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Sport in brief: August 4, 2025
Pauline Ferrand-Prevot from France of team Visma - Lease a Bike celebrates as she crosses the finish line to win the 9th stage of the 4th edition of the Women's Tour de France cycling race August 3, 2025. Photo: Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP

WOMEN’S CYCLING: Olympic mountain bike champion Pauline Ferrand-Prevot became the first French women to win the Tour de France Femmes after soloing to victory on Sunday’s last stage. 

She took the yellow jersey by 20 seconds from Demi Vollering with defending champion Katarzyna Niewiadoma a further three seconds back in third. 

Georgi Pfeiffer was the highest placed Briton, over 23 minutes off the pace in 53rd.

SPEEDWAY: Belle Vue captain Brady Kurtz won his third successive World Championship grand prix event after finishing two points clear of Freddie Lindgren in Riga. 

With two rounds to go, Kurtz is now just three points behind five-time champion Bartosz Zmarzlik, who finished off the podium behind local favourite Andzejs Lebedevs. 

The next round is in Wroclaw, Poland, before the season’s climax at Denmark’s Vojens track.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: Sheffield, the world’s oldest football club, are in Bradford tomorrow evening for the replay of their FA Cup extra preliminary tie with Albion Sports. Saturday’s match ended as a 1-1 draw in front of 344 spectators. 

Elsewhere tonight, Harlow Town, who reached the fourth round in 1980 following wins over Southend and Leicester, host Saffron Walden after they also ended up 1-1 in the first match.

CRICKET: The fifth season of the Hundred begins tomorrow with last year’s women’s champions London Spirit taking on the Oval Invincibles at Lord’s before the men’s match reverses the roles with defending champions Oval Invincibles up against London Spirit. 

Although similar to Twenty20, the Hundred sees each team scheduled to face 25-ball overs, with 10 balls bowled from each end and bowlers allowed to deliver consecutive overs.

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