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Roglic imperial on Tour de France Stage 13 won by Martinez

PUY MARY, France (AP) — with the greatest total ele-
The slow-burning fight for vation gain of any stage —
the Tour de France's yellow a whopping 4,400 meters
jersey erupted in earnest on of climbing in all.
the remains of a once-gi- The effort was written large
ant volcano on Friday, with on the face of Bernal and
race leader Primoz Roglic other riders as they slowly
using its punishing slopes to lost contact with Roglic on
grow his overall lead. the Puy Mary, with gradi-
Glancing up the final ents of 15%.
climb that reared skyward "A hard day and a hard
ahead, Roglic told himself: climb," Roglic said. "You suf-
"Whoa, this will hurt." fer a lot."
But it hurt even more for the But he made it look easy,
Slovenian's rivals. showing how tough it will
"We were all on the limit," be to wrest the yellow jer-
he said. sey from him in the climac-
One of Stage 13's big losers tic last week.
was Egan Bernal, last year's "Every day is closer and
champion from Colombia closer to the end," he
who was unable to match said. "As long as you can
Roglic's pace on the ardu- gain time, every second is
ous final ascent of the Puy good."
Mary. Colombia's Daniel Felipe Martinez rides to win, ahead German Lennard Kamna, right, the stage At the start in the spa town
Bernal tumbled from sec- 13 of the Tour de France cycling race over 191 kilometers from Chatel-Guyon to Puy Mary, Friday, of Chatel-Guyon, just 1 min-
Sept. 11, 2020.
ond to third in the overall Associated Press ute, 42 seconds separated
standings and slumped ex- Roglic and 10th-placed
hausted across his handle- On Stage 7, he tumbled Bernal fell back to 59 sec- the stage victory by Roglic Spanish rider Mikel Landa
bars at the top. out of the top 10, having onds behind Roglic, the and other top contend- — the smallest Stage 13
Tadej Pogacar, the only rid- lost valuable time in cross- winner of last year's Spanish ers because they weren't gap between the top 10 of
er able to stay with Roglic winds. But Pogacar has grit- Vuelta who is increasingly threats for the yellow jersey. any Tour since World War II.
on the last climb, vaulted tily clawed his way back, looking the firm favorite to Martinez, winner of the Cri- But Roglic changed all that
from seventh to second showering the race with his win on the Champs-Elysees térium du Dauphiné race on the road. The gap be-
overall. precocious talent by win- in eight days. in August that served as a tween him and the new
He trails Roglic by 44 sec- ning Stage 9 and now cre- The intense stage, one of tune-up for the Tour, out- 10th-placed rider, Enric
onds. The Tour rookie, who ating the possibility of an this race's hardest with a sprinted German rider Len- Mas, is now 2 minutes, 54
will celebrate his 22nd birth- all-Slovenian battle for the no-respite roller-coaster nard Kämna at the top of seconds.
day the day after the race podium's top spots in Paris succession of seven as- the Puy Mary climb. French riders Guillaume
finishes and is also from if rivals can't halt their mo- cents of note, was won The 191-kilometer (119- Martin and Romain Bardet,
Slovenia, might even have mentum. by Colombian rider Daniel mile) trek through the hills who had been third and
been in the yellow jersey by "He's super strong," Roglic Martinez. He had been part and mountains of the Mas- fourth overall, respectively,
now had he not suffered a said of Pogacar. "Still a lot of a breakaway of lower- sif Central range was one tumbled out of the top 10
setback earlier in the Tour. of exciting racing to come." order riders left to chase of the toughest of this Tour, entirely.q

Pandemic forces changes in International Swimming League

The International Swimming short-course meters, while
League is making some the Olympics are swum in
changes ahead of its sec- long course.
ond season as a result of Among the big names miss-
the coronavirus pandemic. ing from recently released
The 10 teams, including rosters are Americans Katie
new additions Tokyo and Ledecky, Nathan Adrian,
Toronto, will train and com- Kathleen Baker and Simone
pete in Budapest, Hungary, Manuel, Penny Oleksiak of
from Oct. 16-Nov. 22. The fi- Canada, Gregorio Paltrin-
nals, likely to be in Tokyo, will ieri of Italy, Ippei Watanabe
be held in late December. of Japan, Anton Chupkov
The single-site training and of Russia, and Laszlo Cseh
competition schedule is a of Hungary.
concession to COVID-19. The expansion Toronto Ti-
Last year, the league held tans' roster includes Ca-
its meets in the U.S. and Eu- nadians Kylie Masse and
rope. It's not yet clear what Kelsey Wog.
coronavirus protocols will The new Tokyo Frog Kings, In this Dec. 20, 2019, file photo, swimmers compete in the men's 200-meter backstroke during an
International Swimming League event in Las Vegas.
be in place. fronted by retired Olympic Associated Press
Next year's rescheduled To- champion Kosuke Kitajima,
kyo Olympics and continu- include Ryosuke Irie, Kosuke gural season champion- won season MVP honors. $1,500 a month to over 300
ing uncertainty about CO- Hagino and Yui Ohashi. ship in Las Vegas, where The ISL earlier announced athletes from this month un-
VID-19 have affected the Paris-based Energy Stan- two world records were set. its Solidarity Program that til June 2021.q
rosters. The ISL competes in dard won last year's inau- Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden will pay a minimum of