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Carapaz Mist Tour de France due to gastrointestinal infection
8.11 pm: Richard Carapaz cannot participate in the Tour de France next week. The cyclist from Ecuador has a gastrointestinal infection, reports his team EF Education – Easypost.
Carapaz, who finished third in the Tour of Italy at the beginning of this month, suffered the infection during a training in Ecuador. He now stays in his home country to recover. “Our medical team, together with his doctors in Ecuador, has currently discouraged and competitions. That is why Richard will not participate in the Tour de France this year,” said EF Education – Easypost’s statement.
“We all sympathize with Richard,” responds team boss Jonathan Vaughters. “He came out of the Giro in a great form and put down record heights during the training. He sacrificed a lot to reach that level, so the timing really couldn’t have been worse. We know how much the tour means to him, so losing him so close to the game is a huge blow.”
Hockey players are celebrating win Pro League with victory in Belgium
6.01 pm: The Dutch hockey players have added their overall victory in the Pro League listening by beating Belgium 2-0 in Antwerp in their penultimate match. The team of national coach Raoul Ehren was certain of the title since last week.
Yibbi Jansen gave the Orange to the end of the second quarter out of a penalty corner, after which Fay van der Elst after the break doubled the score after a nice attack.
The Netherlands became the winner of the Pro League ten days ago without taking action. The Orange could no longer be overtaken due to point loss of Argentina and Belgium. The Dutch hockey players won the Pro League, which has been around since 2019, four times before. Only in 2022 did they have the victory to Argentina.
Oranje will play its last game of the Pro League again against Belgium in Antwerp on Sunday.
Shanice van de Sanden as a reserve with orange women to Switzerland
12.30 pm: Shanice van de Sanden goes to Switzerland as a spare player for the last days of the preparation for the European Championship. National coach Andries Jonker can still include the European Champion of 2017 in his selection next week was allowed to injure someone for the first group match against Wales.
Jill Baijings, Lisa Doorn and Regina van Eijk also trained as reserves in recent days with the 23-member European Championship selection of Orange. They go home in Zeist on Saturday after the closing training.
The football players will fly to Switzerland on Tuesday, where the first group match against Wales will be on the program in exactly one week.
11.26 am: The Dutch 3×3 basketball players have penetrated the semi-finals of the World Cup in Mongolia. Janis Boonstra, Noortje Driessen, Ilse Kuijt and Evelien Lutje Schipholt were 21-11 too strong for Australia. The semi -final and possible battle for the gold will follow on Sunday.
The Dutch women soon took a large lead and no longer dropped them. Just before time, Kuijt ended the game with a two -tunter. Canada, which won 11-10 against Spain, is the opponent in the last four on Sunday.
Orange is placed second behind China for the World Cup in Ulaanbaatar. The team, which started the tournament with two defeats and then won everything, never took a World Cup medal.
Jamaican Kishane Thompson sixth fastest man ever at 100 meters
09.55 am: The Jamaican Kishane Thompson is the sixth fastest man ever in the 100 meters. The number 2 of the last Olympic Games in Paris came in national selection competitions for the World Cup in Tokyo to 9.75, an improvement of his personal record with two hundredths. He walked that in the same place last year.
Thompson (23) remains at an appropriate distance from the world record of his countryman Usain Bolt of 9.58. Justin Gatlin (9.74), Asafa Powell (9.72), Yohan Blake (9.69) and Tyson Gay (9.69) also ran faster.
Thompson was Oblique Seville (9.83) in Kingston too quickly in the selection competitions. Seville is therefore the second fastest man of the season. The World Cup is in September.