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Demi Vollering a décroché son premier Tour d'Italie dimanche 7 juin à Saluzzo en renversant sa compatriote Anna van der Breggen lors d'une dernière étape magistrale. Après ses victoires dans le Tour de France en 2023 et dans la Vuelta en 2024 et 2025, la Néerlandaise de 29 ans complète sa trilogie dans les grands Tours en remportant le Giro avec 30 secondes d'avance sur l'Allemande Antonia Niedermaier et 1:37 sur Van der Breggen. Deuxième du général au matin de la 9e et dernière étape, la leader de l'équipe française FDJ-Suez a fait basculer la course ce dimanche en passant à l'offensive à plusieurs reprises et en prenant tous les risques, avec une bonne dose de tactique en plus. biznow.biz

MEXICO CITY, Mexico, June 7, 2026 – Iran’s Fifa World Cup 2026 football team have landed in Mexico amid an ongoing row over visas and access to the stadiums in the US where they are to play.

All three of Iran’s group games are in the US, but the players and support staff have been told they have to fly in and out of the country on match day.

Iran says 15 other officials and support staff have been denied visas altogether, which an official has described as political interference in sport in its worst form.

The World Cup, jointly hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico, begins on 11 June, with Iran securing their place by finishing top of their qualification group in March 2025, almost a year before the US and Israel began attacks on the country.

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This will be the first iteration of the World Cup to see a host nation receive the team of a country it is at war with.

The Iranian team landed in Tijuana early on Sunday morning local time. They will be based there after relocating the training base from the American city of Tucson, Arizona, in late May.

US officials said visas had been issued to all players and “necessary support staff” on Friday, 10 days before Iran’s opening fixture against New Zealand in Los Angeles on 15 June.

According to Iranian state-linked media, 15 officials including the football federation chief, his deputy, and a media director are among those denied entry to the US.

US officials said that Iran would not be allowed to “abuse this system to sneak terrorists into the United States under false pretences”, echoing comments US Secretary of State Marco Rubio made earlier in the week in which he said the Iranian delegation would not be allowed to include people with links to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps – a powerful branch of the Iranian armed forces.

Several players in the Iranian squad have completed mandatory military service with the group.

Iran’s embassy in Turkey accused the US of “politically biased interference in sport” by denying visas to a “large portion of the managerial and executive staff” and “technical advisers”.

Embassy officials also called on Fifa, football’s world governing body, to intervene on the visa row.

Iran are also due to play Belgium in California and Egypt in Seattle in their other two group games.

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Le milieu de terrain danois Christian Eriksen a été victime d’un nouvel épisode inquiétant ce dimanche lors d’une rencontre amicale face à l’Ukraine disputée à Odense.

À la 64e minute, le joueur de 34 ans s’est effondré sur la pelouse, provoquant une vive inquiétude sur le terrain et dans les tribunes. L’arbitre a rapidement interrompu la rencontre, qui a été temporairement arrêtée pendant une quinzaine de minutes.

Pris en charge immédiatement par le staff médical, Eriksen a pu reprendre ses esprits avant de se relever et de rejoindre l’ambulance par ses propres moyens. Le joueur, équipé d’un défibrillateur depuis son malaise survenu lors de l’Euro 2021, a une nouvelle fois suscité une grande émotion dans le monde du football.

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PARIS, France, June 7, 2026 – Alexander Zverev finally landed the Grand Slam title that threatened to elude him after overcoming Flavio Cobolli and his own nerves to win a tense French Open final in five sets.

The 29-year-old German secured his first, long-awaited major triumph with a 6-1 4-6 6-4 6-7 (5-7) 6-1 victory over 10th seed Cobolli on Sunday evening in Paris.

After losing his three previous Grand Slam finals, second seed Zverev became increasingly tight against an opponent playing in his first championship match.

That was in marked contrast to the start of the match, where Zverev raced through the first set and quickly reasserted his authority after Cobolli snatched the second.

But the stress levels increased for Zverev in a dramatic fourth set where he twice fell a break down, produced a series of costly double faults and needed electrolytes to fight off cramp.

Cobolli could not serve the fourth set out at 5-4 up and blew his first set point in the tie-break by framing a simple forehand volley, but recovered to force a decider.

Both men continued to show anxiety in a final set which veered between entertaining and excruciating to watch.

Zverev made slightly fewer errors to move a double break ahead at 3-0 and dragged himself over the line as Cobolli ran out of steam.

When Cobolli dumped a smash long on the second match point, Zverev instantly fell backwards onto the clay and sobbed into his hands.

World number three Zverev is the first man other than Jannik Sinner or Carlos Alcaraz to win a Grand Slam singles title since 2023.

The leading two players had swept the past nine majors between them, but Sinner’s early exit in Paris, and Alcaraz’s absence with injury, provided a golden opportunity for the rest of the field.

Zverev assumed the mantle as title favourite – and, despite the burden of expectation, has managed to deliver at long last.

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Le Maroc fera face à la Norvège tout à l’heure à 19h00 GMT. Ce match sonne comme une répétition générale pour les deux équipes. Avant le coup d’envoi, voici les compositions officielles des deux équipes.

Après un bilan de 3 victoires et un nul en quatre matchs, le Maroc s’offre un test grandeur nature pour se rassurer. La Norvège est aussi dans la même logique : s’imposer pour faire le plein de confiance.

Voici les compositions officielles des deux équipes.

Maroc

Bounou – Hakimi – Mazraoui – Bouaddi – Ounahi – Diaz – Saibari – Diop – Ezzalzouli – Riad – Aynaoui

Norvège

Ørjan – Vassbakk Ajer – Møller Wolfe – Sørloth – Berge – Odegaard – Aursnes – Heggem – Nusa – Ryerson

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