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31 July 2005
30 July 2005
29 July 2005
- Golf
- Ernie Els will miss the rest of the 2005 season with a knee injury he suffered while sailing.
28 July 2005
- Football: UEFA Cup 2005-06 First Qualifying Round, second leg. Teams progressing to the next round shown in bold.
27 July 2005
26 July 2005
25 July 2005
24 July 2005
- Cycling: Tour de France
- Stage 21, Corbeil-Essonnes to Paris (Champs-Élysées), 144 km (87.48 miles). Lance Armstrong wins his seventh and final Tour. Due to rain in Paris, the Tour organisers exercised their option to take the time for general classification purposes at the first entrance to the Champs-Élysées. The riders continued to race for the stage win and its associated time bonuses and points. Alexander Vinokourov wins the stage and a 20-second time bonus, allowing him to pass Levi Leipheimer for fifth place overall, after escaping from the peloton with 2 km left. Armstrong's overall time is 86h 15m 02s. The rest of the top ten are Ivan Basso at +4m 40s, Jan Ullrich at +6m 21s, Francisco Mancebo at +9m 59s, Vinokourov at +11m 01s, Leipheimer at +11m 21s, Michael Rasmussen at +11m 33s; however, Rasmussen was the overall winner of the polka dot jersey as the best climber. The remainder of the top ten in the General Classification was Cadel Evans at +11m 55s, Floyd Landis at +12m 44s and Óscar Pereiro at +16m 14s. Thor Hushovd wins the maillot vert for sprinters, Yaroslav Popovych wins the maillot blanc (white jersey) as top rider under age 25, and T-Mobile won the team classification. (LeTour.com)
23 July 2005
- Cycling: Tour de France
- Stage 20, Individual time trial, 55.5 km, starting and finishing in Saint-Étienne. In the Tour's penultimate stage Michael Rasmussen suffers a disastrous performance, losing his overall third place following a fall after 3 km, requiring four bike changes, and then crashing into a ditch. Lance Armstrong wins his first stage of this Tour, the twenty-second of his career, in 1h 11m 46s. Jan Ullrich was 23 seconds slower but moves up the General Classification. In the GC, Lance Armstrong leads the parade toward Paris tomorrow in 82h 34m 05s, followed by Ivan Basso in +4m 40s, Jan Ullrich in +6m 21s, Francisco Mancebo in +9m 59s, Levi Leipheimer in +11m 25s, Alexander Vinokourov in +11m 27s, Michael Rasmussen plummets from 3rd to 7th in +11m 33s, Cadel Evans in +11m 55s, Floyd Landis in +12m 44s and Óscar Pereiro in +16m 04s. (Le Tour)
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22 July 2005
- Auto racing:
- Ice Hockey
- Cycling: Tour de France
- Stage 19, 153.5 km (93 miles) from Issoire to Le Puy-en-Velay. A four-man group which broke away after 34 km made it all the way to the finish. Giuseppe Guerini (T-Mobile team) won in 3h 33m 04s, his second TdF stage win after Alpe d'Huez in 1999, followed within 10 seconds by Sandy Casar, Franco Pellizotti and Óscar Pereiro. In the provisional General Classification this stage pushes Óscar Pereiro into 10th place overall, the procession still being lead by Lance Armstrong (81h 22m 19s), followed by Ivan Basso at +2m 46s, Michael Rasmussen at +3, 46s, Jan Ullrich at +5m 58s, Francisco Mancebo at +7m 08, Levi Leipheimer at +8m 12s, Cadel Evans at +9m 49s, Alexandre Vinokourov at +10m 11s, Floyd Landis at 10m 42s and Pereiro Sio at 12m 39s. Saturday's stage is the 55.5 km individual time trial starting and ending in Saint-Etienne. (Le Tour)
21 July 2005
- Ice hockey
- The National Hockey League lockout officially ends as the NHLPA votes in favor of the new collective bargaining agreement by an 87-13% margin.(AP/ESPN)
- Basketball
- Cycling: Tour de France
- Stage 18, 189.0 km from Albi to Mende. In the stage ending on the airport runway at Mende, Marcos Serrano wins the stage in 4h 37m 36s, followed by Cédric Vasseur and Axel Merckx 27 seconds later. Cadel Evans, Lance Armstrong, Ivan Basso and Jan Ullrich finish in 11th-14th places at +11m 18s, followed by Alexander Vinokourov, Michael Rasmussen, Levi Leipheimer and Francisco Mancebo at +11m 55s. With only four stages remaining, the General Classification is Armstrong 3,254.5 km in 77h 44m 44s (average 41.664 km/h), followed by Basso at +2m 46s, Rasmussen at +3m 46s, Ullrich at +5m 58s, Mancebo at +7m 08s, Leipheimer at +8m 12s, Evans at +9m 49s, Vinokourov at +10m 11s, Floyd Landis at +10m 42s, and Christophe Moreau at +13m 15s. Rasmussen is confirmed at the winner of the King of the Mountains competition, however, he must finish the race in Paris on Sunday to officially claim the title. (Le Tour)
- Tennis
20 July 2005
19 July 2005
18 July 2005
- Major League Baseball
- Cycling
- Elite cyclist and former Olympic rower Amy Gillett was killed and five team mates seriously injured when an out of control car runs into the members of the Australian women's national team on a training ride. The riders were due to compete in the Tour of Thuringen. The start of the tour has been delayed until the 21 July as a mark of respect. (BBC)
- The final rest day for the Tour de France. Action will resume on Tuesday (19 July).
17 July 2005
- Major League Baseball
- The Kansas City Royals defeat the Detroit Tigers 5-0 in a game that is marred by a massive bench-clearing brawl in the sixth inning. It begins when Royals starter Runelvys Hernández hits Tigers batter Carlos Guillén in the helmet with a pitch, the third batter in the game Hernández plunks. The two exchange words, and both benches and dugouts clear. At first, only words are exchanged between the teams. Then, Tigers pitcher Kyle Farnsworth picks up Royals reliever Jeremy Affeldt and slams him to the ground, as shown in this photo, resulting in exchanged punches. When all is said and done, seven people are ejected — Hernández, Guillén, Farnsworth, Jeremy Bonderman, Emil Brown, Alberto Castillo, and Royals manager Buddy Bell. (Yahoo!)
- Auto racing:
- Golf: The Open Championship
- Cycling: Tour de France
- Stage 15, 205.5 km from Lézat-sur-Lèze to Saint-Lary-Soulan. The toughest mountain stage of the whole Tour. A dramatic chase over six mountain passes decimates the peloton as Ivan Basso, Lance Armstrong and Jan Ullrich pursue a breakaway group of six riders up vicious Pyreneean slopes. George Hincapie (Discovery Channel) wins in 6 hrs 06 min 38 secs, becoming the first member of Lance Armstong's team, other than Lance, to win a stage since 1999. Óscar Pereiro (Phonak) (+06 secs) Pietro Caucchioli (Crédit Agricole) (+38 secs), Michael Boogerd (Rabobank) (+57 secs) and Laurent Brochard (Bouygues Télécom) (+2 min 19 secs) were also in the breakaway. Ivan Basso (CSC) and Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) finish 6th and 7th, both in +5 min 04 secs, followed by Oscar Sevilla and Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile Team) (both +6 min 28 secs) and Michael Rasmussen at +6 min 32 secs.
- In the General Classification, Lance Armstrong picks up yet another Maillot jaune in 62 hours 09 min 59 secs, but Ivan Basso (+2 min 46 secs) leapfrogs Michael Rasmussen (+3 min 09 secs) into second place. Jan Ullrich is at +5 min 58 secs, followed by Francisco Mancebo (+6 min 31 secs), Levi Leipheimer (+7 min 35 secs), Floyd Landis (+9 min 33 secs), Alexander Vinokourov (+9 min 38 secs), Christophe Moreau is the leading Frenchman at +11 min 47 secs while Andreas Klöden is in 10th place at +12 min 01 secs. Monday is a rest day. (Le Tour)
16 July 2005
- Auto racing
- Boxing
- Golf: The Open Championship
- Tiger Woods scrambled to a one-under-par 71 and retain a lead that was reduced to two strokes after three rounds on The Old Course at St Andrews. José María Olazábal was in second place after a two-under-par score of 70. (The Open website)
- Cycling: Tour de France
- Stage 14, 220.5 km from Agde to Ax-3 Domaines. The Tour enters the Pyrenees, and the stage is won by Georg Totschnig (Gerolsteiner) in 5 hrs 43 min 43 sec, followed 56 seconds later by Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) who managed to completely drop the rest of his team. Ivan Basso (Team CSC) finished third in +58 seconds, with Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) +1 min 16 secs, Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner) and Floyd Landis (Phonak) both at +1 min 31 secs and Francisco Mancebo (Illes Balears) and Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) both at +1 min 47 secs.
- In the General Classification, at 55 hours 58 minutes 17 seconds Lance Armstrong increases his lead over Michael Rasmussen to +1 min 41 secs, with Ivan Basso (+2 min 46 secs), Jan Ullrich (+4 min 34 secs), Levi Leipheimer (+4 min 45 secs), Floyd Landis and Francisco Mancebo (both +5 min 03 secs), Andreas Klöden (+5 min 38 secs), Alexander Vinokourov (+7 min 09 secs), and Christophe Moreau (+8 min 37 secs). (Le Tour.)
- Poker
15 July 2005
- Baseball
- Golf
- At The Open Championship at The Old Course at St Andrews, Tiger Woods extended his lead in the event to four strokes, this day over sentimental favourite Colin Montgomerie. Jack Nicklaus, in what would turn out to be his final competitive round of golf as a professional, would miss the cut shooting a par 72, but will end his career after a birdie on the 18th hole and a two-round total three strokes over par. Also missing the cut was defending champion Todd Hamilton, shooting two over par. (AP/Yahoo! Sports)
- Michelle Wie lost her quarter-final match at the U. S. Public Links Men's Championship, and will not qualify for The Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia next April. (AP/ESPN)
- Cycling: Tour de France
- Robbie McEwen (AUS) won Stage 13 from Miramas to Montpellier (173.5 km) in 3:43:24. Lance Armstrong finished 33rd with the same time, and retains le maillot jaune as he keeps a lead of 35 seconds over his competition, Denmark's Michael Rasmussen. (OLN)
14 July 2005
- Golf: The Open Championship
- Tiger Woods leads after the first round at The Old Course at St Andrews with a six-under par 66. Jack Nicklaus, playing in his final competitive event at this year's Open Championship on The Old Course, shot a three-over par 75.(AP/ESPN)
- Baseball
- Football: UEFA Cup 2005-06 First Qualifying Round, first leg.
- Cycling: Tour de France
- Stage 12 of the Tour, 187 km from Briançon to Digne les Bains. Before the stage begins, maillot vert competition leader Tom Boonen withdraws from the race following his fall in yesterday's stage. 166 riders remain in the race. Appropriately for Bastille Day, the stage is won by a Frenchman, David Moncoutié (Cofidis) in 4 hr 20 min 06 sec, followed by Sandy Casar (Francaise Des Jeux), Angel Vicioso (LSW), Patrice Halgand (Credit Agricole), José Luis Arrieta, Franco Pellizotti and Axel Merckx, all at +57 secs. The General Classification remains unchanged, Lance Armstrong finished in the peloton in 41st place, 10 mins 32 seconds behind Moncoutié. (Le Tour)
13 July 2005
- Ice hockey: NHL labor dispute
- Football: UEFA Champions League 2005-06 - First Qualifying Round, first leg
- Cycling: 2005 Tour de France
- Stage 11 of the Tour, 173 km from Courchevel to Briançon. Before the stage begins, Italian rider Dario Frigo is excluded and arrested when performance enhancing drugs are discovered in his wife's car. In the first stage to have not one but two "Hors Categorie" climbs (the highest categorisation for mountains, indicating maximum difficulty), the Col de la Madeleine (2000 m) and the Col du Galibier (2645 m - the highest point of this year's Tour) T-Mobile's Kazakh rider Alexander Vinokourov wins in a sprint, just ahead of Colombian Santiago Botero. Lance Armstrong's group finishes one minute and a quarter behind, so the American keeps the Maillot Jaune, while its former wearer, Jens Voigt of CSC is eliminated for not finishing within the time limit.
- Armstrong remains 38 seconds ahead of Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank), and his next closest rival is Christophe Moreau. The only majorly movement in the general classification is Vinokourov making up some time on the leaders. The other jerseys have not changed hands, and the lanterne rouge, the last placed rider in the race (presently Iker Flores) is more than two and a quarter hours down on Armstrong. (Le Tour)
12 July 2005
- Baseball: MLB All-Star Game
- Football: UEFA Champions League 2005-06 - First Qualifying Round, first leg
- Cycling: Tour de France
- Stage 10 of the Tour, 181 km from Grenoble to Courchevel. In the first stage to have a mountain finish Team Discovery Channel powers Lance Armstrong back into the maillot jaune. Alejandro Valverde (IBA) wins the stage with Armstrong recording the same time. Michael Rasmussen finished nine seconds later. In the General Classification, Armstrong now leads at 37 hours 11 minutes 04 seconds, followed by Rasmussen (+38 sec), Ivan Basso (+2 min 40 sec), Christophe Moreau (+2 min 42 sec), Valverde (+3 min 16 sec), Levi Leipheimer (+3 min 58 sec), Francisco Mancebo (+4 min 00 sec), and Jan Ullrich (+4 min 02 sec). (Guardian), (Le Tour)
11 July 2005
10 July 2005
- Golf:
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- Cycling: Tour de France
- Stage 9 of the Tour, 171 km from Gerardmer to Mulhouse. After a breakaway of 167 kilometres, Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) wins the stage in 4 hours 8 minutes 20 seconds, 3 minutes 4 seconds ahead of Christophe Moreau (Crédit Agricole) and Jens Voigt (Team CSC) who takes the maillot jaune from Lance Armstrong. The peloton arrives 6 minutes 4 seconds after Rasmussen. The first maillot jaune wearer of this year's race, David Zabriskie (Team CSC) retires because of the injuries he sustained in his fall in the time trial in stage 4. Rasmussen also substantially extends his lead in the King of the Mountains competition, winning all 30 points in the Ballon d'Alsace for the maillot á pois. In the General Classification, Voigt now leads at 32 hours 18 minutes 23 seconds, followed by Moreau (+1 min 50 sec), Armstrong (+2 min 18 sec), Rasmussen (+2 min 43 sec), Alexander Vinokourov (+3 min 20 sec) and Bobby Julich (+3 min 25 sec). Monday is a rest day. (Le Tour)
9 July 2005
- Boxing:
- Cycling: Tour de France
- Stage 8 of the Tour, 231.5 km from Pforzheim, Germany to Gerardmer, ends in an apparent photographic dead heat between Pieter Weening (Rabobank) and Andreas Klöden (T-Mobile Team) in 5 hours 3 minutes 54 seconds, eventually awarded to Weening by .0002 of a second, the smallest victory margin ever. Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile Team) finished in 6th place.
- In the General Classification Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) still leads in 28 hours 6 minutes 17 seconds (earning his 71st maillot jaune, the 78-day record of Bernard Hinault looking increasingly approachable), followed 1 minute later by Jens Voigt (Team CSC), Alexandre Vinokourov (T-Mobile Team) 1 minute 2 seconds behind Armstrong, and Bobby Julich (Team CSC) 1 minute 7 seconds behind the leader.
- Two other jerseys changed hands today: Michael Rasmussen of Rabobank will wear the King of the Mountains jersey, the maillot á pois, and Yaroslav Popovych loses the white jersey for young riders to Vladimir Karpets of Illes Balears by one second.(BBC) (Le Tour)
- Rugby union: The British and Irish Lions'
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