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SPORTS Thursday 6 July 2023

Rain and environmental activists affect play on Day 3 at Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) ant,” Dimitrov said about
— Rain was again affecting the disruption after winning
play at Wimbledon on Day his match in straight sets. “In
3 of the grass-court tourna- the end of the day there is
ment, and environmental not much you can do. I
activists halted two match- think everyone in a way
es as well. did their part as quick as
Intermittent showers possible. I mean, rain was
Wednesday forced match- coming so it was also a little
es on the outside courts to bit fortunate to come off
be suspended twice, while the court and have some
play in the main stadiums time to kind of like regroup
was also stopped for a a little bit and shake it off.”
short time because of the Wimbledon increased its
weather. security in coordination
That didn’t stop top-ranked with London police and
woman Iga Swiatek and other agencies for this
defending men’s cham- year’s tournament, in part
pion Novak Djokovic from as a result of protests at
reaching the third round other major sports venues
in straight sets on Centre in Britain this year.
Court. But it did prevent The rain had already cre-
several other players from ated a major backlog
even taking the court, with of matches after the first
some first-round matches Frances Tiafoe of the US returns to China’s Wu Yibing in a men’s singles match on day three of the two days, and only eight
Wimbledon tennis championships in London, Wednesday, July 5, 2023.
pushed back until Thurs- Associated Press matches were complet-
day. ed on Tuesday. Several
Two Just Stop Oil protestors encounter between Grigor lay. The two protestors were court, another man repre- matches scheduled for the
were arrested after disrupt- Dimitrov and Sho Shima- arrested “on suspicion of senting the same organiza- outside courts on Wednes-
ing one match by running bukuro early in the sec- aggravated trespass and tion also threw orange con- day were pushed back to
onto Court 18 and throwing ond set, and the rain then criminal damage,” the fetti on the grass before se- Thursday.
orange confetti onto the came before the confetti All England Club said in a curity guards corralled him Only Centre Court and No.
grass, before being led off could be cleared. statement. and dragged him away. 1 Court at the All England
by security. The match resumed with A few hours later during the He was also arrested. Club have roofs.q
That stopped the first-round the others after the rain de- next match on the same “Obviously it’s not pleas-

Former Giro champion Hindley wins Tour mountain stage to claim

yellow jersey

The first mountain stage Vingegaard moved into a teammate of Pogacar, “I was surprised when I was full of twists and turns.
of the Tour de France pro- second place in the gener- dropped to fifth. part of the break, and the “I know Tadej, he never
duced a new race lead- al classification, 47 seconds Hindley was part of an early bunch didn’t really react,” gives up,” Vingegaard
er on Wednesday and behind Hindley. Pogacar breakaway and became Hindley said. “We decided said. “It will be a fight all the
firmly indicated that de- was sixth overall, 1 minute, the first Australian leader of to start working in the group way to Paris.”
fending champion Jonas 40 seconds back. Previ- the race since Rohan Den- and just have fun. Initially Hindley, who rides for the
Vingegaard has the upper ous leader Adam Yates, nis back in 2015. my idea was to just get a Bora-Hansgrohe team, was
hand in his duel with two- buffer to the other general part of a 36-man group
time winner Tadej Pogacar. classification guys.” that managed to escape
On his Tour de France de- Vingegaard perfectly from the pack early on. Fol-
but, former Giro d’Italia timed his attack after lowing several moves from
champion Jai Hindley took American teammate Sepp other contenders including
the yellow jersey after win- Kuss imposed a fast and ex- Wout van Aert and Julian
ning the 162.7-kilometer hausting tempo that took its Alaphilippe, Hindley at-
(100.9-mile) fifth stage that toll on Pogacar, who found tacked 4 kilometers before
also included a daunting out after the finish that his the Marie-Blanque summit.
15.2-kilometer (9.4-mile) girlfriend had crashed dur- “On the Soudet I started
grind up Col de Soudet. ing the women’s Giro in It- thinking about a stage win,
Vingegaard made the aly, and may have suffered at the bottom of the climb I
most of the brutal climb of a concussion. “It’s a bit also saw my parents which
Marie-Blanque, the third more of a sad news than was really special and
and last ascent of the day, losing 50 seconds to Jonas, emotional,” Hindley said.
to launch a sharp attack or 1 minute,” Pogacar said. “When I attacked, every-
that was left unanswered Australia’s Jai Hindley crosses the finish line to win the fifth stage Vingegaard stopped short thing went so fast, I knew I
by Pogacar. of the Tour de France cycling race over 163 kilometers (101 of celebrating, perfectly had a good chance, but I
“He was just stronger to- miles) with start in Pau and finish in Laruns, France, Wednesday, aware that the Tour is a only started really believing
day,” Pogacar said. July 5, 2023. three-week race of attrition on the home straight.”q
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