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  • Former 1500m world champion Jenny Simpson steps away from running after cardiac arrest
    39-year-old collapsed during event in JuneAmerican won world title in 2011 Former 1500m world champion Jenny Simpson says she will not return to running after she collapsed during a track event in June.Simpson, a three-time Olympian and one of the most accomplished American female runners in history, was pacing a mile group at an event in North Carolina when she went into cardiac arrest. She was given CPR before she was rushed to hospital, where she was placed on life support due to issues with
     

Former 1500m world champion Jenny Simpson steps away from running after cardiac arrest

21 août 2026 à 13:10
  • 39-year-old collapsed during event in June

  • American won world title in 2011

Former 1500m world champion Jenny Simpson says she will not return to running after she collapsed during a track event in June.

Simpson, a three-time Olympian and one of the most accomplished American female runners in history, was pacing a mile group at an event in North Carolina when she went into cardiac arrest. She was given CPR before she was rushed to hospital, where she was placed on life support due to issues with her heart and lungs.

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  • Jannik Sinner and Jack Draper out of US Open as injuries take their toll
    World No 1 makes ‘difficult decision’ to miss slamDraper still recovering from bone bruise in left armJannik Sinner will miss the US Open with a right knee injury. The world No 1 has not played a match since beating Alexander Zverev last month to successfully defend his Wimbledon title, missing the Masters 1000 events in Canada and Cincinnati. Great Britain’s Jack Draper is also out of the event.The news comes a day after his great rival Carlos Alcaraz, whom the Italian lost to in the final in N
     

Jannik Sinner and Jack Draper out of US Open as injuries take their toll

Par : PA Media
21 août 2026 à 12:27
  • World No 1 makes ‘difficult decision’ to miss slam

  • Draper still recovering from bone bruise in left arm

Jannik Sinner will miss the US Open with a right knee injury. The world No 1 has not played a match since beating Alexander Zverev last month to successfully defend his Wimbledon title, missing the Masters 1000 events in Canada and Cincinnati. Great Britain’s Jack Draper is also out of the event.

The news comes a day after his great rival Carlos Alcaraz, whom the Italian lost to in the final in New York 12 months ago, revealed he will make his comeback at Flushing Meadows after four months out with a wrist injury.

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  • WNBA commissioner says ‘haters’ trying to stir up debate about trans athletes and league
    Transgender woman has never played in the leagueEngelbert says league being used as ‘political football’The WNBA commissioner, Cathy Engelbert, has denounced people she said are trying to “sow divisiveness” as the league grapples with a debate over transgender athletes.Engelbert made the comments on Thursday before the Indiana Fever’s loss to the Dallas Wings at the home of the Dallas Mavericks. Demonstrators showed up outside American Airlines Center, as they have at other venues since the Feve
     

WNBA commissioner says ‘haters’ trying to stir up debate about trans athletes and league

Par : Agencies
21 août 2026 à 09:04
  • Transgender woman has never played in the league

  • Engelbert says league being used as ‘political football’

The WNBA commissioner, Cathy Engelbert, has denounced people she said are trying to “sow divisiveness” as the league grapples with a debate over transgender athletes.

Engelbert made the comments on Thursday before the Indiana Fever’s loss to the Dallas Wings at the home of the Dallas Mavericks. Demonstrators showed up outside American Airlines Center, as they have at other venues since the Fever’s Sophie Cunningham voiced support for barring transgender girls and women from girls’ and women’s sports.

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  • Former Alabama basketball player wins $9.25m in defamation case against New York Times
    Kai Spears incorrectly linked to death of young motherTimes says it had not lost libel case in more than 50 yearsAn Alabama jury has awarded $9.25m in damages after finding that the New York Times defamed a college basketball player by incorrectly reporting that he was at the scene of a fatal shooting.Kai Spears, who played for the University of Alabama men’s team, sued the Times in 2023 after it published a report, citing a person familiar with the investigation, that said he was a passenger in
     

Former Alabama basketball player wins $9.25m in defamation case against New York Times

Par : Agencies
21 août 2026 à 08:32
  • Kai Spears incorrectly linked to death of young mother

  • Times says it had not lost libel case in more than 50 years

An Alabama jury has awarded $9.25m in damages after finding that the New York Times defamed a college basketball player by incorrectly reporting that he was at the scene of a fatal shooting.

Kai Spears, who played for the University of Alabama men’s team, sued the Times in 2023 after it published a report, citing a person familiar with the investigation, that said he was a passenger in a car involved in the shooting. The Times reported that the person had spoken “on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.”

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  • ‘The friendship disappeared’: López faces Romero after years of sparring and support
    Boxing’s most mercurial star is putting an old friendship aside as he moves up to 147lb to challenge Rolly Romero for the welterweight title he won against Ryan GarciaFor more than a decade, Teófimo López’s friendship with Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero endured through amateur tournaments, Las Vegas sparring sessions and the mismatched peaks and troughs of two volatile careers. That friendship ended, López says, the moment they signed to fight one another.On Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena along the Ve
     

‘The friendship disappeared’: López faces Romero after years of sparring and support

21 août 2026 à 05:00

Boxing’s most mercurial star is putting an old friendship aside as he moves up to 147lb to challenge Rolly Romero for the welterweight title he won against Ryan Garcia

For more than a decade, Teófimo López’s friendship with Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero endured through amateur tournaments, Las Vegas sparring sessions and the mismatched peaks and troughs of two volatile careers. That friendship ended, López says, the moment they signed to fight one another.

On Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena along the Vegas Strip, the 29-year-old López will challenge for Romero’s World Boxing Association welterweight title. The former lightweight and junior-welterweight champion is moving up to 147lb in pursuit of a belt in a third division. For Romero, himself a three-weight belt-holder after stacking titles at 135lb and 140lb, a victory would add another marquee name to a résumé transformed by last year’s upset of Ryan Garcia. The fight will be broadcast globally on Dazn pay-per-view and will see the champion go off as a roughly 2-1 underdog.

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© Photograph: Cris Esqueda/Cris Esqueda Matchroom Boxing

© Photograph: Cris Esqueda/Cris Esqueda Matchroom Boxing

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  • From Showtime to Insurance Time: how the LA Lakers became a $12.5bn hedge fund play
    Bob Iger and Josh Kushner’s $12.5bn bid to buy the Lakers shows that NBA teams are no longer family dynasties, but quick flips for private equity sharksFor years, the NBA was built on the alliance of patient money and marketing pizzazz, and no team captured that curious mixture better than the Los Angeles Lakers. Through Showtime in the 1980s and the dominance of the Shaq-Kobe years, the Lakers became the benchmark for a league and a sport intent on global conquest: charismatic, ambitious, and f
     

From Showtime to Insurance Time: how the LA Lakers became a $12.5bn hedge fund play

21 août 2026 à 05:00

Bob Iger and Josh Kushner’s $12.5bn bid to buy the Lakers shows that NBA teams are no longer family dynasties, but quick flips for private equity sharks

For years, the NBA was built on the alliance of patient money and marketing pizzazz, and no team captured that curious mixture better than the Los Angeles Lakers. Through Showtime in the 1980s and the dominance of the Shaq-Kobe years, the Lakers became the benchmark for a league and a sport intent on global conquest: charismatic, ambitious, and flashy, a sporting-cultural amalgam in which athleticism and celebrity held equal rank. Through careful front office recruitment, savvy coaching, and the harnessing of Hollywood’s star power, the Lakers evolved from a team into a “brand,” establishing a template that virtually every other outfit in the NBA has felt compelled to mimic in the years since. But the razzle-dazzle on the court – the Laker Girls, Magic flinging no-look passes, Shaq smashing the glass, Jack Nicholson smiling his Joker smile in the front row, all eyebrows and mischief – depended on a far more staid and stable arrangement off it. Real estate investor Jerry Buss bought the Lakers for $16m in 1979, and remained the majority owner until his death in 2013, when his children assumed control of the franchise.

When Jerry Buss died, the Lakers were valued at $1bn. Now, the team looks set to be sold to former Disney CEO Bob Iger and venture capitalist Josh Kushner, the brother of Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared, for $12.5bn. The sale is still under negotiation and will need to be approved by the NBA’s board of governors; the Buss siblings are also now bickering over whether to join the stampede and sell their minority 17.8% stake in the franchise to Iger and Kushner, which has added a subplot of Shakespearean family intrigue to proceedings. But in the likely event it goes through, the sale would make the Lakers the most valuable franchise in basketball. It would also signal an acceleration in private equity’s scramble to get its claws into the world of sport.

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  • Can Aryna Sabalenka find a way to repair her collapsed form? | Tumaini Carayol
    With one semi-final in her last seven tournaments, the coming months will define the next stage of her careerTowards the end of a messy first set tie-break late on Wednesday, Aryna Sabalenka wildly sprayed another painfully nervous backhand before slamming her racket to the ground. As the racket connected with the acrylic floor, its vibration dampener detached from the strings and rolled off in the direction of the broadcast camera pit by the side of the court.With the diminutive 20-year‑old Cze
     

Can Aryna Sabalenka find a way to repair her collapsed form? | Tumaini Carayol

20 août 2026 à 17:11

With one semi-final in her last seven tournaments, the coming months will define the next stage of her career

Towards the end of a messy first set tie-break late on Wednesday, Aryna Sabalenka wildly sprayed another painfully nervous backhand before slamming her racket to the ground. As the racket connected with the acrylic floor, its vibration dampener detached from the strings and rolled off in the direction of the broadcast camera pit by the side of the court.

With the diminutive 20-year‑old Czech player Sara Bejlek leading Sabalenka 6-5 in the tie-break, this slapstick sequence forced play to pause while the Belarusian and a couple of volunteers comically searched for the missing vibration damper underneath the cameras until she gave up and retrieved a new one. A few minutes later, Sabalenka trailed by a set.

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‘Here we go’: Carlos Alcaraz confirms US Open return after four-month injury absence

Par : PA Sport
20 août 2026 à 14:29

Carlos Alcaraz has won his battle to be fit for the US Open.

The seven-time grand slam champion has not played on the ATP Tour since April due to an ongoing wrist issue, but enlisted the help of football transfer journalist Fabrizio Romano to announce his comeback.

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  • Players welcome record $108m US Open prize fund and will not stage protests
    Total prize pool for tournament will be $108mPlayers guaranteed $140,000 for making first roundThe world’s leading tennis players have welcomed the US Open’s announcement of a 20% increase in prize money and agreed not to continue their protests at this year’s tournament as a result.The build up to both the French Open and Wimbledon was overshadowed earlier this year by a media boycott as the players continue to demand a greater share of tournament revenues, but after the US Tennis Association a
     

Players welcome record $108m US Open prize fund and will not stage protests

20 août 2026 à 15:23
  • Total prize pool for tournament will be $108m

  • Players guaranteed $140,000 for making first round

The world’s leading tennis players have welcomed the US Open’s announcement of a 20% increase in prize money and agreed not to continue their protests at this year’s tournament as a result.

The build up to both the French Open and Wimbledon was overshadowed earlier this year by a media boycott as the players continue to demand a greater share of tournament revenues, but after the US Tennis Association announced a record prize pot of $108m there will be no such disruption at Flushing Meadow.

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  • Double-elimination, reseeding and 20 teams: MLS plans potential overhaul of playoffs
    Format would resemble that of Australian rules footballLeague will ditch conferences for five-division setupMajor League Soccer is planning a significant overhaul of its playoff format, multiple league and club sources told the Guardian this week. The changes, which would debut in 2028 alongside the league’s shift to a fall-to-spring schedule, could include a “double-elimination” component and see as many as 20 teams feature. Sources spoke on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorize
     

Double-elimination, reseeding and 20 teams: MLS plans potential overhaul of playoffs

20 août 2026 à 08:00
  • Format would resemble that of Australian rules football

  • League will ditch conferences for five-division setup

Major League Soccer is planning a significant overhaul of its playoff format, multiple league and club sources told the Guardian this week. The changes, which would debut in 2028 alongside the league’s shift to a fall-to-spring schedule, could include a “double-elimination” component and see as many as 20 teams feature. Sources spoke on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to discuss the league’s plans.

The Guardian has viewed a potential schedule for the new format, in which the playoffs start in late April and unfold over roughly three weeks with MLS Cup being played on Sunday 21 May 2028. The changes to the playoff format would pair with long-reported changes to MLS’s regular season, with the league going to a five-division setup in place of its current Eastern and Western Conference structure.

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  • Michele Tafoya: from unassuming NFL sideline reporter to rightwing firebrand
    The former Sunday Night Football stalwart is now one step from a seat in the US Senate. And she could cause a shock in liberal MinnesotaAs the third leg of NBC’s Sunday Night Football crew alongside play-by-play man Al Michaels and the tart-tongued analyst Cris Collinsworth, Michele Tafoya was a paragon of deference and neutrality for 11 years as an NFL sideline reporter, dutifully relating boilerplate tactics, talking points and injury updates when she wasn’t nodding along to softball interview
     

Michele Tafoya: from unassuming NFL sideline reporter to rightwing firebrand

20 août 2026 à 05:00

The former Sunday Night Football stalwart is now one step from a seat in the US Senate. And she could cause a shock in liberal Minnesota

As the third leg of NBC’s Sunday Night Football crew alongside play-by-play man Al Michaels and the tart-tongued analyst Cris Collinsworth, Michele Tafoya was a paragon of deference and neutrality for 11 years as an NFL sideline reporter, dutifully relating boilerplate tactics, talking points and injury updates when she wasn’t nodding along to softball interviews or fumbling through hammy production gimmicks for viewers who might have been too offline to get the bit. She was almost pathologically committed to not doing anything to draw attention to herself or her gender in an era when sideline reporting was a fast track to national celebrity. Even her football takes hewed to the middle. (“New Orleans doesn’t want to lose to Atlanta twice in a season …”) Anyone who says they saw the 61-year-old emerging as a rightwing firebrand was watching a different game.

And yet here we are. Last week, Tafoya was the decisive winner of Minnesota’s US Senate Republican primary, earning the party’s nomination for November’s general election. Even more striking: she beat back eight challengers, not least Adam Schwarze, the party-endorsed pro-gun, pro-military ex-Navy SEAL, and Royce White, the anti-leftist, anti-trans NBA flameout currently testing WNBA gender norms.

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  • Tennis grand slams unite to establish player council in attempt to defuse prize money row
    Move could be confirmed along with $100m US Open potSlams have been in dispute with players for 18 monthsTennis’s grand slam tournaments have agreed to establish a formal player advisory council in a move aimed at defusing the row over prize money. The joint venture could be confirmed on Wednesday as part of the US Tennis Association’s (USTA) announcement of this year’s US Open prize money, which is expected to top $100m (£74m) for the first time.The four slams have been in dispute for almost 18
     

Tennis grand slams unite to establish player council in attempt to defuse prize money row

19 août 2026 à 06:49
  • Move could be confirmed along with $100m US Open pot

  • Slams have been in dispute with players for 18 months

Tennis’s grand slam tournaments have agreed to establish a formal player advisory council in a move aimed at defusing the row over prize money. The joint venture could be confirmed on Wednesday as part of the US Tennis Association’s (USTA) announcement of this year’s US Open prize money, which is expected to top $100m (£74m) for the first time.

The four slams have been in dispute for almost 18 months, with leading players – including Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka– demanding a greater share of tournament revenues as part of a wider overhaul of the sport’s finances and operations that would also lead to the major tournaments making contributions to player welfare and offer meaningful player representation.

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  • ‘I felt like Babe Ruth’: baseball’s 3ft 7in pinch-hitter, 75 years on
    Baseball showman Bill Veeck’s most audacious stunt sent Eddie Gaedel to bat for the lowly St Louis Browns in 1951 – and created an unforgettable diamond spectacleBill Veeck had a track record for designing some of the most elaborate marketing promotions during his four stints as a Major League Baseball owner, including an exploding scoreboard in 1960. But his most outlandish publicity stunt was sending 3ft 7in inch pinch-hitter Eddie Gaedel to the plate at a game 75 years ago Wednesday.Sporting
     

‘I felt like Babe Ruth’: baseball’s 3ft 7in pinch-hitter, 75 years on

19 août 2026 à 05:00

Baseball showman Bill Veeck’s most audacious stunt sent Eddie Gaedel to bat for the lowly St Louis Browns in 1951 – and created an unforgettable diamond spectacle

Bill Veeck had a track record for designing some of the most elaborate marketing promotions during his four stints as a Major League Baseball owner, including an exploding scoreboard in 1960. But his most outlandish publicity stunt was sending 3ft 7in inch pinch-hitter Eddie Gaedel to the plate at a game 75 years ago Wednesday.

Sporting uniform number 1/8, Gaedel was greeted with a standing ovation at Sportsman’s Park in St Louis as he came to bat in the second game of a doubleheader on 19 August 1951 for the St Louis Browns. A famous Associated Press photo shows Detroit Tigers catcher Bob Swift sitting on his knees with a ball in his glove, towering over Gaedel and his tiny strike zone. Not surprisingly, he walked on four pitches, and was immediately lifted for a pinch-runner.

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  • Brewers shell Mariners 22-0, tied for largest shutout win in 139 years
    Milwaukee match major-league record dating to 1887Yelich, Hamilton and Lara hit three-run home runsCatcher Sánchez completes five-hitter with slowballsThe Milwaukee Brewers matched baseball’s modern-era record for the biggest shutout, beating the Seattle Mariners 22-0 on Tuesday night behind three-run homers from Christian Yelich, David Hamilton and Luis Lara and a two-run shot by Jake Bauers.The major league-best Brewers (78-48) matched a franchise record for runs in a game. Continue reading...
     

Brewers shell Mariners 22-0, tied for largest shutout win in 139 years

Par : Agencies
18 août 2026 à 23:33
  • Milwaukee match major-league record dating to 1887

  • Yelich, Hamilton and Lara hit three-run home runs

  • Catcher Sánchez completes five-hitter with slowballs

The Milwaukee Brewers matched baseball’s modern-era record for the biggest shutout, beating the Seattle Mariners 22-0 on Tuesday night behind three-run homers from Christian Yelich, David Hamilton and Luis Lara and a two-run shot by Jake Bauers.

The major league-best Brewers (78-48) matched a franchise record for runs in a game.

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  • Multiple brawls overshadow Saints-Cowboys joint practice session
    Saints’ Bell alert as he was driven from the fieldAt least six fights mar joint practice at training campDonovan Ezeiruaku ejected for throwing punchesNew Orleans wide receiver Ronnie Bell was carted off the field because of the effects of Southern California heat after being involved in one of several fights during a chippy joint practice between the Saints and Dallas Cowboys on Tuesday.“He just had to go inside for a little bit. He just got a little bit overheated,” New Orleans coach Kellen Mo
     

Multiple brawls overshadow Saints-Cowboys joint practice session

Par : Agencies
18 août 2026 à 23:06
  • Saints’ Bell alert as he was driven from the field

  • At least six fights mar joint practice at training camp

  • Donovan Ezeiruaku ejected for throwing punches

New Orleans wide receiver Ronnie Bell was carted off the field because of the effects of Southern California heat after being involved in one of several fights during a chippy joint practice between the Saints and Dallas Cowboys on Tuesday.

“He just had to go inside for a little bit. He just got a little bit overheated,” New Orleans coach Kellen Moore said.

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  • Refuser les titres et aller à des concerts [fr]
    [fr] Ah, les titres! Ces derniers temps, prise d’une inspiration subite, j’ai fait quelques exercices d’écriture à la main. Promis, je demanderai à une IA de me les retranscrire pour que vous ne soyez pas obligés de zoomer sur les photos de mes ratures sur votre smartphone. C’est une expérience intéressante, d’autant plus que je résiste depuis des années à cette idée que l’écriture à la main possède une qualité fondamentalement différente, sur le plan cognitif, à celle où on tape sur un clavier
     

Refuser les titres et aller à des concerts [fr]

17 juillet 2026 à 16:47
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Ah, les titres! Ces derniers temps, prise d’une inspiration subite, j’ai fait quelques exercices d’écriture à la main. Promis, je demanderai à une IA de me les retranscrire pour que vous ne soyez pas obligés de zoomer sur les photos de mes ratures sur votre smartphone. C’est une expérience intéressante, d’autant plus que je résiste depuis des années à cette idée que l’écriture à la main possède une qualité fondamentalement différente, sur le plan cognitif, à celle où on tape sur un clavier (ou l’autre, où on dicte, que je connais aussi).

Une chose très claire quand on se met à écrire à la plume dans un cahier en mode “exercice d’écriture”, c’est qu’on ne part pas avec une idée préconçue de ce qu’on va dire, et surtout pas avec un titre. L’article de blog, lui, appelle haut et fort son titre, et je suis de plus en plus convaincue que ce qui pourrait sembler être un détail joue un rôle fondamental dans le fait que les blogs aient été délaissés au profit des réseaux sociaux. Juste là, j’écris sans titre. Je mettrai quelques mots au pif une fois que j’aurai fini d’écrire.

Je crois vraiment qu’il y a des démarches fondamentalement différentes dans l’écriture en ligne.

On peut avoir une intention claire, un message à faire passer. On va écrire un article avec une certaine structure, un titre réfléchi pour bien rendre compte du contenu, et être un peu efficace pour les moteurs de recherche. OK.

Mais le blog, il n’est pas né du magazine en ligne, il n’est pas l’enfant de la presse traditionnelle qui s’aventure au pays du numérique. Non, le blog est plutôt l’enfant des diaristes, des gens qui expriment quelque chose qu’ils ont sur le coeur ou dans les doigts, des gens qui écrivent parce que ça leur sert à quelque chose d’écrire et de partager, des gens qui racontent quelque chose qui leur parle. La mission d’informer le monde et d’atteindre le plus grand nombre, ce n’est pas ce sur quoi le blog s’est construit. Le blog c’est le lieu des bouteilles à la mer, de la réflexion à haute voix, de la correspondance d’avant internet qui nous tombe par hasard sous les yeux.

Et dans ce monde-là, même si le titre a son utilité pour le lecteur – pour s’y retrouver, pour avoir une vague idée de quoi sa parle, peut-être même décider si on lit ou non la première phrase – il dessert plutôt l’écriveur. Il est une première marche haute sur laquelle il faut se hisser, il enferme le texte dans une boîte, et la pensée aussi.

Je refuse les titres, de plus en plus. Vous l’avez peut-être remarqué, ces dernières semaines, ces derniers mois. Je veux écrire, surtout. Tant mieux si vous voulez me lire, aussi. Mais le titre, franchement… c’est comme la photo d’illustration. Il y a quelques années j’ai commencé à mettre presque systématiquement une photo pour illustrer mes articles de blog. Parce que quand on partage sur les réseaux, ça donne mieux. Et aussi parce qu’on aime les photos, et j’aime prendre des photos, et j’ai des tas de jolies photos, d’ailleurs. Mais vous avez peut-être remarqué que ma photo d’illustration n’a pas toujours grand-chose à voir avec ce dont je parle. Des fois oui, un peu. Mais la plupart du temps, je regarde juste dans mes photos récentes, j’en choisis une sympa. Parfois elle me parle un peu par rapport à ce que j’ai écrit, mais pas toujours. Des fois c’est juste parce qu’elle est jolie.

Je me dis que je devrais nourrir la “médiathèque” de mon WordPress avec un petit stock de photos choisies, à l’avance, au gré de mes égarements dans mes albums photos. Je pourrais par la suite piocher directement dedans quand je suis prête à publier mon article, plutôt que de scroller sur mon téléphone pour chercher quelque chose d’exploitable, entre les captures d’écran, les photos de tickets de caisse ou de plantes malades, les mauvais clichés du quotidien et de mon salon en désordre, ou ma dernière mesure de tension artérielle.

Ecrire pour écrire, un peu, sans but précis. C’est peut-être pas génial à lire, surtout si vous me connaissez pas. Mais moi ça me fait du bien.

Ces temps je réfléchis beaucoup à l’équilibre de ma vie, au système complexe d’ingrédients multiples qui me permet de fonctionner et qui s’est effondré il y a 16 mois aujourd’hui. Je reconstruis. La fatigabilité est le sable dans les rouages. Je fais des allers-retours: faut-il me reposer plus? Faire moins? Faire plus mais d’autres choses?

Le manque d’activité physique peut nourrir la fatigue. Le manque de plaisir aussi, le manque de contact. Je me demande de plus en plus si le plus gros obstacle à ma récupération en ce moment n’est pas ce qui est en trop, mais ce qui manque. J’apprends à me reposer mieux – plus tôt, plus consciemment. Il faut faire des pauses avant d’en avoir besoin. C’est pas simple pour moi, les pauses, mais je trouve des stratégies: un moment de puzzle, écouter quelques chansons, m’étendre avec un podcast ou un livre, même regarder ma série.

Mais le gros de ce qui manque juste maintenant c’est le mouvement et le plaisir. Donc je suis en train de me mettre à reprendre l’activité physique. Pas juste me promener au parc. Ramer ou pédaler et me retrouver à bout de souffle et les pulsations à 180. Il n’y a pas besoin de faire ça longtemps – ça me fait déjà un bien fou. Justement: je ne peux pas juste “reprendre” ce que je faisais avant directement. Je dois reconstruire. Alors reconstruisons. Ma vie sociale et mes loisirs ont pâti: ça aussi, il faut reprendre. En mars, j’ai tout coupé, mais peut-être était-ce trop radical? Ou nécessaire sur le moment, mais plus maintenant?

J’ai été à deux concerts ces dernières semaines. Mika et Lewis Capaldi. Ça fait un bien fou. Même pas de mal de tête le lendemain, malgré des nuits courtes. La semaine prochaine, je vais à Paléo deux soirs. Je me réjouis. Je vais remettre les pieds au judo et au chant dans les semaines qui viennent, à voir exactement quand, en mode “thérapeutique” pour commencer. Pas tout le cours, pas toute la répète – une dose limitée pour en tirer les bénéfices sans déclencher l’alerte de surcharge. Il trotte aussi dans ma tête l’idée d’organiser une après-midi par mois “sociale”: apéro ou thé, jeux de société ou puzzle. J’en ai marre de ne pas voir les gens que j’aime. Je vais aussi couper dans les rendez-vous médicaux: bien sûr qu’on ne peut pas tout envoyer balader, je dois faire mon job de patiente, mais certaines choses peuvent peut-être être espacées, ou repoussées, ou même mises sur pause “jusqu’à ce que”.

L’autre chose qui est cruciale pour moi c’est la structure, les routines, les habitudes. Pas évident, entre l’accident et le changement brutal de rythme qu’il a amené, la reprise du travail un peu par à-coups, l’alternance de congés pour cause de formation ou de festival, le décès d’Oscar aussi. Tout ça a bien mis à mal la structure de mes journées et de mes semaines qui me sert de support. Pas facile de remettre ça en place entre les coups de mou dûs à la fatigue subite que je n’avais pas vue venir, les semaines de canicule en mode survie, les gens qui meurent et les diverses petites urgences de la vie qui ne prennent pas de vacances, elles. Mais je reconstruis.

J’essaie de me lever à heure régulière, même si ça peut vouloir dire moins de sommeil. En passant, c’est moins tentant de se coucher à pas d’heure quand on sait que le réveil sonne le lendemain que quand on se dit “bah je peux dormir si besoin”. Je mets en place des petites habitudes avec Juju – monter à l’appartement pour le petit déj sur le balcon et le souper. Il pionce à côté de moi en ce moment, pendant que je pianote sur mon clavier dans le noir. Mettre en route Bob et ranger la cuisine dans la foulée quand je ramène mes assiettes — sinon, le risque est grand que je ne le fasse pas par la suite. Un épisode de Grey’s Anatomy le soir: un objectif réaliste si je prends garde de me “programmer/vacciner” (“à la fin de l’épisode je sais que je vais vouloir enchaîner avec un deuxième, c’est fait pour ça, mais je vais quand même éteindre la télé et l’ordi et m’arrêter là même si c’est frustrant”) et si j’évite de mettre en route la série quand mon moral est en berne (mieux vaut juste écrire ou lire, à ce moment-là, et faire l’impasse sur la télé). Voilà un petit aperçu, il y en a d’autres.

Sur ce, il est grand temps que je descende (avec Juju) voir ce qui se passe ce soir à Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital!

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