When the Pro Triathlon Union launched in July last year, the frisson of optimism soon gave way to an air of scepticism. With a board hastily assembled at a closed-shop triathletes’ meeting in Bahrain, it offered little to deliver cohesion in a disparate sport.
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Long-course professionals struggling to pay their rent were irked at being asked to fork out up to $600 for membership. It took a further blow when Jan Frodeno declared he was “no fan of unions” and then the PTU’s vice president, Dirk Bockel, sent an ill-advised tweet asking Lance Armstrong for support. Had the whole thing faded away quietly, few would’ve been surprised.
When I met Charles Adamo, the chief executive of the Pro Triathlon Organisation (PTO; note the switch from Union), it was the morning after golf’s Ryder Cup. The USA had triumphed 17-11, buoyed by the patriotic fervour of packed galleries in Minnesota. It was without the nails-to-the-quick final-day drama that has spoilt sports lovers for much of the past three decades, yet the unique allure of the biennial contest still captured imaginations on both sides of the pond. Adamo produced a newspaper with the headline: ‘The theatre of sport at its finest in the bear pit’. “This is what we need to create,” he said.
Championing new ventures doesn’t come naturally to journalists, however it didn’t take tweets from multiple Kona winners Dave Scott (“a fantastic competition”) or Chrissie Wellington (“très excited, bring on 2018!”) to convince this hack of the merits of The Collins Cup. If imitation is the greatest form of flattery, then the Ryder Cup has a devotee in the PTO every bit as passionate as the Americans hollering at Hazeltine. But where triathlon will move beyond golf is by including the rest of the world. And, thankfully, women.
New international team tri competition launched
The Collins Cup, named after Ironman founders John and Judy, is a three-way non-drafting competition: Europe versus USA versus the ‘Internationals.’ It’s akin to the Ryder Cup singles format with six men and six women from each region. Eight will be chosen from the new PTO world rankings plus four captain’s picks – which allows wriggle room to involve stars from the ITU’s World Triathlon Series. Set off at regular intervals, triathletes race head-to-head-to-head over a 3km swim, 120km bike course and 25km run. Bonus points are awarded for each 5min increment – so it doesn’t pay to milk the finish chute.
Turning long-distance triathlon into a spectator sport isn’t easy. In contrast, the real sagacity of The Collins Cup is how the intrigue builds throughout the day. Anyone who has watched the Ryder Cup scoreboard swing from red (USA) to blue (Europe) and back, will understand how it can command your attention in its vice-like grip. Moreover, the focus is on the team, so if Frodeno or Daniela Ryf disappear up the road, the contest isn’t over.
That said, golf is a behemoth compared to triathlon, built on a history of 19th-century mashies and niblicks, not neon Speedos in the 70s. Can a new competition with a complex format really thrive? Adamo points out that the Ryder Cup only prospered from 1985 when the USA started to lose, and that interest soared in Olympic basketball when the USSR inflicted Team USA’s first ever loss in Munich in 1972. His point is less about revelling in US misery, but more that the success of a tournament is driven – not just by its history – but by unashamed rivalry.
The triathlon calendar is already packed and the date (June looks favourite) will depend on which broadcaster – if any – bite. To help this, Wasserman, the world’s fourth largest sports media agency (for comparison, IMG are ranked 12th) with contracts worth $2.3billion, will act as business partners. It lends some serious financial clout.
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The PTO’s solution to ensuring a crowd is to make the pro race the showpiece of a long weekend where age-groupers race on Saturday and then join the celebrations on Sunday. For a venue, think a dedicated resort rather than busy city centre streets. It’s due to run annually from 2018, and for a sport that continually innovates, I believe this could be one of the best moves yet.
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The 40th birthday of Ironman was always going to be a special race, and so it proved with the Kona debut of Javier Gomez, course records broken, emotional stories of redemption and some heavyweights showdowns between the world’s greatest long-course athletes.
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Grabbing the headlines in the men’s elite event was Patrick Lange, who broke the Ali’i Drive finish line tape in 7:52:39 to become the Ironman World Champion for the second time. Following the German home was Belgium’s Bart Aernouts in second and David McNamee of Scotland, who ran in his way to third in 8:01:09.
Brit Joe Skipper would come home in seventh, while Javier Gomez was 11th on debut in Hawaii. Tim Don, after his horrific bike crash just over a year ago, crossed the line in 36th in tear-jerking scenes.
BRIT EXPECTIONS
Not since the multiple Ironman world champ Chrissie Wellington went toe-to-toe with Julie Dibens, Rachel Joyce and Leanda Cave in 2011 have British elite athletes received some much focus in Kona (head here for the women’s report featuring Lucy Charles).
In the men’s race, Scotland’s David McNamee was hoping to go even better than in 2017, when his third-placed finish was the best British male placing in Kona history. East Anglia’s Joe Skipper – second behind Jan Frodeno at Challenge Roth in 2016 – was also vying for his first top 10 finish in Hawaii, and there was the emotional appearance of Tim Don in the starting field, following a severe crash ahead of the 2017 edition of Hawaii.
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Elsewhere on the starting pontoon was the five-time ITU World Champion, Javier Gomez, making his Kona racing debut, the reigning champion Patrick Lange, former winner Sebastian Kienle, and a Jan Frodeno-shaped hole after the two-time Kona champ pulled out ahead of the race.
In relatively cool and calm conditions for Kona, the men’s event saw Aussie athlete Josh Amberger first out of the water, closely followed by France’s Denis Chevrot. Gomez came out in 5th after 47:46mins and David McNamee was in 13th, 1:52mins down after a time of 49:31mins. Don would exit Kailua Bay in 50:34, 20th pro man overall
Some big names were already 2-3mins in arrears, including the reigning champion Patrick Lange and 2014 winner Sebastian Kienle. The 2017 second-place finisher and uber-biker Lionel Sanders was a further 3mins back.
.@JoshAmberger is in the lead and nearing the swim exit. #IMWC
Tune in to catch all the action from the @rokasports Swim Course via NBC Sports (US) and https://t.co/DRAL10Rxpg (Global). pic.twitter.com/sSGEq4Of2g
— IRONMAN Triathlon (@IRONMANtri) October 13, 2018
Onto the bike, and the major early news was that Kienle had suffered a puncture and was riding with a replacement wheel. But the German star had moved up to 14th by halfway through the 180km bike leg, with the field being led by biking powerhouses Andrew Starykowicz (USA) and Australia’s Cameron Wurf. Gomez was in ninth, Lange tenth, while the Brits of McNamee, Skipper, Don and Will Clarke were riding in proximity to each other in around 20th place.
Approaching transition two and Wurf’s bike course record of 4:12:54 from 2017 was in jeopardy, and the Australian would once again enter the Hawaii record books after a 4:09:36 split.
#IMWC @cameronwurf has come off the bike with the lead and established a new course record of 4:09:36! pic.twitter.com/koj3J5Y9Ee
— IRONMANLive (@IRONMANLive) October 13, 2018
Lange would enter T2 around 6mins back, with Gomez 8mins behind, and both in serious contention to see their run prowess move them to the front of the race. Kienle, meanwhile, would quit in T2.
THE 8HR BARRIER
With the 40 years of Ironman in Hawaii being celebrated in the build-up to the race, it was apt that major landmarks in the sport’s history would be broken in 2018. And that was the men’s course record and the magical eight hour barrier in Hawaii, a time that had eluded such greats as Mark Allen, Dave Scott, Craig Alexander and Jan Frodeno in Kona history.
#IMWC pic.twitter.com/a7KdM06IsT
— IRONMAN Triathlon (@IRONMANtri) October 14, 2018
Lange, who we interviewed earlier in the year about the sub-8hr record, moved to second almost instantly and was in control of the chase group on Cameron Wurf. He made the pass after 15km and gave Wurf a classy fist bump on the way, before taking off at 6min/mile pace to deliver a 2:41:32 marathon run that kicked the course record into touch. His 7:52:39 finish time was nearly 10mins faster than his 2017 course record of 8:01:40, and was scarily only his sixth-ever full Ironman race.
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Aernouts was next home in 7:56:41 to become the second man to dip under 8hrs in Hawaii, while McNamee was third in 8:01:09, which itself was the third-fastest Hawaii time in history. Skipper was seventh in 8:05:54.
The 40th birthday of Ironman was always going to be a special race, and so it proved with the Kona debut of Javier Gomez, course records broken, emotional stories of redemption and some heavyweights showdowns between the world’s greatest long-course athletes.
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Grabbing the headlines in the men’s elite event was Patrick Lange, who broke the Ali’i Drive finish line tape in 7:52:39 to become the Ironman World Champion for the second time. Following the German home was Belgium’s Bart Aernouts in second and David McNamee of Scotland, who ran in his way to third in 8:01:09.
Brit Joe Skipper would come home in seventh, while Javier Gomez was 11th on debut in Hawaii. Tim Don, after his horrific bike crash just over a year ago, crossed the line in 36th in tear-jerking scenes.
BRIT EXPECTIONS
Not since the multiple Ironman world champ Chrissie Wellington went toe-to-toe with Julie Dibens, Rachel Joyce and Leanda Cave in 2011 have British elite athletes received some much focus in Kona (head here for the women’s report featuring Lucy Charles).
In the men’s race, Scotland’s David McNamee was hoping to go even better than in 2017, when his third-placed finish was the best British male placing in Kona history. East Anglia’s Joe Skipper – second behind Jan Frodeno at Challenge Roth in 2016 – was also vying for his first top 10 finish in Hawaii, and there was the emotional appearance of Tim Don in the starting field, following a severe crash ahead of the 2017 edition of Hawaii.
Elsewhere on the starting pontoon was the five-time ITU World Champion, Javier Gomez, making his Kona racing debut, the reigning champion Patrick Lange, former winner Sebastian Kienle, and a Jan Frodeno-shaped hole after the two-time Kona champ pulled out ahead of the race.
In relatively cool and calm conditions for Kona, the men’s event saw Aussie athlete Josh Amberger first out of the water, closely followed by France’s Denis Chevrot. Gomez came out in 5th after 47:46mins and David McNamee was in 13th, 1:52mins down after a time of 49:31mins. Don would exit Kailua Bay in 50:34, 20th pro man overall
Some big names were already 2-3mins in arrears, including the reigning champion Patrick Lange and 2014 winner Sebastian Kienle. The 2017 second-place finisher and uber-biker Lionel Sanders was a further 3mins back.
.@JoshAmberger is in the lead and nearing the swim exit. #IMWC
Tune in to catch all the action from the @rokasports Swim Course via NBC Sports (US) and https://t.co/DRAL10Rxpg (Global). pic.twitter.com/sSGEq4Of2g
— IRONMAN Triathlon (@IRONMANtri) October 13, 2018
Onto the bike, and the major early news was that Kienle had suffered a puncture and was riding with a replacement wheel. But the German star had moved up to 14th by halfway through the 180km bike leg, with the field being led by biking powerhouses Andrew Starykowicz (USA) and Australia’s Cameron Wurf. Gomez was in ninth, Lange tenth, while the Brits of McNamee, Skipper, Don and Will Clarke were riding in proximity to each other in around 20th place.
Approaching transition two and Wurf’s bike course record of 4:12:54 from 2017 was in jeopardy, and the Australian would once again enter the Hawaii record books after a 4:09:36 split.
#IMWC @cameronwurf has come off the bike with the lead and established a new course record of 4:09:36! pic.twitter.com/koj3J5Y9Ee
— IRONMANLive (@IRONMANLive) October 13, 2018
Lange would enter T2 around 6mins back, with Gomez 8mins behind, and both in serious contention to see their run prowess move them to the front of the race. Kienle, meanwhile, would quit in T2.
THE 8HR BARRIER
With the 40 years of Ironman in Hawaii being celebrated in the build-up to the race, it was apt that major landmarks in the sport’s history would be broken in 2018. And that was the men’s course record and the magical eight hour barrier in Hawaii, a time that had eluded such greats as Mark Allen, Dave Scott, Craig Alexander and Jan Frodeno in Kona history.
#IMWC pic.twitter.com/a7KdM06IsT
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— IRONMAN Triathlon (@IRONMANtri) October 14, 2018
Lange, who we interviewed earlier in the year about the sub-8hr record, moved to second almost instantly and was in control of the chase group on Cameron Wurf. He made the pass after 15km and gave Wurf a classy fist bump on the way, before taking off at 6min/mile pace to deliver a 2:41:32 marathon run that kicked the course record into touch. His 7:52:39 finish time was nearly 10mins faster than his 2017 course record of 8:01:40, and was scarily only his sixth-ever full Ironman race.
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Aernouts was next home in 7:56:41 to become the second man to dip under 8hrs in Hawaii, while McNamee was third in 8:01:09, which itself was the third-fastest Hawaii time in history. Skipper was seventh in 8:05:54.
Il y a bientôt un an, Jérémy Frérot publiait son premier album solo intitulé Matriochka, un an et demi après la fin des Fréro Delavega. Après la sortie des titres Revoir, Tu donnes et Avant le jour, le chanteur de 29 ans poursuit l’exploitation de son opus avec un titre engagé, L’Homme nouveau. Il y est question de sauvegarde de la planète.
Comme il l’avait annoncé à ses fans, Jérémy Frérot a dévoilé le clip servant à illustrer L’Homme nouveau ce lundi 30 septembre 2019. La vidéo débute dans une ambiance sombre. Le mari de l’ancienne nageuse Laure Manaudou a une tondeuse à la main et se coupe les cheveux très court. Il apparaît torse nu.
Sur Instagram, Jérémy Frérot explique le pourquoi de ce clip réalisé par Yann Orhan, qui est également à l’origine de la pochette de l’album Matriochka. “Nous avons voulu montrer dans cette vidéo à la fois la beauté de notre planète et ce que nous en avons fait. La pureté et la fragilité de l’environnement. Une prise de conscience et des actions deviennent indispensables face à une urgence climatique… C’est pour cela que des Hommes nouveaux émergent et nous proposent des solutions, suivons-les ! Merci à tous ceux qui soutiennent ce message au quotidien et pendant les concerts !“, écrit-il. L’artiste en profite également pour remercier Surfrider Foundation Europe, et leurs acteurs, “pour leur soutien et leur engagement“.
Aujourd’hui sort le #clip de ” L’Homme Nouveau ” ralis par Yann Orhan @yannorhan qui je dois aussi la pochette de Matriochka. Nous avons voulu montrer dans cette vido la fois la beaut de notre plante et ce que nous en avons fait. La puret et la fragilit de l’environnement. Une prise de conscience et des actions deviennent indispensables face une urgence climatique… C’est pour cela que des Hommes Nouveaux mergent et nous proposent des solutions, suivons-les ! Merci tous ceux qui soutiennent ce message au quotidien et pendant les concerts ! Un grand merci Surfrider Foundation Europe @surfridereurope pour leur soutien et leur engagement.
Merci tous les prsents pour ce ramassage! Nous avons fait un peu de notre part du march… Merci la @villelatestedebuch et @surfridereurope pour leur soutien!
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Impact Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo will face AAA Reina de Reinas champion Faby Apache in a title vs. title match for TripleMania.
At tonight’s AAA Rey de Reyes event, Apache won the vacant Reina de Reinas title for a fourth time, a new record for her and the title. Purrazzo, who appeared on the show as a surprise, did commentary for the six-way match. Once it ended, Purrazzo issued the challenge to Apache, saying that she was friends with Konnan, and he told her that if she appeared tonight, she could challenge for the title. Faby eventually accepted the match once Purrazzo mentioned Triplemania. Purrazzo then attacked Apache, applying an armbar then powerbombing her twice.
Apache defeated Chik Tormenta, Lady Shani, Flammer, Maravilla, and a new Sexy Star (not Dulce Garcia) to win the championship. The previous champion, Taya Valkyrie, vacated the title after signing with the WWE earlier this year.
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Another challenge issued for tonight’s show had Andrade challenging Kenny Omega for the AAA Mega title, also for Triplemania, which currently doesn’t have a date.
L’hospitalisation de Michael Schumacher à Paris remonte à bientôt un mois. Si l’arrivée de l’ancien champion de Formule 1 de 50 ans à l’hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou avait fait grand bruit, sa sortie s’est effectuée dans une bien plus grande discrétion.
Lors de son admission, le septuple champion du monde (1994, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 et 2004) avait été pris en charge par Philippe Menasché, “un éminent chirurgien cardiaque âgé de 69 ans, pionnier de la thérapie cellulaire pour soigner l’insuffisance cardiaque“, comme l’avait précisé Le Parisien. Ce spécialiste peu connu du grand public est à l’origine d’une première mondiale réalisée en 2014, la greffe de cellules cardiaques embryonnaires sur une patiente de 68 ans atteinte d’insuffisance cardiaque.
Victime d’un grave accident de ski en décembre 2013 sur le domaine de Méribel, Michael Schumacher aurait bénéficié “de perfusions de cellules-souches qui sont diffusées dans l’organisme afin d’obtenir une action anti-inflammatoire systémique, c’est-à-dire dans tout l’organisme”, selon Le Parisien.
Pour la première fois depuis l’hospitalisation, Philippe Menasché s’est exprimé dans une interview accordée à La Repubblica. Face à l’espoir des fans, qui s’est renforcé après qu’une jeune femme en poste en cardiologie à l’hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou a déclaré que Michael Schumacher était conscient, le chirurgien a tempéré. “Je ne fais pas de miracles“, a-t-il déclaré. S’agissant des actes faits sur le Baron rouge, il ne s’agissait en rien “d’expérimentation“, comme certains l’ont avancé. “Un terme abominable ne correspond pas à une vision sérieuse de la médecine“, s’est-il défendu. “La technique des cellules souches ? Il y a eu beaucoup de progrès au cours des vingt dernières années, mais la vérité est que nous en savons encore très peu“, a ajouté Philippe Menasché.
Le chirurgien a également indiqué que “la situation s'[était] maintenant normalisée” dans son service, qui a connu quelques jours durant une attention médiatique hors-norme.
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C’est tout un monde qui s’est effondré avec lui, le 1er octobre 2018. Charles Aznavour, l’immense, le Formidable, s’est éteint dans sa baignoire à l’âge de 94 ans. Toute la France le pleure, mais en première ligne figurent ses quatre enfants ainsi que son épouse Ulla. Après cinquante-cinq ans de vie commune, l’élue de son coeur retrouve difficilement ses repères. Mais c’est avec force et recul qu’elle se repasse les disques de son défunt époux. “J’écoute ses chansons dans ma voiture, raconte-t-elle à Paris Match. Parce que j’écoute l’artiste, pas mon mari. Je n’ai jamais confondu les deux.” Ici ou ailleurs, il sera toujours là pour l’emmener au bout de ses rêves…
Ulla Thorsell est la troisième femme de Charles Aznavour. Avant de la rencontrer, le chanteur franco-arménien avait déjà dit “oui” à Micheline Rugel Fromentin en 1946 et à Evelyn Plessis en 1955. Mais douze années plus tard, il renfile son plus beau costume pour rejoindre son dernier amour à l’autel. Très discrète, elle ne s’est que très rarement confiée publiquement depuis le drame. “C’est arrivé comme ça, se souvient toutefois la veuve. Je ne me posais pas trop de questions, au début. Après, j’ai compris qui il était. Moi, j’étais une jeune Suédoise à Paris, très naïve. Je considère aujourd’hui que j’ai vraiment eu de la chance de tomber sur lui.“
Il était profondément gentil
De son vivant, Charles Aznavour ironisait sur cette déferlante d’unions, qui aurait pu faire peur à Ulla quand leurs chemins se sont croisés. Dans Télé 7 Jours, il expliquait avec humour qu’il était “trop jeune” lors de son premier mariage, “trop bête” pour le deuxième, mais que le troisième lui avait beaucoup apporté et l’avait notamment “remis sur les rails“. “Il avait besoin de mon calme, précise-t-elle désormais. Celui d’une fille issue d’une famille d’agriculteurs depuis le XVIe siècle. Les artistes changent avec une famille… Heureusement, on avait les mêmes valeurs. Il était profondément gentil. (…) C’était un génie.” Voilà sans doute le secret pour mener Une vie d’amour…
Retrouvez l’interview intégrale d’Ulla Thorsell dans le magazine Paris Match, numéro 3674, du 3 octobre 2019.
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Marraine de l’association Ninoo qui milite en faveur du soutien des enfants autistes et de leurs familles, membre actif des Bonnes Fées, Alexandra Rosenfeld est une femme engagée. En plein Octobre rose – campagne annuelle de communication destinée à sensibiliser au dépistage du cancer du sein et à récolter des fonds pour la recherche –, la belle Miss France 2006 a apporté son soutien à ce mouvement de façon sensuelle.
Vendredi 4 octobre, elle a publié sur Instagram une photo d’elle dénudée où seule une couette couvre sa poitrine. L’occasion pour ses internautes de découvrir une nouvelle fois sa jolie silhouette et son adorable baby bump. La jeune femme de 32 ans, qui est enceinte du journaliste Hugo Clément, ne pose pas aussi légèrement vêtue sans raison. “Octobre rose. Mois de sensibilisation contre le cancer du sein. L’objectif : encourager les femmes à participer au dépistage généralisé“, écrit-elle en commentaire.
Maman, ds que tu vas voir cette photo tu vas m’appeler pour me gronder car je n’ai pas de haut… mais je t’invite plutt prendre rdv pour une mammographie Octobre rose Mois de sensibilisation contre le cancer du sein. L’objectif Encourager les femmes participer au dpistage gnralis @romainrigalinsta
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La maman d’Alexandra Rosenfeld n’hésite jamais à faire part de son mécontentement lorsqu’elle voit une photo ou une légende qui la dérange sur les réseaux sociaux. En 2018, elle avait par envoyé le SMS suivant à sa fille : “Franchement, la légende sur ton dernier post. N’importe quoi. Franchement, change de légende.” Il était question d’une photo de la miss prenant la pose en bikini, la main sur la hanche. Elle avait légendé : “Je m’apprête à péter avec mon aisselle.”
After a federal task force announced Monday that four migrant families torn apart under former President Donald Trump will soon be reunited, rights advocates welcomed the news while also calling on the Biden administration to increase efforts to reunite children with their parents, attempt to address the harm done, and ensure that forced separation policies are never implemented again.
“We are happy that the first four families will be reunified this week, but this is only the beginning of a very long process involving more than 5,500 children,” deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project Lee Gelernt, who is representing separated families in a lawsuit, told NBC News.
Describing the few planned reunions as “just the tip of the iceberg,” Gelernt added to the Associated Press that “we need the Biden administration to provide relief to all of them, including providing them a permanent pathway to citizenship and care.”
According to the New York Times, the four women set to cross the border in California and Texas this week and reunite with their children are from Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, and “are among a group of about 35 parents the government has agreed to admit while working on a long-term solution for the remaining separated children, most of whom have been living with relatives in the United States.”
As the Times reports:
Up until President Joe Biden in February signed an executive order establishing the Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families, the work of reuniting forcibly separated families was limited to pro bono attorneys involved in a lawsuit against the Trump administration.
The task force includes representatives from the U.S. Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Justice, and State departments. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who chairs the body, vowed that more reunions will come.
“The Family Reunification Task Force has been working day and night, across the federal government and with counsel for the families and our foreign partners, to address the prior administration’s cruel separation of children from their parents,” he said in a statement Monday. “Today is just the beginning. We are reuniting the first group of families, many more will follow, and we recognize the importance of providing these families with the stability and resources they need to heal.”
During a call with reporters on Sunday, Mayorkas shared some details of the families who will soon be reunited in the United States, with the parents on humanitarian parole.
“They are children who were three years old at the time of separation,” he said. “They are teenagers who have had to live without their parent during their most formative years.”
Michelle Brané, a longtime immigrant rights advocate serving as the government task force’s executive director, told reporters that there are “1,000 families that we know of that remain separated or that we believe remain separated.”
“This is the first group, and we have more that are in the process that we will be reviewing,” she said, “so we hope that in the coming weeks and months reunifications will continue until a larger formal process is announced.”
Carol Anne Donohoe, managing attorney of the Family Reunification Project at the advocacy group Al Otro Lado (AOL), criticized the Biden administration’s framing of the upcoming reunions.
“Despite what Secretary Mayorkas would have the public believe, DHS has done nothing to facilitate the return and reunification of these parents this week, other than to agree to allow them in,” Donohoe told NBC News. “The only reason these mothers will be standing at the port of entry is because Al Otro Lado negotiated their travel visas with the Mexican government, paid for their airline tickets, and arranged for reunification.”
“We represent over 30 other parents who, like these mothers, were ready for return on day one of the Biden presidency,” she added. “DHS would have you believe that this is an incredibly complex task, yet AOL, with our limited resources, has already reunified nearly 40 deported parents with their children. There is no reason, other than lack of political will, for DHS to make these families undergo even one more day of separation and torture.”
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Le doute planait encore à propos de cette délicieuse nouvelle… mais ce temps est désormais révolu. Le dimanche 6 octobre 2019, James Middleton s’est emparé de ses réseaux sociaux pour confirmer qu’il allait bien épouser sa Frenchie girlfriend, Alizée Thevenet. Sur Instagram, le petit frère de 32 ans de Kate et de Pippa a partagé une photographie de son couple qui ne laisse plus de place au doute : on y voit la jolie fiancée, bague vissée à l’annulaire, se blottir dans les bras de son homme. “Elle a dit oui, légende-t-il. Notre secret a été révélé mais nous ne pourrions pas être plus heureux de vous le dire à notre tour.“
Des amis bavards de James Middleton avaient effectivement vendu la mèche en fin de semaine. Se rapprochant du Daily Mail, un proche expliquait que les fiançailles avaient bien eu lieu à l’abri des oreilles indiscrètes. “Elle porte un magnifique saphir au doigt, précisait-on dans la presse britannique. Ils gardent ça pour eux, pour l’instant, mais la nouvelle commence à fuiter dans leur entourage. Ils devraient l’annoncer officiellement la semaine prochaine.” Pris de court, les tourtereaux n’étaient plus à quelques heures près…
Grand amoureux des chiens, James Middleton doit son bonheur à sa chienne Ella, une rusée cocker spaniel. Après qu’Alizée soit venue saluer le loyal quadrupède dans une salle de restaurant, le jeune homme avait pris son courage à deux mains, rédigé un billet doux à sa destination et attendu que le charme opère. “Je ne fais normalement jamais ça, mais est-ce que tu accepterais d’aller boire un verre ?” avait-il écrit sur sa missive. Le couple a été aperçu du côté de Saint-Barthélemy en janvier 2019 et a officialisé sa relation au mois de mai suivant. Comme quoi, les paroles s’envolent mais les écrits restent…
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