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Tour de France 2025: Arensman holds off Pogacar and Vingegaard for solo stage win
Thymen Arensman rescued an otherwise anonymous Tour de France for Ineos Grenadiers with a solo stage victory in the final Pyrenean stage, to Superbagnères in the Haute Garonne. The Dutch rider, a close second to Simon Yates on the stage to Puy-de-Sancy, entered the final five kilometres almost two minutes ahead of his closest rivals and, despite being pursued by Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard, was able to hang on to take his first stage win in the Tour. Pogacar added 4sec to his overall lead, now 4min 13sec ahead of Vingegaard. With almost five thousand metres of climbing packed into 125km of racing, it was one of the most brutal stages in recent Tours and it took its toll, with Remco Evenepoel, in third place at the start of the day but struggling with illness, the most high-profile casualty. In wet and misty conditions, Pogacar was happy to let an earlier breakaway, which included Arensman, move clear, with Lenny Martinez, chasing yet more points in the King of the Mountains classification, also in the move. Crucially, the French rider was first over the mammoth and mist-shrouded Col du Tourmalet and harvested enough points to move into the polka dot jersey lead as the Tour exited the Pyrenees. Evenepoel, clearly at the end of his rope after Friday's time trial to Peyragudes, was drifting behind well before the peloton arrived at the foot of the Tourmalet, but as the 19km climb began, it became apparent his race was run and he quit the Tour. The Olympic road and time-trial champion will now not make it to Paris, scene last summer of the biggest successes of his career. Nor will Denmark's Mattias Skjelmose, who crashed after 53km and despite remounting, was forced to abandon, like Evenepoel on the lower slopes of the Tourmalet. An Ineos Grenadiers team car hit and knocked down a spectator during the stage, TV footage showed. The team car was in the middle of the road to the Col de Peyresourde, about 200m from the top of the ascent, when it struck the spectator, who was cheering the riders on. Sign up to The Recap The best of our sports journalism from the past seven days and a heads-up on the weekend's action after newsletter promotion This report will be updated shortly
BBC News
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Wales eighth at U20 Championship after Italy loss
World Rugby Under-20 ChampionshipItaly (15) 31Tries: Casartelli 2, Zanandrea Cons: Braga 2 Pens: Braga 4Wales (13) 23Tries: Davies, Boshoff Cons: Ford, Wilde Pens: Ford 3 Wales finished eighth at the World Rugby Under-20 Championship after losing 31-23 to hosts Italy in their last Ford and Francesco Braga exchanged early penalties at the Stadio Mario Battaglini in Rovigo, before Wales scrum-half Sion Davies went over for a converted two quick tries from Nelson Casartelli and Federico Zanandrea put Italy ahead, although Ford trimmed their lead to 15-13 at half-time with his second crossed for his second try early in the second half, but despite having Dan Gemine in the sin bin, Wales managed to earn a penalty shot for Ford to keep Richard Whiffin's side in the more Braga penalties nudged Italy into a 28-16 lead with 11 minutes remaining, before Wales had Harry Thomas sin-binned and then Evan Minto sent off after receiving a second yellow for a no-arms fourth penalty stretched the lead further for Italy, who finished with 13 men on the pitch after late yellow cards for Giacomo Milano and Nicola Boshoff scored a late consolation try for Wales, converted by Harri Wilde, to give the scoreline a better end the tournament having lost to Argentina and France prior to beating Spain in the pool stage. They were beaten by England in the fifth-eighth place play-off.
Reuters
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Arensman soloes to Tour stage victory as Pogacar edges Vingegaard for second
BAGNERES-DE-LUCHON, France, July 19 (Reuters) - Thymen Arensman of the Netherlands won the 14th stage of the Tour de France after a superb solo ride in the 183-km (113-mile) mountain trek between Pau and Superbagneres on Saturday. Slovenian Tadej Pogacar retained the overall leader's yellow jersey as he took second place by beating chief rival Jonas Vingegaard, in a two-man sprint finish 1 minute 12 seconds behind Ineos Grenadiers rider Arensman. Defending champion Pogacar extended his lead over Dane Vingegaard in the general classification by six seconds to 4:13 at the end of the Pyrenean stage. The day belonged to Arensman, however, as the Dutchman went solo from the day's breakaway in the penultimate climb to the Col de Peyresourde (7.1 km at 7.8%) before his team car hit and knocked down a spectator amid the usual roadside chaos on the Tour. Arensman never looked back and held firm on his way up to Superbagneres (12.4 km at 7.3%) as Vingegaard attacked several times in an attempt to drop Pogacar. But the world champion did not flinch and easily beat his rival in the final metres to further cement his domination.
