July 2005 in Sports - 21 July 2005

21 July 2005

• Ice hockey
  • The National Hockey League lockout officially ends as the NHLPA votes in favor of the new collective bargaining agreement by an 87–13% margin.(AP/ESPN)
• Basketball
  • Flip Saunders is named the new head coach of the NBA's Detroit Pistons. (AP/ESPN)
• Cycling: Tour de France
  • Stage 18, 189.0 km from Albi to Mende. In the stage ending on the airport runway at Mende, Marcos Serrano wins the stage in 4h 37m 36s, followed by Cédric Vasseur and Axel Merckx 27 seconds later. Cadel Evans, Lance Armstrong, Ivan Basso and Jan Ullrich finish in 11th–14th places at +11m 18s, followed by Alexander Vinokourov, Michael Rasmussen, Levi Leipheimer and Francisco Mancebo at +11m 55s. With only four stages remaining, the General Classification is Armstrong 3,254.5 km in 77h 44m 44s (average 41.664 km/h), followed by Basso at +2m 46s, Rasmussen at +3m 46s, Ullrich at +5m 58s, Mancebo at +7m 08s, Leipheimer at +8m 12s, Evans at +9m 49s, Vinokourov at +10m 11s, Floyd Landis at +10m 42s, and Christophe Moreau at +13m 15s. Rasmussen is confirmed at the winner of the King of the Mountains competition, however, he must finish the race in Paris on Sunday to officially claim the title. (Le Tour)
• Tennis
  • India's no. 1 female tennis player Sania Mirza crashes out of the $170,000 WTA Tour tennis event in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, losing to Japan's Akiko Morigami in the quarterfinals. (Hindu) (Times of India)