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Tour de France 2022: Tadej Pogacar loses a third UAE Emirates teammate, this time to injury
•The 2020 and 2021 champion Pogacar has already lost climber George Bennett and flat plains specialist Vegard Stake Laengen, while overall leader Jonas Vingegaard has also lost two teammates.
Tour de France 2022: Leader Pogacar left with five teammates after two more pulled due to COVID-19
•Vegard Stake Laengen of the UAE Emirates team pulled out on Saturday and New Zealander George Bennett's loss means Pogacar has only five teammates left with 12 stages remaining.
Tour de France 2022: Tadej Pogacar teammate returns COVID positive; second case in a day
•The 33-year-old Norwegian Vegard Stake Laengen took ill overnight despite testing negative on Thursday morning; He is the second rider to be sent home following AG2R's announcement Saturday that their French rider Geoffrey Bouchard had been sent home for the same reason.
Tour de France 2022: Tadej Pogacar extends lead by winning stage seven
•Pogacar punished all his key rivals except Vingegaard, with Geraint Thomas losing 14sec and Adam Yates 29, as some riders dismounted and pushed up the punishing finale.
World Road Cycling Championships: Italy's Filippo Ganna holds off Wout van Aert to retain time-trial crown
•The 25-year-old Ineos rider defended his title by beating local favourite Wout van Aert (Jumbo) by five seconds in a carbon copy of last year's outcome.
Portuguese cyclist Joao Almeida wins Tour of Poland, Julius Van den Berg wins final stage
•Almeida will be joining Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar at UAE Emirates next season and winning three stages here showed why the gulf-state backed team swooped for his signature.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Novak Djokovic, Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar in action on Day 1 of medal events
•Novak Djokovic launches his quest for Olympic tennis glory on day one of the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games on Saturday as Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar goes for one of 11 gold medals on offer.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Djokovic begins quest for Olympic tennis glory as Pogacar eyes road race gold
•The opening ceremony took place before empty stands with Tokyo in a state of emergency, a scenario that will become a familiar sight with fans banned from all but a handful of venues.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: German cyclist Simon Geschke ruled out of Games after testing positive for COVID-19
•The other 12 members of the German cycling team were staying in the same hotel as Geschke but all have tested negative.
Tour de France 2021: Cycling's boy next door Tadej Pogacar is 'new Cannibal'
•On Friday, Pogacar was given the seal of approval from the man widely considered the greatest in the sport, the now 77-year-old Eddy Merckx, known as the 'Cannibal' because of his relentless hunger.