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Transgender women will no longer be allowed to compete in female track and field events regardless of their levels of testosterone, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said Thursday. SOUNDBITE
World Athletics lifts the ban on the Russian track and field federation for state-sponsored doping although its athletes remain barred from competition while Moscow's invasion of Ukraine continues. SOUNDBITE
A few days before the Spanish Grand Prix - which gave Scuderia Ferrari joys and sorrows - the Formula 1 World Championship is back on track for a truly unique race, the Monaco Grand Prix. Home appointment of Charles Leclerc, the race is the shortest of the season (260 km instead of the usual over 300) and the one in which overtaking is more difficult.Key qualification. The circuit is characterized by very few fast sections, an extremely narrow carriageway, ten right-hand and nine left-hand corners, some of which - Ste. Devote, Mirabeau, Rascasse and the 180 ° hairpin near the Fairmont Hotel - are part of the story. of Formula 1. It goes without saying that with these characteristics of the track, a good qualifying is essential in Monaco. Last year Charles managed to take pole position but was unable to take off due to a mechanical problem on the car following an accident on Saturday, while Carlos Sainz took second place on the first podium of his adventure with the Scuderia.On the track on Friday. As for the program, there is a big news: the first day of free practice will no longer be on Thursday - as per tradition - but, like all the other Grand Prix, on Friday. The first session will be at 2pm CET, the second at 5pm. Qualifying will take place on Saturday at 4pm, preceded at 1pm by the last free practice session, while the race will start at 3pm on Sunday. 78 laps of the 3,337-meter circuit, equal to 260,286 kilometers, are to be covered. There is only one DRS zone, on the main straight, which usually contributes little to encouraging overtaking.
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe lists sanctions applied to the Belarus Athletic Federation over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which "will take immediate effect and continue for the foreseeable future". SOUNDBITE
Paris, Oct 1 (EFE).- (Camera: Antonio Torres) AS Monaco, the club that produced generational domestic talents like Kylian Mbappé and Thierry Henry, have shifted philosophy and are now eying Latin America as the team looks to produce players who can meet the increasingly physical demands of modern soccer.Monaco’s youth system has also produced the likes of Emmanuel Petit and David Trezeguet, who were part of the French team that won the 1998 FIFA World Cup, as well as fielding global stars such as Colombia’s Radamel Falcao and James Rodríguez, Liberian George Weah and German Juergen Kinsmann.“France is itself a great source of talent, but we also have it in Spain and Portugal, which is an interesting market,” Monaco’s vice president Oleg Petrov told Efe.“We have it in Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium and now also in Brazil,” he added.Brazil, which exports more players than any other country, is the starting point of Monaco’s new approach to scouting in Latin America.“We want to expand from there to other Latin American countries, where there is incredible talent. The idea is to train players and make big sales,” Petrov said.He is the right-hand of Russian tycoon Dmitry Rybolovlev, who acquired Monaco in 2011, when the club was on the verge of relegation to the third division.Following a period of growth that saw the club make large investments to sign Falcao (43 million euros), James (45 million) and Joao Moutinho (25 million), the club has recently turned back to training and selling players.The club has had a positive sale-purchase balance of nearly a billion euro since the 2011-2012 season.That was possible thanks to major deals, such as the sales of Bernardo Silva and Benjamin Mendy to Manchester City for 50 and 57.5 million euros, respectively; Kylian Mbappé to Paris Saint-Germain 180 million; and Thomas Lemar to Atletico Madrid for 72 million.But as football becomes increasingly tactical and physical, the model of player that AS Monaco is looking to mould has changed.For the past year and a half, Englishman Paul Mitchell has implemented a range of major changes at L'Academy, considered one of the best training centers in France.“Everything that fell under performance we looked at, analysed or changed. We did a full review and we made changes in every major performance from a technical side,” Mitchell told Efe.Mitchell’s goal is to create an environment where young players can develop into physically strong athletes who can withstand the intensity of the type of teams that press high up the pitch.“We have to have an ambition to produce the best players. Development is a core part of our strategy,” Mitchell said.The hope is that soon Monaco will be regularly producing young players who have the talent of stars in years gone by.“It would be nice to receive another Kyllian Mbappe or Thierry Henry into the group in the next years. I think that has to be our ambition,” he said.FOOTAGE AND SOUNDBITES FROM THE SPORTS DIRECTOR OF AS MONACO, PAUL MITCHELL
La Turbie (France), Sep 29 (EFE) .- (Camera: Antonio Torres del Cerro) Paul Mitchell, 40, is the man who designs the sporting course of AS Monaco, rival of Real Sociedad this Thursday in the Europa League. FOOTAGE AND SOUNDBITES FROM THE SPORTS DIRECTOR OF AS MONACO, PAUL MITCHELL, BEFORE THE MATCH AGAINST THE REAL SOCIEDAD
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