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Daily Tribune
10 hours ago
- Sport
- Daily Tribune
Onley pips Almeida to Tour of Switzerland fifth stage win
Scottish rider Oscar Onley won the fifth stage of the Tour of Switzerland yesterday by a tyre's length from Joao Almeida after an uphill sprint. The 22-year- old Onley claimed the second major win of his career at the end of a mountainous 183.5km from La Punt to Sant Maria with a head-to-head battle to the line. 'I felt good, and just gave it a go on the last climb,' Onley said. 'I don't win often and I've had a quite a few podiums so far this year, or quite close results, so to pull it off today is really nice for myself and my teammates, because they do a really good job every day, today was no different. 'It's nice to be able to pay them back now and a again,' he added. Austrian Felix Gall was third 23 seconds behind the Picnic PostNL youngster. Frenchman Kevin Vauquelin took the overall lead from compatriot Romain Gregoire, who struggled and finished more than six minutes behind Onley. Two-time former world champion Julian Alaphilippe moved to second, 29 seconds behind Vauquelin with Portuguese rider Almeida third and Onley fourth. It was an emotional day of racing held in memory of Gino Maeder, a 26-year-old Swiss rider who died of his injuries following a high-speed crash on a descent on the 2023 Tour of Switzerland.
Irish Examiner
14 hours ago
- Sport
- Irish Examiner
Your sport on TV this week: Lions v Argentina, Kerry take on Cavan and Cork face Dublin
Don't Miss: The All-Ireland SHC continues this weekend with Limerick taking on Dublin followed by Tipperary and Galway on Saturday in the quarter-finals. Watch the games live on RTÉ 2. Set the Sky Box: The 2025 British and Irish Lions tour kicks off when they face Argentina in the first ever game to be played in Ireland. The Aviva Stadium is sold out with six Irish involved in the match day squad. Connacht's Bundee Aki and Finlay Bealham alongside Munster's Tadhg Beirne are in the starting XV with Leinster's Ronan Kelleher and Tadhg Furlong and Connacht's Mack Hansen named on the bench. Lions captain Maro Itjoe will lead the side out for the historic clash. The game will be shown live on TG4 and Sky Sports Action. Streaming Pick: The All-Ireland SFC is entering the business end of the season with the first knock out games as the preliminary quarter-finals kick off on Saturday. First up is Kerry when they welcome Cavan with Dublin and Cork next on Saturday. Sunday sees Down facing Galway and then the final clash of the weekend with Donegal taking on Louth. Watch all the games live on GAA+. Sports Calendar: For all your sport throughout the year, check out our sports calendar. 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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Welshman Thomas out of Tour of Switzerland as 'precautionary measure'
Former Tour de France champion Geraint Thomas has withdrawn from the rest of the Tour of Switzerland, his Ineos Grenadiers teams announced on Wednesday. Thomas fell on the third stage of racing in Switzerland on Tuesday and complained of a dead leg afterwards, less than three weeks out from the start of this season's Tour de France. Advertisement The 39-year-old finished more than 15 minutes behind stage winner Quinn Simmons. The Welshman will end his career this season and is set to feature on this year's Tour de France, which he won in 2018. "Following a crash during stage three of the #TourdeSuisse, @GeraintThomas86 will not take the start today as a precautionary measure," Ineos said on social media. The eight-day Tour of Switzerland is the final significant stage race before the start of the Tour de France on July 5 in Lille. iwd/bsp
France 24
2 days ago
- Sport
- France 24
Welshman Thomas out of Tour of Switzerland as 'precautionary measure'
Thomas fell on the third stage of racing in Switzerland on Tuesday and complained of a dead leg afterwards, less than three weeks out from the start of this season's Tour de France. The 39-year-old finished more than 15 minutes behind stage winner Quinn Simmons. The Welshman will end his career this season and is set to feature on this year's Tour de France, which he won in 2018. "Following a crash during stage three of the #TourdeSuisse, @GeraintThomas86 will not take the start today as a precautionary measure," Ineos said on social media. The eight-day Tour of Switzerland is the final significant stage race before the start of the Tour de France on July 5 in Lille. © 2025 AFP
Straits Times
08-05-2025
- Sport
- Straits Times
CAS confirms doping ban for Colombian rider Miguel Angel Lopez
– Colombian cyclist Miguel Angel Lopez, third in the Giro and the Vuelta in 2018, will have to serve his four-year ban for doping in full after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected his appeal on May 7. CAS rubber-stamped the suspension imposed by the sport's governing body the International Cycling Union (UCI) on the 31-year-old in May 2024 – backdated to July 25, 2023. Lopez, who won the Tour of Switzerland in 2016 and the Tour of Catalonia in 2019, tested positive for Menotropin – a hormone which shares properties with growth hormone – and was found to be in possession of it during the 2022 Giro. 'The Panel is comfortably satisfied that UCI has discharged its burden of proof and unanimously ruled that Mr Lopez possessed a prohibited substance,' read the statement from CAS. 'The Appeal filed by Mr Lopez is dismissed and the decision issued by the UCI is fully upheld. Mr Lopez remains suspended for a period of ineligibility of four years, commencing on July 25, 2023.' Lopez's suspension is backdated to his provisional suspension by the UCI. The UCI suspended him after obtaining evidence from police in Spain and the Spanish National Anti-Doping Organisation. Up to when he was first suspended, Lopez had been riding for third division Team Medellin-EPM, after being fired by the Astana outfit in December 2022. Astana claimed he had links to Marcos Maynar, a Spanish doctor at the heart of a doping investigation at the time by the International Testing Agency. He had already been provisionally suspended for a week by his team after being arrested at Madrid airport in July 2022. In athletics, Brazilian Daniel Do Nascimento, who holds the marathon area record for the Americas, has been banned for five years after two positive doping tests, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on May 7. The AIU ban is backdated to July 15, 2024, with all results scrubbed from July 4 of the same year, the date of his first positive test for prohibited anabolic steroids rostanolone, metenolone and nandrolone. Do Nascimento, 26, set an Americas area record of 2hr 04min 51sec at the Seoul marathon in 2022. AFP Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
