Hansi Flick has been sacked as Germany manager following Saturday’s 4-1 friendly defeat by Japan in Wolfsburg. He becomes the first Germany boss to be sacked since the role was created in 1926. Germany have lost four of their past five games, with Flick overseeing just 12 wins in his 25 matches.
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Just 24 hours after a total capitulation on the Col d’Aubisque, Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) bounced back in surprising fashion to win stage 14 of the Vuelta a España. Evenepoel had been up the road with Romain Bardet (dsm-firmenich) for more than half of the stage to the Puerto de Belagua, and attacked his companion 3.9km from the top of the final climb to solo to victory
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Sepp Kuss held onto his Vuelta a España lead as his team-mate Jonas Vingegaard rode away to gain 34 seconds in the general classification and win a brutal mountain stage atop the Col du Tourmalet. Vingegaard saved his attack until 8km to go on the final climb, by then the GC contenders had one less rival to worry about as Remco Evenepoel had seen his Vuelta title defense crumble.
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UAE-Emirates provided their sprinter Juan Sebastián Molano with an expert lead-out for him to overturn the dominance of Kaden Groves and the Alpecin-Deceuninck team to win the sprint for stage 12 of the Vuelta a España.
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Jesús Herrada sprinted to victory from a giant breakaway of 26 on stage 11 of the Vuelta a España, attacking in the final 300m to glory on Wednesday. The Spanish Cofidis rider took his third stage win at his home Grand Tour with the win atop the La Laguna Negra summit, with his sprint on the punchy finish netting him first ahead of Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ) and Andreas Kron (Lotto Dstny)
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