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Jonas Vingegaard defended his 10-second lead in the general classification on Stage 15 as he fended off moves from his rival Tadej Pogacar in the last kilometre of the 179km stage. On Tuesday, Vingegaard and Pogacar go again for the race's only individual time trial. There is just one category 2 climb which should favour the Tour’s GC contenders over the Tour’s time trial specialists.
Mark Williams won all three matches without dropping a frame on Monday in coasting through to the Championship League last eight as Group F winner in Leicester. The three-time world champion began his day with a 3-0 win over Barry Pinches before adding further 3-0 victories over Martin O'Donnell and Robbie Williams respectively to progress with a maximum nine points. Ad “I got off to a flyer in the last match, I don’t think he potted a ball," said Williams.
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has hinted at more signings during this summer transfer window ahead of the 2023-24 Premier League season. The Gunners have spent more than £200m to sign Declan Rice, Jurrien Timber and Kai Havertz this window, but the Spaniard has not ruled out Arsenal making more additions to his squad. Ad «Let's see there is a lot of time still in the market and a lot of expectation in some of our players,» Arteta said.
England have cut Bath flanker Sam Underhill and Sale prop Bevan Rodd from their World Cup training squad. Borthwick has trimmed his squad from 41 to 39 players as England step up their preparations for the World Cup in France which gets underway on September 8. Ad Underhill was one of England's key players in their run to the 2019 final, but has struggled with injuries since and faced heavy competition along the back row.
The fourth and final major of the men's season is upon us with The Open set to get underway at Royal Liverpool Golf Club on Thursday and Cameron Smith was one of the early arrivals on the Merseyside coast. The Australian, who controversially switched over to LIV Golf in the wake of his victory at St Andrews last year, got straight to work preparing to defend the title that he won in nail-biting fashion over Cameron Young and Rory McIlory.
Novak Djokovic has been fined £6,117 for smashing his racquet against the net post during the Wimbledon men's singles final against Carlos Alcaraz. The incident happened in the fifth set of his defeat to the 20-year-old when his serve was broken in the third game. Ad Umpire Fergus Murphy issued Djokovic a warning for a code violation before the 23-time Grand Slam champion eventually went on to lose to Alcaraz 1-6 7-6(6) 6-1 3-6 6-4 after four hours and 42 minutes.
Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) says he has had a change of tactics to last year's Tour de France as he battles it out with Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) in the general classification. Pogacar is currently ten seconds behind Vingegaard in the GC battle and it seems the Slovenian is happy to wait before launching an attack during the final week of the Tour. Ad «Last year [at the second rest day] I was far behind and maybe wanting too much,» Pogacar said.
Alice Tai is adamant her performance at Paris 2024 will not be what defines her as an athlete. The Poole-born swimmer, 24, is already a Paralympic champion having won relay gold at Rio 2016 as part of a team which blitzed the 34-points world record. Ad Just as remarkable was Tai's Commonwealth Games gold medal last summer, which came just six months after her right leg was amputated below the knee after worsening pain in her right foot.