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Wind that tears off antennas and knocks down trees; rain that falls in torrents and Jonas Vingegaard, who in cannibal Galicia devours everything and wins all the stages that counted for the general classification, the last three, like last year when the freezing cold and snow, and makes O Gran Camiño transform once more in O Gran Jonas Vingegaard, as if between the magical Galicia of dark mountains and pilgrimages so religious that they seem pagan and the Dane who wins everything he runs, including the last two, a mystical-meteorological complicity stronger than any bond had been established. Journalists call the relationship love, Vingegaard’s love with a career that revives the legendary roots of cycling like no other.
Also the cyclist’s love for his job as a champion that forces him to always try to win, as it forces all the best of this extraordinary decade. The best from before, from up to only 20 years ago, those who set a single goal a year, said that the first races of the year were only useful for training with a bib. Those of today train as if they were competing in a race and they compete in each race as if it were the last of their lives, to the death. “I like to win,” says Vingegaard simply, three days of competition in 2024, three victories (the time trial on the first day does not count, since due to the wind it was held without goats, like a walk), and echoes another of the champions of the decade, Remco Evenepoel, who won the first race of the year, the Figueira classic in Portugal and the overall Volta al Algarve then, guided by Mikel Landa in his magnificent Soudal sherpa in the mountains at his years. Or Wout van Aert, who following winning a stage in the Algarve came second in the first big classic, on Saturday, the Het Volk, and first yesterday in the Kuurne. And they will say the same when the other three riders of the apotheosis debut, as they said regarding a group of rejoneadors in the past: Tadej Pogacar will do it next Saturday at the Strade Bianche; Primoz Roglic, on Sunday in Paris-Nice, and Mathieu van der Poel will do so on Saturday the 16th directly in Milan-San Remo. By then Vingegaard will have already competed in the Tirreno-Adriatico, his second season on the way to the Tour.
Some speak of cyclists without soul or moods, true war machines programmed to win without mercy, and so it seems to Vingegaard, who competed in the three stages he won, those that followed the paths of Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra, as if They were classics, he, a stage racing man who hasn’t run a one-day classic in two years. He won all three by attacking far away, when the road got steep, and when he left, no one might follow him, not even great climbers, not Egan Bernal revived, nor Richard Carapaz, who competed in the 2021 Tour head-to-head with the Dane. , nor the brilliant Lenny Martínez. The promising Jacetano Pablo Castrillo was fleeing on the way to Ribadavia on Saturday and when he saw the Dane approaching behind him he sprinted to catch his wheel when he overtook him, and was happy because he was able to withstand his excessive watts for a few kilometers .
“It has been tremendous,” said Vingegaard following winning a storm-shortened stage on Sunday at the top of Mount Aloia, where the San Xulián pilgrimage took place, and if there were no clouds from there they would have seen the Cíes Islands, Mount Santa Tecla in Guarda, already in Portugal, and the Miño making the border down there. But what they saw was the uncontrollable force of nature. “The trees were bending over the road, it seemed like they might fall on the asphalt at any moment, the wind was so strong,” said Vingegaard, one who knows well what wind is, and enjoys it, and on the roads of His Jutland, open to all storms, fought daily once morest the wind, and thus he became a climber and time trialist at the same time, because pedaling on the flat with the wind once morest you is harder than climbing the Tourmalet.
“Will you be back in 2025?” they ask journalists to Vingegaard, who since he arrived in Galicia on Wednesday, has not stopped repeating how much he likes the land, the people, the environment, the modern race. And Vingegaard smiles almost sweetly, as he never might with a machine, and he responds with good humor. “It might come back, of course, we will have to study it. But first I will study the weather forecasts carefully…”
2023-11-13 12:33:00
Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in the Hamas government, Yousef Abu Al-Rish, told Agence France-Presse on Monday that hospitals in the Gaza Governorate, north of the Strip, are out of service with a power outage due to a shortage of fuel.
Doctor Abu Al-Rish spoke of “the death of six premature babies and nine patients in intensive care” while confrontations were taking place between the Israeli army and the Palestinian “Hamas” movement in the northern Gaza Strip, where Israeli tanks were tightening the cordon around Gaza City and its hospitals in particular, accusing “Hamas” of being stationed there. .
But the death toll appeared to have risen, with the Hamas Ministry of Health announcing on Monday followingnoon that the death toll since Saturday had reached “27 patients in intensive care and 7 premature newborns due to a power outage.”
The situation is especially critical in Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital institution in the Gaza Strip.
Youssef Abu Al-Rish, who is in the hospital, which houses “regarding 20,000 displaced people,” told Agence France-Presse that the power outage was behind the deaths of the six children and nine patients.
On Saturday, the hospital announced that it had 39 premature babies and that nurses were resorting to “manual breathing massage” to keep them alive.
A doctor from the non-governmental organization Doctors Without Borders also indicated that there were 17 patients in intensive care in the hospital.
UNRWA
Thomas White, Director of the Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said on Monday that the humanitarian operation in Gaza will stop during the next 48 hours because fuel is not allowed to enter the Strip.
He also said in a tweet on the “X” platform that two water distribution contractors contracted with UNRWA stopped working this morning following they ran out of fuel. He explained that this would deprive 200,000 people of drinking water.
Earlier today, UNRWA had said that the exposure of an agency guesthouse in southern Gaza to Israeli raids yesterday was “the latest indication that there is no safe place in the Strip,” noting that the targeting was by the Israeli Navy.
UNRWA added in a statement published on its official website that “ignoring the protection of civilian infrastructure, including UN facilities, hospitals, schools and shelters, is evidence of the horror that civilians in Gaza experience daily.”
The international United Nations employees present in Rafah had left the building 90 minutes before the targeting.
UN buildings and facilities currently host approximately 780,000 displaced people, and the statement stressed that “they should be protected at all times.”
Jordan
Official media said on Monday that Jordanian King Abdullah rejects any plans for Israel to occupy parts of the Gaza Strip or establish security zones within the Strip.
In statements at the Royal Palace, the Jordanian king told senior politicians he met that there might be no “military or security solution” to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
He added that the Gaza Strip should not be separated by Israel from the rest of the Palestinian territories.
A United Airlines spokesman said on Monday that the company will not resume its flights to the Israeli city of Tel Aviv from Newark, New Jersey, on November 24.
The company apologized for the news regarding the resumption of service, which it attributed to an error on the part of its public relations agency.
The company added that its flights to Tel Aviv will remain suspended until conditions are suitable for its resumption.
To restart the generators, there is an urgent need for fuel, which is becoming increasingly scarce due to the “permeable blockade” imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip since the start of the war on October 7.
The 2.4 million residents of the Gaza Strip live under the threat of a complete power outage, with the Ministry of Communications’ generators also expected to stop working on Thursday.
Doctors posted scenes on the Internet showing them working by candlelight and flashlights, or only by cell phone lights, due to power outages in hospitals.
– At least 8,000 liters –
Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said on Sunday evening that he “offered to provide some fuel to the army to meet the urgent needs of Al-Shifa Hospital,” but “Hamas leadership prevents the hospital from receiving fuel.”
In night photos published by the Israeli army on Sunday evening on the “X” website, soldiers can be seen placing cans near a building.
Muhammad Abu Salamiya, director of Al-Shifa Hospital, told Agence France-Presse: “The (Israeli) army called me twice and said that fuel would be provided to the hospital at the Akila station, which is 500 meters away from the hospital… He initially informed me that he would provide 2,000 liters, then he backed down and said Only 300 liters, provided it does not reach Hamas.”
He added: “I told them, if you want to help, we need at least 8,000 liters to operate the main generators and save hundreds of sick and injured people. Then they refused and we do not know what the situation is… We appeal to provide fuel to save the hospital.”
Outside the hospitals, Abu Al-Rish spoke of “dozens of martyrs and hundreds of injured, and no one can reach them because of the shooting at ambulances.”
He added: “The situation is dangerous and we are receiving reports of women who were forced to give birth in the street or at home without midwives.”
For several days, the Israeli army has said that it has opened safe corridors to allow displaced people to leave hospitals.
In response, Abu Al-Rish said: “All patients and medical staff were evacuated and Al-Rantisi Hospital was completely emptied (Sunday) under the threat of gunfire from the army.”
Qatar
The Qatari Foreign Ministry condemned “in the strongest terms the Israeli occupation’s bombing of the headquarters of the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza.”
She stressed “the need for the international community to act urgently to hold Israel accountable for its repeated crimes.”
It called on “the occupation to stop providing flimsy justifications for targeting health facilities and civilian objects.”
44 soldiers were killed in Gaza
The Israeli army announced on Monday the killing of two additional soldiers in northern Gaza, bringing to 44 the total number of deaths among its ranks in the Palestinian Strip since October 7.
An army spokesman told Agence France-Presse that 44 soldiers were killed “inside Gaza during the war,” which began following an unprecedented Hamas attack inside Israel.
The war broke out following an unprecedented attack launched by Hamas inside Israeli territory. About 1,200 people were killed, most of them civilians, most of them on the first day.
In response, Israel launched an attack that it says aims to “eliminate” the Islamic movement. It has been bombing the Gaza Strip without stopping since then, leaving a catastrophic humanitarian situation.
On the Palestinian side, the war left 11,180 dead, most of them civilians, including 4,609 children, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.
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2023-11-08 10:41:00
American health authorities warned on Tuesday of a rise in syphilis infections among newborns, which has more than doubled what it was in ten years, a situation that reflects concern regarding the resurgence of sexually transmitted diseases in the country.
An infant becomes infected with syphilis when his mother has this bacterial infection and does not receive appropriate treatment. In a pregnant woman, syphilis may lead to miscarriage, the death of the newborn, or long-term complications for the infant, such as loss of vision or hearing, or even bone deformities.
In 2022, more than 3,700 children were born with syphilis in the United States, a number that was ten times greater than in 2012, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the main federal health agency in the United States.
This authority confirmed that 9 out of 10 infections might have been avoided if the women concerned had performed examinations and received timely treatments during pregnancy.
“The congenital syphilis crisis in the United States has reached catastrophic proportions,” CDC official Debra Horry said in a statement.
She added in a press conference, “The spread of sexually transmitted diseases is still on the rise in our country,” noting that syphilis infections are increasing “among different age groups, including women of reproductive age and their sexual partners.”
The CDC indicates that the risk of black, Native American, or Latin American children being born with the disease in 2021 was eight times higher than the risk associated with children with white mothers, a finding that the health agency attributes to “decades of social factors.” well-established conditions that have created additional obstacles to access to care for pregnant women.”
According to health authorities, the lack of testing and treatment is linked to a number of individual and organizational factors.
“Obstacles may include lack of health coverage, living in an environment without access to medical care or medicine related to women, difficulty accessing transportation, and “Linked to drug abuse, unstable housing, poverty and racism.”
The specialized agency called on health professionals to seize every opportunity to conduct examinations for pregnant women, including those who arrive through any emergency service, or those who are involved in programs related to drug abuse.
The agency also recommended starting treatment when a rapid test confirms that a pregnant woman has the disease, even if this result requires another test to confirm it.
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