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THURSDAY
Julian Alaphilippe Mist Clásica San Sebastián due to respiratory infection
13.46 hours: Julian Alaphilippe does not appear on Saturday at the start of the Clásica San Sebastián. According to his team Tudor, the Frenchman sustained an infection on his airways.
Alaphilippe won the Basque race in 2018 and finished second behind winner Marc Hirschi last year. “After the finish of the Tour de France in Paris last Sunday, Julian received symptoms of an infection on the upper respiratory tract,” Tudor reports. “After consultation with our medical department, it was decided that Julian will not participate on Saturday, so that he can concentrate on his recovery instead.”
WEDNESDAY
FC Utrecht at Voorbalen in Europa League against FC Servette
11.30 pm: FC Utrecht will find FC Servette from Geneva, when the club qualifies for the third preliminary round of the Europa League. The team of coach Ron Jans defends a 3-1 lead from the first game against FC Sheriff from Moldova on Thursday.
Utrecht would take on Viktoria Pilsen from the Czech Republic or the Swiss FC Servette in the third preliminary round. Viktoria Pilsen won 3-1 in Switzerland after Servette won the first game 1-0. The Czechs will therefore take place in the next preliminary round of the Champions League and Servette may find FC Utrecht in the Europa League.
Beach volleyball players to the intermediate round at European Championship
22.58 hours: The three Dutch teams at the beach volleyball players have qualified for the intermediate round at the European Championship in Düsseldorf. The three couples lost their first game, but won the second game.
Mila Konink and Raïsa Schoon lost the first match of German couple Sandra Ittlinger/Anna-Lena Grüne, but then won from the Polish duo Julia Radelczuk and Natalia Okla.
The couples Noa Sonneville/Brecht Piersma and EMI van Driel/Wies Bekhuis also end up in the intermediate round after a victory over two German duos.
The three Dutch men’s teams all won their first game at the European Championship. Matthew, after all, and Ruben Penninga, Alexander Brouwer and Steven van de Velde and the duo Stefan Boermans and Yorick de Groot will compete for the group victory on Thursday in the second group match.
Cas deals with Crystal Palace case on 8 August
7.13 pm: The CAS will handle the Crystal Palace case against UEFA on Friday 8 August.
Crystal Palace won the FA Cup last season and qualified for the Europa League. UEFA, however, put the English club back to the Conference League, because Crystal Palace would have violated the rules for ownership of several clubs.
Owner John Textor also has the French club Olympique Lyon in his hands and according to the rules of the European Football Association, clubs with the same owner are not allowed in the same European competition. Olympique Lyon also qualified for the Europa League.
Crystal Palace, which claims that Textor does not take decisions at the club, hopes it will be the same from the CAS. If that does not happen, Nottingham Forest takes over the location of Crystal Palace in the Europa League.
The CAS probably makes a statement on Monday 11 August.
Referees in Germany explain decisions in stadiums
12.40 pm: Referees in the Bundesliga and Second Bundesliga now lights decisions they make after watching video images in stadiums. That was decided after a successful trial period, reports the Deutsche Fussball Liga (DFL).
“After the positive results of a pilot project in nine stadiums in the second half of last season, which also received convincing positive feedback from fans and media partners, the technical requirements are currently being drawn up in all 36 stadiums,” said the DFL. The announcements of referees in the stadium must make the video assessment system more transparent.
The KNVB also experimented with this system last season. This happened, among other things, in the cup final between AZ and Go Ahead Eagles, in which referee Danny Makkelie explained, among other things, in a given penalty kick.
Steven Kruijswijk extends a contract with Visma-Lease A Bike
11.19 am: Steven Kruijswijk (38) will also be on board at Visma-Lease a Bike next year. For the experienced rot it will be the seventeenth season in paid employment with the Dutch formation.
Kruijswijk came from the training team at the main force of Rabobank, as the team was then called. He booked two wins – a stage victory in the Tour of Switzerland and the overall victory in the Arctic Race of Norway – but especially a rider. The highlight was his third place in the final classification of the Tour de France in 2019. In the Giro of 2016, which he closed fourth, he wore the pink leader’s jersey for six days.
“I just have a lot of pleasure in it and I feel very good again,” reports Kruijswijk via the team. This year he rode the Giro won by his British teammate Simon Yates. “There was again confirmed for me and the team that I am still of added value.”
TUESDAY
Arensman also wins professional round of Surhuisterveen after Boxmeer
11 p.m. Thymen Arensman has won the professional round of Surhuisterveen. The 25-year-old cyclist of Ineos-Grenadiers crossed the finish line. Just behind him, Jonathan Milan, the Italian winner of the green sweater in the Tour de France, won the sprint of Australian Ben O’Connor.
In the Tour de France, Arensman won the fourteenth mountain stage from Pau to Luchon-Superbagnères. He then also crossed the finish in the nineteenth stage to La Plagne. Milan won two stages in the mass sprint next to the green sweater. O’Connor won the eighteenth stage to Courchevel.
The day before, Arensman also seized the victory in the Boxmeer criterion. A year earlier, Tour winner Tadej Pogacar in Surhuisterveen won.
Goalkeeper Ter Stegen of Barcelona operated on his back
15.23 hours: Goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen of FC Barcelona has undergone a back operation. The Spanish club announced this. It is not clear how long the recovery of the 33-year-old keeper will take.
Ter Stegen experiences a complicated period. The Catalan goalkeeper was relegated by his coach Hansi Flick to the Barcelona reserve bank. Ter Stegen was in the interest of various European clubs to his injury. It is unlikely that Ter Stegen will make another transfer this summer.
Volleyball player Klok exchanges Lycurgus for German club
13.02 hours: Volleyball international Jeffrey Klok continues his career in Germany. The 26-year-old Libero exchanges Lycurgus in Groningen for Barrock Volleys. That club from Ludwigshafen comes out in the Bundesliga, the highest level in Germany.
The 1.89 meter long clock previously played for SSS from Barneveld and the Draisma Dynamo Apeldoorn, with which he became the national champion twice. The past three seasons he played for Lycurgus, which in May lost the final to the national title of Orion.
“Jeffrey brings stability, experience and quality to the team. He will help us enormously with his positive and communicative personality,” said technical director Michael Dornheim on the Barrock Volleys website about the son of former international Marko Klok.
SUNDAY
Bond trainer Markus Pekkola leaves Judobond
Markus Pekkola stops as a federal trainer of the best female judokas in the Netherlands. “It has been a privilege to be able to work with such a talented and dedicated team,” says the Finn on the website of the Judobond. “I am proud of what we have achieved together. I have great appreciation for the Judobond and wish the organization every success in the future.”
The Dutch Judobond appointed Mark van der Ham last week as the main union coach of the National Training Center (NTC). He will manage coaches and would guide the two Bond trainers Sirach Cooiman (men) and Pekkola. Pekkola and the Judobond spoke about a contract extension in recent weeks. But both parties have not reached an agreement.