The group with Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, center, rides during the fifteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 169.3 kilometers with start in Muret and finish in Carcassone, France, July 20, 2025
MEN’S CYCLING: Defending champion Tadej Pogacar holds a four minute and 13 seconds advantage over Jonas Vingegaard as tomorrow’s 16th Tour de France stage heads from Montpellier to Mont Ventoux.
Florian Lipowitz is a further three minutes and 40 seconds back in third with Scotland’s Oscar Onley fourth.
Jonathan Milan has a 28-point lead over Pogacar in the green jersey battle with Lenny Martinez the current King of the Mountains.
WOMEN’S CRICKET: England face India in Chester-le-Street tomorrow for the deciding leg of their three-match one-day series.
The English drew level at 1-1 after romping to an eight wicket (DLS method) win at the weekend.
Sophie Ecclestone took 3-27 as India reached 143-8 from their rain-reduced 29 overs before Amy Jones hit an unbeaten 46 and Tammy Beaumont added 34 in England’s 116-2 from 21 overs.
WOMEN’S RUGBY LEAGUE: The gulf in standards between the top and bottom four clubs in the Super League was yet again emphasised as Tiana Powell bagged four tries in table-topping Wigan’s 80-0 thrashing of bottom club Warrington, second-placed St Helens thumped Leigh by the same score, York brushed aside Barrow 58-0 and Leeds beat Huddersfield 54-12. Warrington have lost all eight of their matches, conceding an average of 62 points per game.
HURLING: Tipperary produced a dominant second-half performance to come from six points down and beat Cork 3-27 to 1-18 in Sunday’s All Ireland final at Croke Park, Dublin.
Right corner forward John McGrath scored two goals after the break as the Tipps rampaged to their second Liam McCarthy Cup win in six years while Cork, who haven’t picked up the silverware since 2005, lost their second successive final.
MEN’S FOOTBALL: Rangers begin their Champions League campaign at Ibrox tonight with the first leg of a second qualifying round fixture against Athens’ Panathinaikos.
The Scots are ranked as Europe’s 30th-best team, 64 places above tonight’s visitors.
Among tomorrow evening’s other ties are 1991’s European Cup winners Red Star Belgrade in Gibraltar to face the Lincoln Red Imps and Steaua Bucharest at North Macedonia’s Shkendija.
