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2-time Tour winner

Alberto Contador

to retire after Vuelta

MADRID (AP) — Two-time
Tour de France winner Al-
berto Contador will retire
next month after riding in
the Spanish Vuelta.
Contador announced his
plan to stop racing on a
video posted Monday on
Instagram. The Spanish rid-
er said the Vuelta “will be
my last race as a profes-
sional cyclist.”
“It’s a decision that I have
thought (about) very well
and I don’t think there is
a better farewell than in
the home race and in my
country,” he said. Spain’s Alberto Contador
The three-week Vuelta climbs breakaway during the
starts Aug. 19. Second only seventeenth stage of the Tour Kenya’s Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon, left, celebrates after winning the gold medal when cross-
de France cycling race over
to five-time Tour winner 183 kilometers (113.7 miles) ing the line ahead of South Africa’s Caster Semenya, bronze, and United States’ Jennifer Simpson,
silver, right, in the women’s 1500-meter final during the World Athletics Championships in London
Miguel Indurain in Spanish with start in La Mure and finish Monday, Aug. 7, 2017.
cycling lore, the 34-year- in Serre-Chevalier, France,
old Contador has been Wednesday, July 19, 2017.
one of the sport’s top rid- Associated Press Food poisoning takes Isaac
ers for the last decade in a
contentious career. ever won the three grand Makwala out of 200 at worlds
He accumulated seven tours. Contador won the
grand tour titles, winning Tour de France in 2007 and
the Spanish Vuelta three 2009. But in 2012 he was By RAF CASERT the semifinals of the 200 mar Rojas edged Olympic
times and the Giro d’Italia stripped of a third Tour title AP Sports Writer and is the favorite for gold champion Caterine Ibar-
twice. from 2010 and banned for LONDON (AP) — Several in Usain Bolt’s absence. guen by two centimeters to
Only five other riders have two years for doping.q athletes have come down Although Van Niekerk has give Venezuela its first ever
with a stomach bug at a strong chance for double world title.
the world championships, gold, South African team- In a seesaw battle, Rojas
including medal favorite mate Semenya missed out finally came out on top of
Isaac Makwala of Botswa- on one Monday, finishing her Colombian rival with
na.Makwala pulled out of with bronze in the 1,500 a mark of 14.91 meters on
his 200-meter heat Monday meters. Semenya had the her penultimate attempt,
and later said he had food speed, but left it too late beating the defending
poisoning. to challenge for the title. champion’s earlier mark of
“There have been a num- She was in 10th place in 14.89.
ber of cases of gastroenteri- the 12-woman final going Anyone looking for a feel-
tis reported by team mem- into the last lap and fought good story would gladly
bers residing within one of back to medal behind have handed the 110-me-
the official team hotels,” Faith Kipyegon of Kenya ter hurdles gold medal to
In this file photo dated Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, Italy’s Sara Er- the local organizing com- and Jenny Simpson of the Aries Merritt, who had kid-
rani makes a return to Russia’s Ekaterina Makarova during their mittee said in a statement, United States. ney transplant two years
second round match at the Australian Open tennis champion- putting a dampener on the “A lot cannot go your way ago and was getting back
Former French Open 10-day event. “Those af- in a final, so to come out to the form that won him
with a bronze is amazing,” gold in at the 2012 Olym-
fected have been support-
pics in the same stadium.
finalist Errani gets ed by both team and LOC Semenya said. two-time It was not to be.
a
Semenya,
medical staff.”
Makwala wrote on his Olympic champion over Running in the outside Lane
2-month doping ban Facebook page that other 800 meters, now must con- 9, he finished fifth — well
athletes were also hit by centrate on her signature behind Olympic champion
the bug. event later this week to win Omar McLeod.
LONDON (AP) — Former mother’s breast cancer Makwala was expected to another world title, eight “I am back on the world
French Open finalist Sara medication. “I never took, be the main challenger to years after she won her first stage, that’s the main
Errani must serve a two- in my life and during my Wayde van Niekerk in both at the 2009 Berlin worlds. thing,” Merritt said.
month doping ban after career, any prohibited the 200 and the 400. The Kipyegon took charge in McLeod gave Jamaica its
testing positive for the substance,” Errani said 400 final is on Tuesday. the final straight when the first gold of the champion-
banned substance letro- in a statement. “I am ex- “Let’s hope they will al- others faltered to give Ke- ships after a disappointing
zole in a test taken in Feb- tremely disappointed but low me to run my final,” nya its second gold and start, when Bolt only got
ruary, the International at the same time at peace Makwala wrote. fifth medal overall in the bronze and Elaine Thomp-
Tennis Federation said on with my conscience and Van Niekerk certainly championships. son finished outside the
Monday. Errani blamed aware I haven’t done any- wasn’t affected by the In the most stirring final of medals in the 100 meters.
contamination from her thing wrong.”q bug. He easily qualified for the night, 21-year-old Yuli- q