Spielberg (Austria)

Formula One championship leader Max Verstappen won the Austrian Grand Prix from pole position today, clinching a third straight victory and extending his lead over title rival Lewis Hamilton to 32 points after nine races. It was Verstappen’s fifth win of the season compared to three for Hamilton, who dropped down from second place to fourth late on after going too wide on a turn and rolling over a kerb, damaging one of his tires. His Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas finished second ahead of McLaren’s Lando Norris, who clinched the fourth podium of his career.

TIGNES (France)

Pogacar retains Tour lead as O’Connor wins stage

Defending champion Tadej Pogacar kept a close eye on his challengers as he retained the overall leader’s yellow jersey in the Tour de France after the ninth stage, a 144.9km mountain trek from Cluses in the northern Alps today. Australian Ben O’Connor of the AG2R-Citroen team won the stage from the breakaway, ahead of Italians Matteo Cataneo and Sonny Colbrelli. Meanwhile, last year’s runner-up Primoz Roglic abandoned after failing to recover from injuries sustained in a third-stage crash and an exhausted Mathieu van der Poel, who wore the yellow jersey this week, also quit before his bid to win Olympics gold in the mountain biking event.

Tokyo

Serbian rower tests positive for Covid on arrival in Japan

A member of Serbia’s Olympics rowing team tested positive for the new coronavirus on arrival in Japan, the third Covid-19 infection confirmed among Olympics team members visiting for the Tokyo Games starting this month.

Saint George’s (Grenada)

SA beat West Indies by 25 runs, take series 3-2

Aiden Markram and Quinton de Kock shared a 127-run second-wicket partnership which set up South Africa for a 25-run win over the West Indies in the fifth T20 and a 3-2 win in the series. Agencies