Tour de France riders passed coronavirus tests to confirm their good health only to endure numerous crashes along the Atlantic coastline when the race resumed Tuesday at Le De Re. Sprinter Sam Bennett prevailed ahead of Caleb Ewan to post his first Tour stage win, and Primoz Roglic avoided the many crashes that punctuated Stage 10 to keep the race leader’s yellow jersey. After the 105-mile ride from Ile d’Oleron to Ile de Re, Roglic maintained a 21-second lead over defending champion Egan Bernal. Frenchman Guillaume Martin was in third place, 28 seconds off the pace. Having performed 841 tests of all 166 riders and team staff over the previous two days, organizers gave all cyclists the go-ahead to start. But Tour director Christian Prudhomme was forced to abandon the race after testing positive for the virus. Also, four staff members from four different teams failed the test and were dropped from the race bubble. “I’m happy that the race goes on, it’s beautiful” Roglic said after the stage.
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The Navy football team wasn’t physically prepared to play BYU on Monday after not tackling during preseason practices and the result was an ugly 52-point loss. Coach Ken Niumatalolo took “1,000 percent” of the blame for choosing the extreme safety measures in practice in an effort to avoid a spread of COVID-19. That’s the scenario Temple coach Rod Carey wants to avoid. So, the football game between Navy and Temple at Annapolis has been pushed back two weeks from Sept. 26 to Oct. 10 at the Owls' request. “We saw this coming,” Carey said. “We saw this coming with the things that we have to do and haven’t been able to in practice. We saw this coming three, four weeks ago. That’s why I put these wheels in motion to move this back, buy us some time, get a planned pause here. Kind of re-bubble ourselves, if you will, because we’re not ready yet.”
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Big Ten asked to reconsider canceling fall season
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Charley Hull has coronavirus, out of LPGA major
Charley Hull of England has withdrawn from the LPGA’s second major of the restarted season, the ANA Inspiration in California after testing positive for the coronavirus. Hull Hull said she wasn’t feeling her best when she arrived in the California desert but chalked that up to jet lag, extreme heat and her asthma acting up. She was told of her positive test result on Tuesday morning and will self-isolate for 10 days … Two-time world champion Karsten Warholm of Norway easily won the men’s 400 meter hurdles at the Golden Spike meet at Ostrava, Czech Republic, although he couldn’t challenge the world record this time. Warholm clocked 47.62 seconds but said he’d been hoping to run faster after finishing the distance in 46.87 in Stockholm last month. That was the second best time in history, only 0.09 seconds behind the world record set by American Kevin Young at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona … Two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya lost her long legal battle against track and field’s rules that limit female runners' naturally high testosterone levels. Switzerland’s supreme court said its judges dismissed Semenya’s appeal against a Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling last year that upheld the rules drafted by track’s governing body affecting female runners with differences of sex development (DSD). The 71-page ruling means Semenya cannot defend her Olympic 800-meter title at the Tokyo Games next year — or compete at any top meets in distances from 400 meters to the mile — unless she agrees to lower her testosterone level through medication or surgery. The 29-year-old South African repeatedly said she will not do that reiterated her stance in a statement through her lawyers Tuesday … The start of the 2022 World Cup qualifying competition for CONCACCAF countries was postponed again because of the coronavirus pandemic, tightening the window to play the three stages and increasing the likelihood next year’s regional final round will not start on schedule.
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