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6 stories · Slovenia
Pogačar seals fourth Tour as Van Aert transforms the Paris finale
Tadej Pogačar completed a fourth Tour de France victory on 27 July, finishing 4:24 clear of Jonas Vingegaard after a finale won by Wout van Aert.
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Van der Poel's Roubaix treble follows Ferrand-Prévot's breakthrough
A weekend of solo winners ended with Mathieu van der Poel's third consecutive men's Paris-Roubaix, one day after Pauline Ferrand-Prévot became the women's race's first French champion.
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Slovenia defends men's ski-jumping team world title
Lovro Kos, Domen Prevc, Timi Zajc and Anže Lanišek scored 1080.8 points to retain Slovenia's team title ahead of Austria and Norway.
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Gukesh joins Tata Steel leaders as Caruana draws in round seven
Gukesh beat Harikrishna while Abdusattorov and Praggnanandhaa drew, creating a three-way tie on five points in Wijk aan Zee.
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Handball study finds athlete stress reports and blood markers tell overlapping stories
A season-long observational study cautions against treating questionnaires and hormones as identical monitoring tools.
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Finland wins first Biathlon World Cup relay as Minkkinen seals Oberhof victory
Seppala and Minkkinen won the single mixed relay on 12 January, giving Finland its first World Cup relay victory.
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