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Reigning champion Tadej Pogacar won the third stage of the Tour de France on Monday to snatch the “special” leader’s yellow jersey from rival Jonas Vingegaard.The world champion and Vingegaard are dead level on time but Pogacar took over the race lead by virtue of his better finishing positions in the opening three stages.It was Pogacar’s 22 Tour stage victory and his 10th in the Pyrenees.The 27-year-old Slovenian finished two seconds ahead of the Dane and also earned four more bonus seconds than Vingegaard to wipe out his six-second deficit from the start of the day.”Of course, to take the yellow jersey is the dream for any cyclist of any age,” said Pogacar.”For me it’s, I don’t know which time already, but every time I can get it again on my shoulders, it feels really special.”Former Giro d’Italia winner Richard Carapaz came past French teenage prodigy Paul Seixas to take third in the same time as Vingegaard at the end of a 196km stage which started in Granollers, Spain and finished in Les Angles in the French Pyrenees.Despite a plea from organisers for fans to stay away because of raging wildfires just 70 kilometres away from the finish, there were plenty of people by the side of the roads in France.Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel was eighth at 4sec and remains third overall but fell to 23sec off the lead.Sunday’s stage two winner Isaac Del Toro is fourth overall at 24sec after finishing eighth, with Spaniard Juan Ayuso (27sec) and Seixas (48sec) rounding out the top six.After Pogacar let his UAE Team Emirates team-mate Del Toro take the victory on Sunday’s finish on the Montjuic hill in Barcelona, this time it was the Mexican who led out his team leader for a decisive sprint to the line.Pogacar left no doubt that he had his eyes on both the stage victory and the yellow jersey with a dominant win.”It’s because of Isaac today (that) I got some extra power in the final,” said Pogacar.”He committed more than 100 percent in the final climb and all the team actually.”In the middle of the stage we decided that it’s possible to go for the stage win and I’m really, really happy that we started the Tour like this.” No scraps for anyoneOn a day which looked ideally suited to a breakaway, UAE left no scraps for anyone else.An 18-man breakaway finally formed after 70km and stretched out a maximum lead of three minutes.At that point, UAE took over the pace-setting. They had reduced the gap by half by the time the break reached the 9.3km-long first-category Col de Toses climb, just over halfway through the stage.The break thinned out to a six-man group by the top and then with 34km left, French pair Alex Baudin and Nicolas Prodhomme set off alone.Prodhomme lasted only another eight kilometres and Baudin, who had done enough to claim the polkadot mountains jersey, was caught 12km from home.UAE controlled the race until the final short climb to Les Angles, and Pogacar did the rest. Related Story Source link
Jasmine Paolini reached her first Grand Slam quarter-final for two years, edging out rising Filipina star Alexandra Eala in a tense last 16 match at Wimbledon on Monday. Italian 13th seed Paolini ended the run of Iga Swiatek’s conqueror Eala with a gritty 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 victory on Centre Court.”I feel so lucky to have this opportunity and so lucky to get the win,” said Paolini, before addressing the watching Roger Federer in the royal box.”I just needed to stay focused and don’t think about him (Federer) being here… It’s an amazing feeling to be here right now with the win.”Paolini will face Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine in her first major quarter-final since reaching the Wimbledon final in 2024, when she lost to Barbora Krejcikova in three sets.The Italian was also the French Open runner-up to Swiatek in 2024.She has struggled for most of this season but has rediscovered her form at the All England Club since losing the opening set of her first-round match 6-0.”After the first set in the first round I was like ‘Okay, it can only go better’… point by point, game by game, I was feeling better,” Paolini added.The 21-year-old Eala had become the first woman from the Philippines to reach the third and fourth rounds of a Slam, but despite threatening a comeback in the second set, could not get the better of the wily Paolini.The 30-year-old Paolini clinched a nip-and-tuck opening set with a break, having failed to serve it out in the previous game.After the players traded early breaks in the second set, 29th seed Eala broke for a 4-3 lead and then held from 0-40 down in the next game.The left-hander managed to close it out to force a decider.The vital moment of a nervy third set came when Paolini broke in the eighth game, before serving it out confidently despite falling 0-30 down. Related Story Source link
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France coach Didier Deschamps hailed his side for keeping their cool against an aggressive Paraguay team in heatwave conditions on Saturday as the favourites reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup. “It wasn’t easy. They used every resource possible. It is maybe not the kind of football that brings people to the stadium, playing with that aggression, exaggerating everything,” Deschamps told French broadcaster M6. Kylian Mbappe decided the game with a penalty in the 70th minute on a sweltering afternoon at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, following a foul on Desire Doue. Mbappe’s goal was his seventh so far at the tournament, pulling him level again with Lionel Messi as the joint-leading scorer. Before that, it had been a frustrating afternoon for Les Bleus, and a sharp contrast to their previous free-scoring matches at the tournament. France had scored 13 goals in their four World Cup outings prior to this game, but on Saturday they struggled to make clear chances despite totally dominating possession. Their most creative players – Michael Olise, Ousmane Dembele and Bradley Barcola – all found the going tough against a niggly Paraguayan team looking to cause another upset after ousting Germany in the last 32. “We stayed focused on our game. It was difficult, they had lots of men behind the ball and they defend well,” added Deschamps. “Obviously the temperatures made it hard to play with intensity and without that they defended well.” The match was played in the late afternoon heat, with temperatures hitting 38 degrees Celsius (100 Fahrenheit) in Philadelphia as the city marked the July 4 weekend and the 250th anniversary of American independence. Deschamps was also left perplexed that his team collected three yellow cards, while not a single Paraguay player was booked. “I am not going to criticise the referee but we finished the game with three bookings and yet there were a lot of things going on,” Deschamps said in his post-match press conference, as he suggested he and his team were subjected to verbal aggression too. “I won’t criticise Paraguay. Every team can play however they want, but I could do without the insults. “The most important thing is that there were no incidents at the end. But all that matters is that we have qualified.” Deschamps said he had to resort to using two of his strongest players to protect captain Mbappe against Paraguayan aggression towards the end of the match. “We kept our nerve and that is an essential thing. It doesn’t win you the game but it is important,” he added. “This experience will help us. After all, we have a lot of players who are playing at their first World Cup,” he added. “I wouldn’t say it had been easy for us up to now but now we have had a different type of game.” France move on to a quarter-final tie next Thursday in Foxborough, Massachusetts, against Morocco, who beat Canada 3-0 in the last 16 earlier Saturday. That game will be a repeat of the 2022 semi-final which France won 2-0, before they went on to lose the final on penalties to Argentina. “Morocco are one of the best teams. We played them four years ago in Doha and they also got to the Africa Cup of Nations final,” Deschamps said. He will hope his squad recover quickly from the Paraguay clash, and that key midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni comes back after missing Saturday’s game with a thigh injury. “We have a few days now to recuperate. We have some tired players and a few little knocks too.” Related Story Source link
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Brazil’s Neymar Jr. looks dejected after the match as Brazil are eliminated from the World Cup: REUTERS Neymar’s legendary career for Brazil is over, the forward said following the 2-1 loss to Norway in the round of 16 game on Sunday.The 34-year-old was emotional in an interview with TV Globo as he was in tears at the conclusion of the match in East Rutherford, N.J., where he scored Brazil’s lone goal on a penalty kick in stoppage time.”I tried, I tried. Now it’s over. I started here, I finished here,” Neymar said.He had made his first international appearance for Brazil in a friendly against the United States on April 10, 2010, at MetLife Stadium, the same venue as on Sunday, and scored in his debut.Neymar, if he indeed retires from suiting up for Brazil, finishes as the country’s all-time leading scorer with 80 goals. The legendary Pele, who recorded 77, was the only Brazilian in four World Cups before Neymar matched him on Sunday.Cafu had 142 appearances for Brazil, with Neymar’s 130 second on the all-time list.Neymar’s previous goal for Brazil came in 2023, the last time he played for the national team. Injuries have played a major part as he tore his ACL in 2023 and missed Brazil’s first two group-stage games at the 2026 World Cup because of a right calf injury.He entered as a substitute and played 15 minutes against Scotland on June 24 and came on the field in the 67th minute for the match Sunday against Norway.…
