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Live mountain stage updates from 12pm BST/1pm CEST Pogacar urges Tour overhaul amid heatwave | Mail Luke 1. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) 32hrs 17min 04sec 2. Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma-Lease a Bike): +2min 42sec 3. Isaac Del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG): +3min 27sec 4. Remco Evenepoel (Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe): +3min 30sec 5. Juan Ayuso (Lidl-Trek): +3min 34sec 6. Paul Seixas (Decathlo…

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As the Home Run Derby and All-Star Game take over Philadelphia, we take a spin around the majors with an awards watch, an Ohtani update and lots in between With more than half of the MLB season in the books, the baseball world has convened in Philadelphia for the annual All-Star festivities. What better time for owners and players to engage in Brotherly Love and figure out how to avoid the widely…

Squad perform one last ‘Viking row’ on palace steps Parade briefly halted by low-hanging overhead cables More than 100,000 fans flooded the streets of Oslo, Norway’s capital, to give their team a warm welcome, turning the heartbreak of their World Cup exit into ⁠a massive national celebration. A 2-1 ⁠extra-time defeat by England on ​Saturday brought Norway’s historic run to an end in the quarter-…

Midfielder thought to have £35m release clause Deal for Atalanta’s Éderson falls through Manchester United are closing in on the signing of Youri Tielemans from Aston Villa after their move for the Atalanta midfielder Éderson fell through. Jason Wilcox, United’s director of football, is in advanced talks with Villa regarding a financial package for Tielemans. The 29-year-old, who was part of Belg…

Over-by-over updates from 11am (BST) start at Edgbaston ‘Gutted’ McCullum sacked as Test coach | Email James Who likes fifty over cricket? C’mon, hands up, don’t be shy. What do you mean you don’t remember fifty over cricket? It’s the one in between the really long one and the really short one. It’s got elements of both, what’s not to like? Oh and there’s a World Cup in this exact format next yea…

Australia’s superstar striker returns to the US after a seven-year absence – and will find a vastly changed landscape When Sam Kerr last played for the National Women’s Soccer League’s Big Apple-adjacent club, it was called Sky Blue and the playing conditions were abysmal. The Australia striker spent three years (from 2015-17) accruing accolades for a team bereft of locker rooms or running water …

Filipino sensation has been embraced by her nation yet star power outweighs her career achievements … so far In the opening week at Wimbledon queues snaked around the grounds as fans lined up for the chance to catch one of the 32 second-round matches. Afterwards, they thronged the exit of Court 3 so densely that the eventual winner was preceded by two men in suits and panama hats struggling to cl…

⚽️ Latest news before first of the semi-finals in Dallas ⚽️ Player guide | Golden Boot | Football Daily | Email us In case you missed Jonathan Wilson’s encompassing yarn about the semi-finals, well, here it is: We’ve got our first email of the morning. Continue reading...

Zaïre-Emery confident Les Bleus will deliver in Dallas Deschamps to bring Tchouaméni into lineup if fit The France midfielder Warren Zaïre-Emery says his team want to exact revenge on Spain and banish painful memories of their exit in the Euro 2024 semi-final. France and Spain meet again on Tuesday in search of a place in the World Cup final, an even more glittering prize than the one Luis de la …

The Spain winger says three-year-old Keyne ‘means everything to me’ – and fans have taken him to their hearts He’s become a social media staple; captured on camera blowing kisses, joyfully cheering on his team and careening through the stands of stadiums. Standing at just a few feet tall, the tiny toddler has become the unexpected breakout star of Spain’s World Cup run. “This time around, the big…

After forming an almost paternal relationship with Lionel Messi and providing a rare sense of stability, Argentina’s unheralded saviour is on the verge of World Cup history On Lionel Messi’s ill-fated international debut in Budapest in 2005, when he was (very harshly) sent off 45 seconds after coming off the bench for swinging an arm at the Hungary defender Vilmos Vanczak, he received only two pa…

The young Australian finds success in the wave pool with once unimaginable aerial moves – but his future lies in the ocean It was the surfing trick that broke the internet . A year ago, Australian teenage surf prodigy Hughie Vaughan landed a never-before attempted air at a wave pool in Texas. The praise came quickly. “Insane,” said former world champion Italo Ferreira. “Is this AI?” asked America…

Head coach has no illusions as to the scale of the task and wants to start by reconnecting the team and supporters It was Andoni Iraola’s humility that made the biggest impression at his unveiling as Liverpool’s new head coach on Monday. Without fanfare or bombast the 44-year-old promised not to change as a result of landing the biggest job of his coaching career and also to connect with club and…

Only time will tell if the former Leverkusen manager will become yet another victim of the constant churn at Stamford Bridge If Xabi Alonso arrived at Chelsea under any illusions about the expectations awaiting him, they were staring out from picture frames hung around Stamford Bridge’s Drake Suite. During his unveiling as Chelsea’s new manager, on either side of the room hung large, gleeful phot…