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The moment has truly arrived for Saudi Arabia on the international football stage. Long ranked as the number one sport in the country for both players and fans, today, football’s profile has never been higher.
ABU DHABI: The UAE’s national team have arrived in Mongolia for the Jiu-Jitsu World Championship where they are hoping to win a fourth consecutive title.
On the French national holiday of Quatorze Juillet the race enters the Jura mountains for a summit finish on the fearsome Grand Colombier (17.4km at 7.1%) where the then defending champion Egan Bernal cracked in 2020. The sport’s landscape has changed dramatically since Bernal last rode the Tour, with Tadej Pogacar, Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard dominating the battle for yellow ever since. Still somewhat short of his best, Bernal will hope at least to bury his demons on what will be the first GC showdown of the second week.
Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) is «stuck» between pursuing a high overall finish at the 2023 Tour de France and chasing stage wins, according to his team-mate Luke Rowe, who backed the British star to fight for a podium spot. Pidcock wrote off his own hopes of winning the yellow jersey before the first pedal stroke, claiming he was «not good enough» to challenge Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) this year. Ad Yet he has avoided incident and held his own in the mountains to sit eighth in the general classification after 12 stages, albeit 5'26" back on leader Vingegaard.
UAE Team Emirates will be happy to let Jumbo-Visma «fry themselves» in their ultra-aggressive defence of the yellow jersey, according to Ineos Grenadiers star Luke Rowe. Gone are the days of Team Sky, now Ineos, sucking the soul out of the Tour de France with their unbreakable mountain train. Instead, Jumbo-Visma have adopted an unusual approach to defending the overall lead for Jonas Vingegaard – all out attack.
Just like the proverbial London buses – you wait an eternity for one, then two come in quick succession. So it has proved for Cofidis in this year’s Tour de France – the French team now swooping for two stage wins in two weeks, having previously experienced a drought stretching back 15 years.
The Basque rider went solo in the last short climb of the day, 30km from the finish, and never looked back to claim a second career Tour stage win.
Basque rider Ion Izagirre broke away for a solo triumph on stage 12 of the Tour de France on Thursday.