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SPORTS Thursday 20 July 2017

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FISHIN’

Slovenia’s Primoz Roglic
crosses the finish line to win
the seventeenth stage of the
Tour de France cycling race
over 183 kilometers (113.7
miles) with start in La Mure
and finish in Serre-Chevalier,
France, Wednesday, July 19,
2017.
Aru falters,

Froome soars

in thin air

of the Alps

By JOHN LEICESTER and
SAMUEL PETREQUIN
AP Sports Writers
BRIANCON, France (AP)
— One series of giant Tour
de France mountains out
of the way. One more to
come. And one less rival for
race leader Chris Froome
to watch quite so closely.
By sticking like fly-paper to
the enterprising Romain
Bardet, despite the French
rider’s efforts to distance
him on the race’s highest
peak, Froome took a big
step Wednesday toward
a fourth Tour victory this
weekend in Paris.
Italian Fabio Aru, on the Nats edge Angels in showdown
other hand, fell behind on between Harper and Trout
the barren slopes of scree
and patchy grass in the
thinning air of the mighty
Col du Galibier, one of the Washington Nationals’ Bryce Harper reacts after getting
Tour’s most fearsome Al- tagged out at second trying for a double after a hit during
pine climbs. the third inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles
Like a yo-yo, the Italian re- Angels in Anaheim, Calif., Tuesday, July 18, 2017.
Associated Press
peatedly worked his way Page 20
back to Froome’s group of
top contenders.

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