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Van Aert wins Tour stage 4 in style and extends overall lead

(AP) — Belgian rider quite obvious that we were teammates, I did it. It was up
Wout van Aert won the trying something with the to me to finish it off."
hilly fourth stage of the team," he said. "I went full gas
Tour de France and ex- to see what would happen. I Van Aert picked up a 10-sec-
tended his overall lead af- went all out." ond time bonus and is now 25
ter attacking strongly on The 27-year-old Van Aert seconds ahead of Yves Lam-
the day's final climb on is considered one of the paert in the overall standings
Tuesday. best multi-skilled riders in and 32 seconds clear of two-
the world and is a former time defending champion
The Belgian rider kept the three-time cyclo-cross world Tadej Pogacar.
leader's yellow jersey for the champion and a one-day clas- Pogacar's rival Primoz Roglic,
Jumbo–Visma team after tak- sics specialist. the 2020 Tour runner-up and
ing it for the first time on Van Aert's teammate, stayed
Saturday. He also extended The Jumbo-Visma rider seventh overall and remained
his lead in the green jersey flapped his hands like a bird's nine seconds behind Pogacar,
contest for best sprinter. wings as he sat up on his bike. with both finishing in the
He crossed the line eight sec- main pack.
Van Aert shook up the pelo- onds clear of countryman who thrilled crowds with his Alps and Pyrenees are still to
ton when he surged ahead up Jasper Philipsen of the Alpe- After a travel day, riders tack- breakaway rides during three come.
the last of the five climbs — a cin–Fenix team, with Jumbo- led a sunny 171.5-kilometer intense days in Denmark,
900-meter ascent up Cote du Visma teammate Christophe (106.3-mile) route from the was again in the early break- Wednesday's fifth stage is a
Cap Blanc-Nez at a gradient Laporte taking third place in coastal city of Dunkirk to away — this time alongside flat stage for sprinters over
of 7.5 % — about 10 kilome- a sprint finish. Calais, where riders could see Anthony Perez. 157 kilometers (97 miles)
ters (6 miles) from the end. "This jersey gives wings. It the English coastline when Perez pulled ahead some 45 starting at Lille Metropole
was definitely a tough climb they arrived into the much- kilometers (28 miles) out and and going over some of the
He said he felt an early attack but this stage was very like- used port location. Van Aert Cort was caught by the pelo- feared cobblestones that fea-
was the best way to avoid a ly going to end up in bunch completed it in 4 hours, 1 ton shortly after. Cort picked ture on the Paris-Roubaix
mass sprint at the line. sprint," Van Aert said. "It was minute, 36 seconds. up more points in the pol- one-day classic.
"I didn't want to take the risk difficult to finish alone, but ka-dot jersey bid but much The race ends on July 24 in
of losing anymore. It was thanks to the work of my Danish rider Magnus Cort, more difficult climbs in the Paris.

Morgan scores twice and US women down Haiti 3-0

The United States appeared ship. The top two finishers in
Midge Purce also scored for to score on an own goal in each group earn World Cup
the United States, which the 78th, but Megan Rapi- berths. The third place fin-
has won the past two World noe was ruled offside. Purce ishers in each group advance
Cups. scored her fourth interna- to a 10-team intercontinental
Morgan opened scoring for tional goal in the 84th. playoff, to be held in New
the U.S. in the 16th minute Zealand in February.
with a heel flick off a pass U.S. coach Vlatko An-
from Mallory Pugh that got donovski praised Morgan The winner of the W Cham-
past Haiti goalkeeper Lara and said he was pleased with pionship also earns a spot in
Larco. the result, although there's the 2024 Olympics.
Morgan's second goal came things to work on before the Haiti has never qualified for
on a header in the 23rd min- Americans face Jamaica on a World Cup or an Olympics.
ute. Thursday.
"On the other side, we gave In the group's late match,
Haiti was awarded a penalty up a lot of opportunities, Khadija Shaw scored in the
in the 42nd but Roselord gave up a penalty kick. That's eighth minute and Jamaica
(AP) — Alex Morgan CAF W Championship. Borgella's attempt hit the something we're going to held on to defeat Mexico 1-0
scored a pair of first-half post and caromed away. Bor- have to do better and tie up a in the late match.
goals and the U.S. wom- The tournament determines gella was handed a red card in few things for the next game,"
en's national team de- the region's four direct berths the 45th, but video review re- Andonovski said. Canada, Costa Rica, Panama
feated Haiti 3-0 on Mon- in the 2023 Women's World scinded the call and she was and Trinidad & Tobago are in
day night in the opening Cup, co-hosted by Australia given a yellow. Eight teams are split into two the other group.
match of the CONCA- and New Zealand. groups for the W Champion-

Man United goes Dutch again to buy left back Tyrell Malacia

(AP) — Manchester United went of the past four seasons when Fey-
back to the Netherlands to buy its enoord had a best finish of third.
first player on Tuesday since Erik Whether Netherlands international
ten Hag arrived as coach. Malacia ever gets to play with Cristia-
no Ronaldo at Old Trafford is unclear.
Tyrell Malacia signed from Feyenoord
for a reported initial fee of 15 million Ronaldo was excused from return-
euros ($15.4 million) to compete with ing to preseason training on Monday,
England international Luke Shaw to with the club citing family reasons,
play at left back. United said Malacia and it is unclear if he will fly with the
signed a four-year contract. team to Thailand this week.
The 37-year-old superstar has told the
"This is a new chapter for me, a new club he wants to leave and seek Cham-
league with new teammates and a tre- pions League games. United will play
mendous manager leading us," Mala- in the Europa League this season af-
cia said of Ten Hag, whose Ajax team ter a sixth-placed finish in the English
finished top of the Eredivisie in each Premier League in May.