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Forget Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard's biggest rival at Tour de France is Jai Hindley – Jonathan Vaughters

Jonas Vingegaard's biggest rival for the yellow jersey at the 2023 Tour de France is Jai Hindley (Bora-hansgrohe), not Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), EF Education–EasyPost boss Jonathan Vaughters claimed on The Breakaway after a Stage 5 thriller. Hindley grabbed the overall race lead with a brilliant solo win on Wednesday, with Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) obliterating Pogacar on the final climb to suggest the pre-race script of a two-horse race was all wrong.

Wimbledon: Iga Swiatek Breezes Into Third Round, Daniil Medvedev Advances

Top seed Iga Swiatek beat Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-2, 6-0 on Wednesday to cruise into the Wimbledon third round. The reigning US Open and French Open champion has never been beyond the fourth round at the grass-court tournament but has dropped just six games so far at the All England Club.

Stefanos Tsitsipas and Paula Badosa to play mixed doubles at Wimbledon, along with Katie Boulter and Alex de Minaur

Stefanos Tsitsipas and Paula Badosa are set to play mixed doubles together at Wimbledon after announcing they are in a relationship. Tsitsipas has said he feels “extremely blessed” to be in a relationship with Badosa and hasn’t had “that type of connection with anyone before”. Ad Rumours of a relationship between the two players started at the French Open when Badosa was spotted in the crowd during one of Tsitsipas’ matches.

PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi: Kylian Mbappe has two weeks to decide then 'the door is open' for shock exit

Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi has said Kylian Mbappe has two weeks to decide his future and ‘the door is open’ for him to leave. The Qatari businessman was speaking at a press conference to confirm the arrival of former Spain national team boss Luis Enrique as the club’s new manager, replacing Cristophe Gaultier. Ad The club have already seen Lionel Messi decline to extend his stay at the Parc des Princes, and the Argentine then moved to MLS side Inter Miami on a free transfer.

Jai Hindley takes yellow jersey with storming victory in Pyrenees

Jai Hindley ripped up the script for the Tour de France as he took the yellow jersey from Adam Yates with a breakaway victory in the Pyrenees while Jonas Vingegaard left chief rival Tadej Pogacar in his wake when he set off in pursuit. All the talk in the build-up to this Tour has been on the battle between defending champion Vingegaard and two-time winner Pogacar, but Hindley slipped into a strong breakaway on the road out of Pau and so ensured the general classification had been ripped up 163 kilometres later in Laruns.

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Forget Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard's biggest rival at Tour de France is Jai Hindley – Jonathan Vaughters

Wimbledon: Iga Swiatek Breezes Into Third Round, Daniil Medvedev Advances

Stefanos Tsitsipas and Paula Badosa to play mixed doubles at Wimbledon, along with Katie Boulter and Alex de Minaur

PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi: Kylian Mbappe has two weeks to decide then 'the door is open' for shock exit

Jai Hindley takes yellow jersey with storming victory in Pyrenees

SA's Lloyd Harris bows out of Wimbledon in 1st round loss to world number 49

Vingegaard 'too fast' as he takes decisive lead over Tour de France rival Pogacar

Hindley takes Tour de France lead with stage five win; Pogacar suffers in Pyrenees