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Daily Tribune
19-07-2025
- Climate
- Daily Tribune
Pogacar extends Tour de France lead with uphill time-trial win
Tadej Pogacar won a time trial on stage 13 of the Tour de France yesterday to extend his lead at the top of the overall standings to four minutes and seven seconds. Jonas Vingegard and Remco Evenepoel kept their places in the overall top three, but this 10.9km time-trial triumph was defending champion Pogacar's second crushing win in two days. Pogacar was last down the start ramp of the 171 riders setting off from the bottom of the Peyragudes mountain. Decked out in his overall leader's yellow kit, the 26-year-old Team UAE rider was faster from the off despite his exertions from the previous day, when he finished over two minutes ahead of main rival Vingegaard. By the time he finished at the Peyragudes Altiport where the opening scene of the James Bond movie 'Tomorrow Never Dies' was shot, Pogacar was 36sec faster than Vingegaard, while Primoz Roglic was third at 1min 20sec. Riders warmed up for the time trial wearing ice jackets to combat the sizzling 30C temperature at the foot of the climb.
The 42
18-07-2025
- Climate
- The 42
Pogacar extends Tour de France lead, Healy 11th overall
TADEJ POGACAR won a time trial on stage 13 of the Tour de France on Friday to extend his lead at the top of the overall standings to four minutes and seven seconds. Meanwhile, Ireland's Ben Healy is 11th in the general classification after finishing in 26th place today. Jonas Vingegard and Remco Evenepoel kept their places in the overall top three, but this 10.9km time-trial triumph was defending champion Pogacar's second crushing win in two days. Pogacar was last down the start ramp of the 171 riders setting off from the bottom of the Peyragudes mountain. Advertisement Decked out in his overall leader's yellow kit, the 26-year-old Team UAE rider was faster from the off despite his exertions from the previous day, when he finished over two minutes ahead of main rival Vingegaard. By the time he finished at the Peyragudes Altiport, where the opening scene of the James Bond movie 'Tomorrow Never Dies' was shot, Pogacar was 36sec faster than Vingegaard, while Primoz Roglic was third at 1min 20sec. Riders warmed up for the time trial wearing ice jackets to combat the sizzling 30C temperature at the foot of the climb. Australian champion Luke Plapp set the early pace and sat in the hot seat all day before suddenly packing his case and vacating it on seeing Vingegaard storm up the mountain. Pogacar was even faster. At 1580m altitude, the ride remained beneath the clouds and below the treeline, but even atop the hill, it was punishingly hot. American Quinn Simmons gave hundreds of high-fives on the home straight as one of the rare riders appearing to enjoy the climb. Saturday's stage 14 is another punishing affair with around 50km of climbing, starting with the famous Col de Tourmalet and ending at the Luchon-Superbagneres ski resort. You can view the results in full here. – © AFP 2025
Perth Now
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
James Bond star Joe Don Baker dies aged 89
James Bond actor Joe Don Baker has died at the age of 89. The star, who featured in three 007 films and appeared alongside Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan in the blockbusters, passed away on May 7. Baker first appeared in Bond in the 1987 movie 'The Living Daylights' as he portrayed the crazed arms dealer antagonist Brad Whitaker. He returned to the iconic spy series in 1995's 'GoldenEye' as a good guy, playing the CIA agent Jack Wade before reprising the role in 'Tomorrow Never Dies' in 1997. A statement from the actor's family read: "His intellectual curiosity made him a voracious reader, inspiring a great love of nature and animals, particularly cats. "Throughout his life, Joe Don touched many lives with his warmth and compassion, leaving an indelible mark on everyone fortunate enough to know him." It added: "As we say goodbye to Joe Don, we hold onto the memories and the love he shared with us. "Though he may no longer be with us in body, his spirit will always remain, a guiding light in the lives he touched. "Rest in peace, Joe Don. You will be dearly missed but never forgotten." Before coming to prominence in the Bond films, Baker enjoyed his breakthrough role as Sheriff Buford Presser in the acclaimed 1973 vigilante action movie 'Walking Tall' and felt that the flick – which told the story of a real-life lawman who stopped crime in his Tennessee town - captured the US public's imagination at the time. He said during the 1990s: "In those days in the early '70s, I think a lot of people wanted to take a stick to (Richard) Nixon and all those Watergate guys. "(The film) touched a vigilante nerve in everybody who would like to do in the bad guys but don't have the power and would get in trouble if (they) did. But Buford was able to pull it off." He also featured in the 1985 BBC programme 'Edge of Darkness', earning a BAFTA nomination. Other credits during nearly 50 years on screen include Chevy Chase's comedy 'Fletch', Martin Scorsese's 'thriller Cape Fear' and Tim Burton's sci-fi movie 'Mars Attacks'. Baker never had any children but was married to Maria Dolores Rivero-Torres from 1969 to 1980. He is survived by relatives in his home city of Groesbeck in Texas.
