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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Vingegaard 'missed target' Pogacar on Stage 18
Brent Bookwalter and Tejay Van Garderen analyze Visma's attempt to push Jonas Vingegaard ahead of Tadej Pogacar that fell flat in the mountains of Tour de France Stage 18 and dive into the white jersey battle.
RTÉ News
3 days ago
- Sport
- RTÉ News
Lorena Wiebes wins chaotic Tour de France Femmes stage
Lorena Wiebes prevailed in a chaotic sprint to claim victory in the third stage of the Tour de France Femmes on Monday, edging fellow Dutch rider Marianne Vos who took the overall lead after a 163.5km ride from La Gacilly to Angers. Sprint specialist Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime), who narrowly lost stage two to Mavi Garcia, made an explosive push for the finish as a crash in the final four kilometres temporarily took out several riders including 2023 champion Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez). Opening stage winner Vos (Visma–Lease a Bike) lost a photo-finish to Wiebes but reclaimed the yellow jersey from Kim Le Court Pienaar (AG Insurance-Soudal), who led the general classification after Sunday's second stage but dropped to second with a six-second deficit. Ireland's Lara Gillespie was 22nd and is now 112th overall. Mia Griffin crossed the line in 31st (she's 114th in the GC), and Fiona Mangan was 71st (102nd in the GC). Gillespie, Griffin and Mangan are making Tour history as the first Irishwomen to compete in the event. The stage, mostly on a flat terrain, began without Giro d'Italia winner Elisa Longo Borghini, who withdrew from the race due to a stomach infection. Four riders made an early attack to form the leading pack, with Alison Jackson (EF Education-Oatly) winning a mountain sprint to the top of Cote de La Richardiere. But others slowly caught up, with Lotte Kopecky expertly leading her teammate Wiebes to the front, setting up the final sprint just before the crash derailed a number of riders behind them. New Zealand's Ally Wollaston (FDJ-Suez) finished third as her teammate Vollering, who recovered from the crash, remained in contention in the general classification, sitting 19 seconds behind Vos. The Tour continues on Tuesday with stage four, a 130.7km ride from Saumur to Poitiers through another mostly-flat terrain.
Dubai Eye
4 days ago
- Sport
- Dubai Eye
UAE Team Emirates-XRG: Pogačar clinches fourth Tour de France title
Tadej Pogačar won his fourth Tour de France title finishing fourth on the final stage into Paris, leading the UAE Team Emirates-XRG to its fourth Tour victory in six years. The Slovenian rider secured the overall win with a total time of 76:00:32, finishing 4 minutes 24 seconds ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Visma–Lease a Bike) and 11 minutes ahead of Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe). From stages 1 through 20, Pogačar didn't lose a single second to any of the other top five riders in the general classification — a feat matched only once before, by Maurice Garin in 1903. He won four stages and also claimed the King of the Mountains classification for the third time in his career. UAE Team Emirates-XRG took five stage wins overall, with Tim Wellens adding a solo victory on Stage 15. The team supported Pogačar from the opening stage in Lille through the Alps and Pyrenees to Paris, despite losing a rider before the first rest day. Jonas Vingegaard, winner in 2022 and 2023, mounted a serious challenge, especially with an all-in attack on Stage 18, but couldn't close the gap. He finished second overall. Lipowitz completed the podium in third. This is Pogačar's fourth Tour win, putting him alongside Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Induráin, all of whom have five. At 26, Pogačar is on track to challenge that record.
Express Tribune
24-07-2025
- Climate
- Express Tribune
Milan wins crash-marred TdF sprint
Italy's Jonathan Milan escaped a spectacular pile-up of flying bikes and bodies to win stage 17 of the Tour de France in lashing rain on Wednesday, extending his lead in the sprint points race. Overall leader Tadej Pogacar and his closest rival Jonas Vingegaard (4min 15sec behind) finished safely despite a mass fall 800m from the finish line at Valence at the foot of the Alps. On the rain-slick roads at Valence once one rider had fallen his interminable slide across the tarmac sent riders flying like skittles leaving only 10 to contest the sprint. "It was chaotic but incredible. I was expecting a bit of rain. We placed as best as we could and the guys put me in the best spot just before the fall," said Milan. This was a second stage win for Milan, who won Italy's first stage since 2019 on stage eight. The 24-year-old Lidl Trek rider now has 312 points, and is in a powerful position to win the battle for the green jersey in Paris as Pogacar is second at 240 with only two possible sprints left at 50pts each. Alpine peaks loom large As the remaining 164 riders embarked from the sleepy Provence village of Bollene, the collective will of the peloton made for a slow approach of the Alps. Billed as a sprinters stage on an unusually mild (22C) day the riders were also spared the 50kph winds that had been forecast. But the rain deprived the stage of a full bunch sprint due to the horrid fall. Attention now turns to three massive climbs culminating with the ascent to the 2304m altitude Col de la Loze on stage 18 will sort the wheat from the chaff on Thursday's Queen stage. Team UAE rider Pogacar seemed unperturbed. "We can't get arrogant, we need to keep it simple and stay quiet," said the 26-year-old. "I'm really looking forward to it. I have been beaten there before but I have good legs and maybe I'll get my revenge," he said. After 10 opening days of rolling terrain in the north and west of France where Pocacar and Vingegaard kept a watchful eye on each other as emerging riders stole the headlines, week two was where the real fight began. The defending champion Pogacar attacked the Dane Vingegaard on the first mountain, smacking over two minutes into him on one climb as things looked grim for the Slovenian's rivals. The following day on a regular bike on a time-trial Pogacar whacked another 40sec into the Visma star who has however taken over four minutes off the Slovenian on a single stage to win the 2023 Tour. While Friday's hellishly-designed five mountains of madness on stage 19 sound the final call for any pretender to knock Pogacar off his high perch. Unless that is the three ascents of the cobbled roads to the Sacre Coeur Basilica in old Montmartre descend into chaos on Sunday. Another Slovenian rider Matej Mohoric of Bahrain Victorious said he was confident Pogacar would close out his fourth Tour de France win. "He was born with a machine inside him, and he was born with the brain to use that machine," Mohoric said.
The Sun
24-07-2025
- Climate
- The Sun
Jonathan Milan wins crash-marred Tour de France sprint in Valence
ITALY'S Jonathan Milan escaped a spectacular pile-up of flying bikes and bodies to win stage 17 of the Tour de France in lashing rain on Wednesday, extending his lead in the sprint points race. Overall leader Tadej Pogacar and his closest rival Jonas Vingegaard (4min 15sec behind) finished safely despite a mass fall 800m from the finish line at Valence at the foot of the Alps. On the rain-slick roads at Valence once one rider had fallen his interminable slide across the tarmac sent riders flying like skittles leaving only 10 to contest the sprint. 'It was chaotic but incredible. I was expecting a bit of rain. We placed as best as we could and the guys put me in the best spot just before the fall,' said Milan. This was a second stage win for Milan, who won Italy's first stage since 2019 on stage eight. The 24-year-old Lidl Trek rider now has 312 points, and is in a powerful position to win the battle for the green jersey in Paris as Pogacar is second at 240 with only two possible sprints left at 50pts each. - Alpine peaks loom large - As the remaining 164 riders embarked from the sleepy Provence village of Bollene, the collective will of the peloton made for a slow approach of the Alps. Billed as a sprinters stage on an unusually mild (22C) day the riders were also spared the 50kph winds that had been forecast. But the rain deprived the stage of a full bunch sprint due to the horrid fall. Attention now turns to three massive climbs culminating with the ascent to the 2304m altitude Col de la Loze on stage 18 will sort the wheat from the chaff on Thursday's Queen stage. Team UAE rider Pogacar seemed unperturbed. 'We can't get arrogant, we need to keep it simple and stay quiet,' said the 26-year-old. 'I'm really looking forward to it. I have been beaten there before but I have good legs and maybe I'll get my revenge,' he said. After 10 opening days of rolling terrain in the north and west of France where Pocacar and Vingegaard kept a watchful eye on each other as emerging riders stole the headlines, week two was where the real fight began. The defending champion Pogacar attacked the Dane Vingegaard on the first mountain, smacking over two minutes into him on one climb as things looked grim for the Slovenian's rivals. The following day on a regular bike on a time-trial Pogacar whacked another 40sec into the Visma star who has however taken over four minutes off the Slovenian on a single stage to win the 2023 Tour. While Friday's hellishly-designed five mountains of madness on stage 19 sound the final call for any pretender to knock Pogacar off his high perch. Unless that is the three ascents of the cobbled roads to the Sacre Coeur Basilica in old Montmartre descend into chaos on Sunday. Another Slovenian rider Matej Mohoric of Bahrain Victorious said he was confident Pogacar would close out his fourth Tour de France win. 'He was born with a machine inside him, and he was born with the brain to use that machine,' Mohoric said. - AFP
