July 2005 in Sports - 12 July 2005

12 July 2005

  • Baseball: MLB All-Star Game
    • American League 7 — National League 5. Miguel Tejada (Orioles, Alabama) is named All-Star Game MVP.
  • Football: UEFA Champions League 2005–06 – First Qualifying Round, first leg
    • Levadia Tallinn 1 – 0 Dinamo Tbilisi (UEFA.com)
    • Dinamo Minsk 1 – 1 Anorthosis Famagusta (UEFA.com)
    • Neftchi 2 – 0 FH Hafnarfjörður (UEFA.com)
    • Kairat Almaty 2 – 0 Artmedia Bratislava (UEFA.com)
    • Rabotnički 6 – 0 Skonto Riga (UEFA.com)
    • Sliema Wanderers 1 – 4 Sheriff Tiraspol (UEFA.com)
  • Cycling: Tour de France
    • Stage 10 of the Tour, 181 km from Grenoble to Courchevel. In the first stage to have a mountain finish Team Discovery Channel powers Lance Armstrong back into the maillot jaune. Alejandro Valverde (IBA) wins the stage with Armstrong recording the same time. Michael Rasmussen finished nine seconds later. In the General Classification, Armstrong now leads at 37 hours 11 minutes 04 seconds, followed by Rasmussen (+38 sec), Ivan Basso (+2 min 40 sec), Christophe Moreau (+2 min 42 sec), Valverde (+3 min 16 sec), Levi Leipheimer (+3 min 58 sec), Francisco Mancebo (+4 min 00 sec), and Jan Ullrich (+4 min 02 sec). (Guardian), (Le Tour)

Read more about this topic:  July 2005 In Sports

Famous quotes containing the word july:

    “People in Stamps used to say that the whites in our town were so prejudiced that a Negro couldn’t buy vanilla ice cream. Except on July Fourth. Other days he had to be satisfied with chocolate.”
    —Maya Angelou (b. 1928)