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Pogačar withstands Vingegaard's attacks to keep yellow jersey after Tour's monster mountain stage
Ecuador's Jhonatan Narvaez and Britain's Adam Yates, first and second, set the pace for their leader Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, during the eighteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 171.5 kilometers (106.6 miles) with start in Vif and finish in Courchevel Col de la Loze, France, Thursday, July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) Britain's Adam Yates sets the pace for his leader Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, followed by Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard during the eighteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 171.5 kilometers (106.6 miles) with start in Vif and finish in Courchevel Col de la Loze, France, Thursday, July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) Australia's Ben O'Connor crosses the finish line to win the eighteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 171.5 kilometers (106.6 miles) with start in Vif and finish in Courchevel Col de la Loze, France, Thursday, July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy) Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, climbs during the eighteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 171.5 kilometers (106.6 miles) with start in Vif and finish in Courchevel Col de la Loze, France, Thursday, July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) Australia's Ben O'Connor crosses the finish line to win the eighteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 171.5 kilometers (106.6 miles) with start in Vif and finish in Courchevel Col de la Loze, France, Thursday, July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy) Australia's Ben O'Connor crosses the finish line to win the eighteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 171.5 kilometers (106.6 miles) with start in Vif and finish in Courchevel Col de la Loze, France, Thursday, July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy) Ecuador's Jhonatan Narvaez and Britain's Adam Yates, first and second, set the pace for their leader Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, during the eighteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 171.5 kilometers (106.6 miles) with start in Vif and finish in Courchevel Col de la Loze, France, Thursday, July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) Britain's Adam Yates sets the pace for his leader Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, followed by Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard during the eighteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 171.5 kilometers (106.6 miles) with start in Vif and finish in Courchevel Col de la Loze, France, Thursday, July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) Australia's Ben O'Connor crosses the finish line to win the eighteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 171.5 kilometers (106.6 miles) with start in Vif and finish in Courchevel Col de la Loze, France, Thursday, July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy) Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, climbs during the eighteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 171.5 kilometers (106.6 miles) with start in Vif and finish in Courchevel Col de la Loze, France, Thursday, July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) Australia's Ben O'Connor crosses the finish line to win the eighteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 171.5 kilometers (106.6 miles) with start in Vif and finish in Courchevel Col de la Loze, France, Thursday, July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy) COURCHEVEL, France (AP) — Ben O'Connor won Thursday's monster Alpine stage to the ski resort of Courchevel as three-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogačar responded to attacks from archrival Jonas Vingegaard and dropped him to cement his grip on the yellow jersey. With just three stages left before the race ends in Paris, Pogačar looks poised to retain his title, with a comfortable lead of more than four minutes over Vingegaard, a two-time champion. Advertisement Stage 18 featured three extremely difficult ascents, including the 26.4-kilometer (16.5-mile) daunting climb of the Col de La Loze up to the finish. At 2,304 meters of altitude, La Loze is the highest summit in this year's Tour. Two years ago, Vingegaard dropped Pogačar on that mountain on his way to his second Tour title but could not deal a decisive blow this time. Riding behind O'Connor, Vingegaard and Pogačar closely watched each other in the final climb. Vingegaard attacked his Slovenian rival but Pogačar responded with ease. Vingegaard and his teammates had also tried to hurt the defending champion earlier in the day in the Col de La Madeleine, but their effors left Pogačar unfazed. The reigning world champion never panicked and accelerated near the end to drop Vingegaard in the last 500 meters and increase his overall lead. ___ More Tour de France coverage: and
BBC News
9 minutes ago
- Automotive
- BBC News
Horner exit doesn't impact my future
Max Verstappen says Christian Horner's removal as Red Bull team principal has no impact on the decision about his own was sacked three days after the British Grand Prix, and has been replaced by Frenchman Laurent Mekies, formerly boss of second team Racing speaking publicly about the changes for the first time, said: "I don't think it will matter at all for my decision in the future."The only thing that matters is that we work on the car and make it as fast as we can make it, really."The four-time champion also appeared to hint he will stay at Red Bull beyond this season. Verstappen is contracted to Red Bull until 2028, but has mechanisms in his contract that could allow him to leave in particular circumstances - the details of which are not public - and is being courted by Mercedes."The last one and a half years have not been what we want to be," admitted the 27-year-old. "Now we try to be more competitive this year a little bit, but for sure also with the new regulations." F1 is introducing new chassis and engine rules for 2026, and it was the general belief in the sport that Mercedes will be best prepared for the revised power-units that could have motivated the Dutchman to addition, Red Bull have slipped from competitiveness since the middle of last season - Verstappen lifted his fourth consecutive world title in 2024, but won only twice in the final 13 year, he is third in the championship at the halfway point of the season, 69 points behind the leader, McLaren's Oscar Piastri, having won just twice in 12 grands prix. Red Bull are fourth in the constructors' championship behind McLaren, Ferrari and whether there was a possibility he would not be driving for Red Bull next year, Verstappen said: "There's also a possibility I don't wake up tomorrow. So then there is no driving at all. So, life is unpredictable."But in general, I'm very happy where I'm at - and I hope. That was still the target that was set out when we signed the new deal, you know, that I would drive until the end of my career."Commenting on Horner's departure, he added: "Management decided they wanted to steer the ship in a different direction, probably. And then everyone else, of course, has to anyway agree to that and look forward."And I am looking forward. Of course, I had already quite a few meetings with Laurent as well."You know, the last two weeks have been quite intense for him to jump in. But, yeah, I'm equally also excited for the team now moving forward because that's what we have to do. You know, looking back, it doesn't make sense. It's not going to make you faster."Asked whether he was surprised by Horner's sacking as team principal after 20 years, Verstappen said: "Surprised. I mean, at the end of the day, in this world, things like that, they can happen."And when they told me, it's not like they just said, 'this is what we just decided', and then they hung up the phone. You know, you have a conversation about it."I don't need to go into detail what they said but it was, 'OK, if you guys think that this is the way forward, I'm the driver, you can decide, and this is how we're going to do it'."In the wake of reports the Red Bull factory in Milton Keynes had been unsettled by Horner's exit, Verstappen said: "It's been good. Of course, when there's a change like that, on the first day, people are a bit like, 'OK, what's happening?'"But, luckily also, I think basically the day after the announcement, I was at the factory doing my simulator stuff."You just go back to work. We have to work on performance, setting up the car here, making sure that everything is correlated in the best way possible."Verstappen was also asked about the tension that had existed between Horner and his father Jos Verstappen in the past 18 months, which was exacerbated by the accusations of sexual harassment and coercive, controlling behaviour made against Horner by a female internal Red Bull investigations dismissed the allegations and the 51-year-old has always denied them, although the ultimate resolution to them is yet to added: "People can have a difference of opinion now and then, and I actually expect that to happen because if everyone always agrees there is a problem. You need to have a difference of opinion. And, yeah, that's now something that we work with in a different direction."
Vogue
9 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Paris Fashion Week Unveils Busy Schedule Ahead of High-Stakes Season
This article originally appeared on Vogue Business. To receive the Vogue Business newsletter, sign up here. Get as much rest as you can this summer: the official Paris Fashion Week schedule is out and it's packed like a summer suitcase. Altogether, the Spring 2026 women's ready-to-wear calendar, which will run from September 29 to October 7, features a total of 76 shows and 36 presentations—compared to a respective 66 and 40 during the spring 2025 season. Jonathan Anderson's womenswear debut at Dior (following his men's show in June) will take place on October 1 at 2:30pm, while Matthieu Blazy's much-anticipated first show at Chanel will be held on October 6 at 8pm. Behind the scenes at Chanel SS25. Photo: Acielle/Style Du Monde As previously reported, it's a high-stakes season with an unprecedented number of designer debuts against a backdrop of an industry downturn. Will these renewed creative visions help the industry to rebound? There's an impressive number of brands returning to the calendar. They include Thom Browne (who hasn't shown during ready-to-wear in Paris since September 2022), Lanvin (which chose the eve of couture for Peter Copping's debut last season), Vetements and Agnès b. The flurry of debuts include Loewe, Jean Paul Gaultier, Carven and Mugler. There are also the 'half debuts': the first ready-to-wear show of Glenn Martens at Margiela after impressing with his couture and Michael Rider's summer 2026 collection at Celine after his July co-ed debut, which was a 'spring' (or resort) collection, per the house verbiage. 'I believe in the calendar,' Rider said backstage in July. (His predecessor Hedi Slimane had been showing mostly off-calendar via a video format.)
Reuters
9 minutes ago
- Sport
- Reuters
Australian O'Connor wins Tour de France stage 18, Pogacar extends overall lead
COURCHEVEL, France, July 24 (Reuters) - Australian Ben O'Connor of the Jayco AlUla team won the 18th stage of the Tour de France, a 171.5-km mountain trek between Vif and the Col de la Loze on Thursday. Slovenian Tadej Pogacar finished second and retained the overall leader's yellow jersey, stretching his advantage over chief rival Jonas Vingegaard, who came up third, by 11 seconds to 4:26.
CBS News
9 minutes ago
- General
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Wallabies escape enclosure in Belgium, sparking police chase spanning 2 countries
Two runaway wallabies sparked a cross-border chase in Belgium and France, with police and firefighters hot on the heels of the fast-hopping marsupials. Firemen captured one of the fugitives on Tuesday near the northern French city of Lille, days after the pair broke out of their enclosure in the border town of Mouscron, Belgium. But its accomplice was still unaccounted for Thursday at noon. "The other wallaby is currently still on the run and remains nowhere to be found," the city of Mouscron said in a social media post. The escape took place while their owner was on vacation overseas and had entrusted the care of the animals to a neighbor, said Belgian police. "We are not combing the area to find it, it could be anywhere," a Mouscron police spokeswoman told AFP. "We are mainly waiting for a local resident who might spot him to report his location." The bouncing duo went on the loose over the weekend and sightings soon spread across the region. Footage of the animals hopping around urban areas, at times scared by passing motorists, went viral on social media. "Thank you for doing everything you can to find these poor animals," an internet user commented on the Mouscron police Facebook page. The fire department in France's Nord district mused that the marsupials had "suddenly decided to explore the world around them, far from the Australian plains, closer to the urban jungle." Firefighters in Wattrelos, France, eventually cornered one of the escapees on Tuesday evening after it ventured into the garden of a residential building. "An anti-escape net was deployed to prevent the marsupial from making a run for it," the fire service said. "Indeed, the main fear was that the animal could cause an accident or injure itself." It took wildlife specialists two hours to get the wallaby safely inside a cage. It was then "returned to its kingdom, that of Belgium" and freed back into its enclosure, the fire department said. Images posted to social media by officials show the captured marsupial being put in a cage to be transported away. Wallabies, a smaller member of the kangaroo family, are native of Australia, and the country's rugby team is nicknamed after them. Owning wallabies and other exotic animals is allowed in Belgium as long as they are fed, cared for and not mistreated. Fugitive marsupials have made headlines in the U.S. recently. In April, a runaway kangaroo named Sheila shut down a stretch of interstate in Alabama, causing two vehicles to crash before being captured. A few weeks later, police in Durango, Colorado, captured a kangaroo that escaped from its home. Authorities said it was the same kangaroo that escaped and hopped through downtown in October 2024, before officers captured it.
