Deportes

The avalanche that yesterday trapped ten members of an expedition led by the well-known British-Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja on Broad Peak, the twelfth highest mountain in the world, at 8,051 meters, in Pakistan, has shocked the mountaineering world. Rescue teams recovered this morning “the bodies of Nadhira Ahmed Abdullah Al Harthy, from Oman, and Pur Bahaur Gurung, from Nepal,” according to the president of the Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP), Major General Irfan Arshad, who confirmed this to Efe. The leg of a third person was also found, he added. Arshad indicated that search efforts will continue tomorrow, Saturday.

If Italy became in the collective imagination the country of great defenders, tough but elegant, capable of winning matches with intelligence even before strength, the footballer who best embodied that ideal was Franco Baresi. The legendary captain of Milan and the Italian national team died at 66, after a long illness that had progressively deteriorated his health in recent years. With him disappears one of the best defenders of all time and one of the great symbols of Italian sport.

Barcelona received this Thursday at the preseason stage in Birmingham the notification of the complaint filed by Atlético de Madrid to FIFA and the Federation (RFEF) because they consider that the blaugrana club tried to sign Julián Álvarez by forcing a departure for an amount lower than his release clause of 500 million euros following inappropriate procedures with a player under contract until 2030. The complaint was formalized on June 30 and Barcelona received the notification this Thursday through the RFEF, responsible for channeling this type of claims. The blaugrana club will study the response deadlines and will present allegations in the coming days.

Klassmark, a Catalan company organizing outdoor sports events, including The Traka, reached an agreement with RPM, a sports events company of the Godó Group, to join forces in the development of the events they carry out, sensitive to environmental respect. Klassmark’s motto, ‘No nature no future’, has always represented an organization focused on enhancing natural spaces. The Traka is a world reference in gravel cycling.

“UEFA and its federations will not participate in competitions organized by FIFA. We unanimously and unequivocally reject the plan to transfer the rights of the World Cup and other FIFA competitions to private investors.” UEFA and its 55 associations made this strong decision this afternoon in a telematic meeting. A real challenge to try to stop the plans of FIFA president Gianni Infantino to privatize part of FIFA by creating a corporate subsidiary to commercialize its competitions. From the very beginning, UEFA has opposed the plan and describes it as “crossing a red line.”

The controversial FIFA project involving selling shares of the World Cup, which implies privatizing part of the tournament, has caused great rejection among the majority of football stakeholders. The president of the football entity, Gianni Infantino, remained silent in the face of numerous criticisms until he finally defended himself by stating that it is “a proposal and not an obligation.”

The Community of Madrid filed a complaint this Wednesday with the National Police Corps against Rayo Vallecano for preventing access to the Vallecas Stadium to the personnel who were to begin urgent maintenance work.

Gianni Infantino (56) moves in the shadows.

Karim Adeyemi (Munich, 2002) is already starting to feel like an FC Barcelona player. The 24-year-old German forward speaks to La Vanguardia at St George’s Park one week after signing a five-year contract with the blaugrana club. Charismatic and quiet, he faces his first days as a blaugrana with the excitement of someone who wants to make the most of an opportunity that, to a large extent, bears the mark of Hansi Flick. His new teammates highlight his quick adaptation to the locker room and he, far from hiding behind clichés, presents himself as a player with a strong personality, creative, proud of his roots, and with a very particular way of understanding football and life. Adeyemi, who insists he can play in all three attacking positions, does not hesitate to define Barça as “the greatest club in the world” and promises to repay the trust placed in him on the pitch.

Every return of the Tour de France to Orcières-Merlette brings back memories of that afternoon in 1971 when Luis Ocaña made history. For many, that remains the most important feat in modern cycling. Due to the magnitude of the stage, the differences generated, and above all, the defeated rivals, fundamentally the insurmountable Eddie Merckx. Ocaña broke away when there was still an eternity ahead (60 km) and the minutes fell one after another until the definitive 8m40s. Not even when they hinted from the car that it was enough to wear yellow did he give up continuing to increase his lead. The Spanish champion, a genius with his own ghosts, showed that even the most dominant rider could be defeated, even humiliated. “Luis Ocaña killed us all today, like El Cordobés kills his bulls,” Eddy Merckx acknowledged after the stage, in a phrase reported the next day by La Vanguardia and which perhaps remains the best way to explain what happened in Orcières-Merlette. “A magnificent feat, which Spanish cycling greatly needed,” said Federico Martín Bahamontes for this newspaper that same day.