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- Mpox vaccine maker says 'better prepared' than in 2022
- Dyche fears Everton could have just 14 first-team players for Spurs trip
- Canada rail freight shut down threatens to disrupt economy
- Harris to take star turn at Democratic convention
- US existing home sales rise in July, ending downward trend
- Unbeaten Verstappen eyes 'very close' Dutch Grand Prix
- Protests as rebuilt tower opens at German church with Nazi links
- A divide opens in Ukraine over giving up land for peace
- Hammers boss Lopetegui will be glad to see transfer window shut
- Leverkusen coach Alonso says Bayern 'favourites' in Bundesliga
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- Verstappen eyes 'very close' Dutch Grand Prix
- Play resumes on second day of England-Sri Lanka first Test
- Taiwan sentences eight soldiers for spying for China
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- Key Indian hospital ends strike but doctor rape protests rage
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- Djokovic targets Slam record at US Open, Sinner under cloud
- Ceasefire hopes fade as Gaza fighting rages
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- England to host Zimbabwe in 2025, Lord's to stage first women's Test in 2026
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- Rain delays second day of England-Sri Lanka first Test
- War cook: Ukrainian soldier-influencer with fans on both sides
- Kenya police offer reward for escaped serial killer suspect
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- French court dismisses appeal in Agent Orange case
- War-battered Gaza faces uphill battle against polio
- Floods swamp Bangladesh as nation finds its feet after protests
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- Skiing in a Madrid shopping centre when it's 34C outside
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Tour de France: Who is saying what
After an eventful second week on the Tour de France with wins for both overall leader Tadej Pogacar and defending champion Jonas Vingegaard AFP takes a look at who has said what about the 2024 Tour de France race so far.
"I haven't won it yet, and I won't believe I've won it until I cross the line in the lead at Nice on the final day. But I think I finally cracked him."
-- Race leader Tadej Pogacar on his 3min 9sec over defending champion Jonas Vingegaard.
"Maybe some people don't understand our tactics but that's their problem."
Vingegaard scoffing at Pogacar's assertion that he was scared.
"It's only a few months ago my loved ones feared I was going to die," Vingegaard after edging Pogacar in a stage-11 mano-a-mano. The Dane suffered a collapsed lung and fractures in April.
"It's a good sign."
-- Mauro Gianetti, UAE Team Principal after Pogacar struck back by beating Marco Pantani's 1998 time to Plateau de Beille. The Slovenian is on course to complete the first Giro-Tour since Pantani, also in 1998. The Italian was later banned for doping.
"We have seen these past two years that Pogacar is capable of a bad day, maybe that will happen for a third year. I won't give up. I believe I can still win and I will do everything I can."
-- Vingegaard sends Pogacar a warning.
"You got the feeling they wanted a mano-a-mano like the good old days, so that later they could fight it out between themselves."
-- Bernard Thevenet, who dethroned his nemesis Eddy Merckx as Tour champion in 1975, was the first to propose an increasingly popular theory that Pogacar and Vingegaard conspired to distance Remco Evenepoel and Primoz Roglic.
"Everybody knows the first two guys are on another level. It's been relentless from kilometre zero but I haven't panicked and just rode my own rhythm,"
-- Third-placed Remco Evenepoel.
"Maybe the European teams may take more Africans. For now I'm the only one and I wish there were more black riders in the peloton."
-- Eritrea's Biniam Girmay after winning his third Tour de France stage on Thursday.
"I hope he's riding behind me."
-- Evenepoel feeling uneasy that veteran Geraint Thomas is continuing to ride despite Covid-19 symptoms. Evenepoel has worn a mask since the start of the Tour. Last season he caught Covid and had to quit the Giro while in the lead.
D.Kaufman--AMWN