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SPORTS Friday 18 September 2020

Richard Carapaz of Ecuador, center, Poland's Michal Kwiat-
kowski, right, and Spain’s Pello Bilbao ride in the breakaway
during the stage 18 of the Tour de France cycling race over 175
kilometers (108.7 miles) from Meribel to La Roche-sur-Foron,
France, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020.
Associated Press

Roglic tightens grip

on Tour lead as Sweden's Armand Duplantis poses for photos after jumping m. 6.15, the highest ever outdoor

mark, during the men's pole vault competition at the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea IAAF Diamond
Ineos gets first win League athletics meet in Rome, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. Associated Press

LA ROCHE-SUR-FORON, a former world champion Pole vaulter Duplantis breaks
France (AP) — Paris, and and veteran of seven Tours
victory at the Tour de who likely would have won Bubka's outdoor world record
France, are almost within other stages before now
reach of Primoz Roglic. had he not devoted much
The Slovenian rider safely of his career to helping oth- ROME (AP) — Swedish pole petition at all. This world re- in a really good place," the
negotiated the last truly er riders win the Tour title. vaulter Armand Duplan- cord is really unexpected 24-year-old said. "Just be-
mountainous stage of this Carapaz said Ineos' goals tis broke Sergey Bubka's and I am very grateful." ing able to talk about the
year's race on Thursday, for the day were both win- 26-year-old outdoor world Duplantis was a child prod- world record and being
moving a big step closer to ning the stage and put- record on Thursday. igy who broke age-group that close is an amazing
adding what would be his ting him in the red-spotted Duplantis cleared 6 meters, records on his way to join- feeling."
first Tour win to the Spanish jersey awarded to riders 15 centimeters (20 feet, ing the pole vaulting elite. Warholm was more than

Vuelta title he conquered who vacuum up the most 2 inches) at the Golden He chose to compete in- 1.5 seconds faster than
last year. Polish rider Michal points on the Tour's climbs. Gala Pietro Mennea meet ternationally for Sweden, Ludvy Vaillant of France,
Kwiatkowski won the saw- They did both. With Cara- in Rome with his second his mother's home country. with Estonia's Rasmus Mägi
tooth Stage 18, up and paz having secured the attempt, besting Bubka's He won the silver medal at third.
down over a leg-burning jersey on the ascents, the mark of 6.14 meters (20 last year's world champi- No fans were allowed in
succession of five Alpine Ecuadoran rider then gra- feet, 1 1/2 inches) set in Se- onships. World champion because of the coronavirus
ascents. His first stage victo- ciously left the win to his striere in July 1994. Karsten Warholm again pandemic and that affect-
ry at the Tour was also the loyal teammate who had Nicknamed "Mondo," Du- narrowly missed out on ed the lineups too, with the
first at this race for his Ineos helped him up the climbs. plantis already holds the Kevin Young's 28-year-old men's 100 noticeably lack-
Grenadiers team, a conso- "Basically, he decided," indoor world record of 6.18 world record in the men's ing some of the high-profile
lation prize after its leader, Kwiatkowski said of Cara- meters (20 feet, 3 1/4 inch- 400 hurdles but the Norwe- names.
2019 Tour champion Egan paz, who last year became es) set in Glasgow in Febru- gian keeps getting close. Akani Simbine won in 9.96
Bernal, withdrew Wednes- Ecuador's first Grand Tour ary — but Bubka's classic Warholm ran a meet re- seconds, ahead of Arthur
day having struggled since champion by winning the outdoor mark was viewed cord 47.07 seconds, less Cissé and Filippo Tortu, while
the weekend. Giro d'Italia. "He's an in- by many as the ultimate than three-tenths of a sec- double Olympic champion
By avoiding any mishaps on credible person." test. ond off Young's record of Elaine Thompson-Herah
a brutal stage that includ- "We are going to celebrate "World record — finally! It is 46.78 from the 1992 Barce- won the women's event in
ed a treacherous stretch of big time tonight because so cool," Duplantis said. "I lona Olympics. a world-leading 10.85.
gravel path that punctured we all deserve it after so wanted to get over these "It's my third best time ever Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda
the thin front tire of another many stages," he said. "We 6.15 so badly. Everybody and you know running low set a Diamond League re-
top contender, Australian put in a show today." kept talking about it, it was 47s on the regular is awe- cord of 7 minutes, 26.64
Richie Porte, Roglic has just Further back, in his own a big chip on my shoulder some," Warholm said. "So seconds to win the men's
two more stages to digest battle to keep the overall ... When I did it, it was more I'm really happy and this 3,000, beating Jakob In-
before being able to ride race lead, Roglic again relief than joy." season has been a good gebrigtsen of Norway and
into Paris on Sunday with kept Tadej Pogacar, his The 20-year-old Duplantis, experience for me." Australia's Stewart McSw-
the yellow jersey on his Slovenian countryman who was born and raised Warholm ran 46.92 in Zurich eyn. All three ran personal
shoulders to the finish. and closest rival, firmly in in the United States, came last year and bettered that bests, while Kiplimo and In-
Kwiatkowski finished arm- his grasp. Roglic surged agonizingly close on his first in Stockholm last month gebrigtsen also set national
over-arm with teammate ahead of Pogacar on the attempt before clearing with a time of 46.87. records. Italy's Edoardo
Richard Carapaz. They did dusty gravel track at the the bar on his second. The toppling of the long- Scotti was first in the men's
not sprint to the line, instead top of the day's toughest "It is crazy," Duplantis said. "It standing record appears 400 with a personal best of
crossing together, all smiles, climb, making clear that has been a long time com- almost inevitable. 45.21. Lieke Klaver of the
their faces caked with dust, he was in no mood to cede ing. Coming into the sea- "I'm quite used to the talk Netherlands also set a per-
with Kwiatkowski's front tire even seconds so close to son we did not know if we now and I just got to love sonal best of 50.98 to win
just ahead. Kwiatkowski is the finish in Paris.q were able to do any com- it because it shows that I'm the women's race.q