the end of the Champions League at SSC Napoli, a crisis is also looming in the league. “You might also play 0-0, but we don’t,” said the Upper Austrian tight-lipped regarding his team’s poor performance and left the press conference room following just a few statements. “We should have gotten three more.”
In addition to the current sporting misery, there were recently reports of differences of opinion between Glasner and sports director Markus Krösche. Glasner rejected this before the game: “The club made me an offer to extend my contract. He wouldn’t do it if it didn’t fit between Markus and me. I wouldn’t think regarding it either. If I extend, then Markus is a Reason for that because we have the same vision with Eintracht.”
Caroline Garcia and Elena Rybakina are the two Top 10 players who are climbing the WTA ranking published on Monday, while Ons Jabeur and Maria Sakkari are falling. Also note the return of Océane Dodin to the Top 100.
Four changes are to be noted in the WTA Top 10 at the end of the first WTA 1000 of the season, in Indian Wells. Iga Swiatek, even if she was beaten in the semi-finals when she was defending champion, maintains a good lead of 3235 points over Aryna Sabalenka, finalist in California. The gap might narrow once more in two weeks following the Miami tournament, where Swiatek will once more defend his title and the 1000 points that go with it, while the Belarusian will have no points to defend. Jessica Pegula retains her place on the podium, but it is now Caroline Garcia who follows her, and no longer Ons Jabeur. The Frenchwoman has spent one lap more than the Tunisian in Indian Wells and this allows her to gain a place, to equal her best career ranking. In Miami, Garcia will have no points to defend, while Jabeur will have 110 and Pegula 380. The Lyonnaise might therefore be on the podium in the event of a very big result.
Rybakina et Sakkari se croisent
The other main change in this Top 10 is the arrival of Elena Rybakina in 7th place in the world, to the detriment of Maria Sakkari, eliminated in the semi-finals when she was in the final last year, and who takes 10th place. occupied until then by the Kazakh. Rybakina, winner of the tournament on Sunday, achieved the best ranking of her career, at 23 years old. She would even be world No. 3 if her victory at Wimbledon last year had brought her points. If Caroline Garcia is the French n°1, the other two tricolors of the Top 100 are much further. Alizé Cornet is 66th, while Océane Dodin returns to the Top 100 for the first time since October, thanks to her final at the ITF tournament in Trnava. Here she is now 93rd.
TENNIS / WTA RANKING
Ranking as of Monday, March 20, 2023
1- Iga Swiatek (POL) 9 975 points
2- Aryna Sabalenka (BIE) 6 740
3- Jessica Pegula (USA) 5,605
4- Caroline Garcia (FRA) 4,990 (+1)
5- Ounces of Jabeur (TUN) 4 976 (-1)
6- Coco Gauff (USA) 4 401
7- Elena Rybakina (KAZ) 3 720 (+3)
8- Daria Kasatkina (RUS) 3,375
9- Belinda Bencic (SUI) 3 360
10- Maria Sakkari (GRE) 3 191 (-3)
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66- Alizé Cornet (FRA) 868 (+2)
93- Océane Dodin (FRA) 709 (+9)
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American actor Michael J. Fox donates $600,000 to a Caen company
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Suffering from Parkinson’s disease, Michael J. Fox, best known for the film “Back to the Future”, made a large donation to a French company located in Caen.
The company Lys Thérapeutics has 2 sites in France: one in Lyon and the other within Cyceron, in Caen (capital of the Calvados). Specialized in research on neurodegenerative diseasesthe start-up, also works on stroke (with Inserm) and multiple sclerosis.
$600,000 to help research on neurodegenerative or neurovascular diseases
It is with his foundation that bears his name that comedian Michael J. Fox just signed a check for $600,000 to help research on neurodegenerative or neurovascular diseases. With this sum, the laboratory will finance preclinical research on the monoclonal antibody it is developing and thus pave the way for a clinical trial in the Parkinson disease.
A clinical trial in Parkinson’s disease
President of Lys Therapeutics for 2 years, Manuel Blanc, expressed himself in a press release: “Michael J. Fox’s help will allow us to significantly accelerate our preclinical and clinical developments, and expand our presence in the United States in addition to Europe“.
Parkinson’s sucks, but I’ve had a great life, so thank you for that (Michael J. Fox)
A l’occasion du ‘South by Southwest Film Festival’ (festival de musique and of movie theater), Michael J. Fox (61) spoke of his illness which has plagued him for more than 30 years: “Pity is a mild form of abuse. I can feel sorry for myself, but I don’t have time for that. Parkinson’s sucks, but I’ve had a great life, so thanks for that“, launched the actor.
A documentary on the life of Michael J. Fox
A documentary (Still: Michael J. Fox Movie ‘, editor’s note) will focus for the first time on the personal history of the actor and will retrace his fight once morest Parkinson’s disease, which he has suffered from since the age of 29. years. This film will soon be broadcast on Apple tv+ France.