23 July 2005
- Cycling: Tour de France
- Stage 20, Individual time trial, 55.5 km, starting and finishing in Saint-Étienne. In the Tour's penultimate stage Michael Rasmussen suffers a disastrous performance, losing his overall third place following a fall after 3 km, requiring four bike changes, and then crashing into a ditch. Lance Armstrong wins his first stage of this Tour, the twenty-second of his career, in 1h 11m 46s. Jan Ullrich was 23 seconds slower but moves up the General Classification. In the GC, Lance Armstrong leads the parade toward Paris tomorrow in 82h 34m 05s, followed by Ivan Basso in +4m 40s, Jan Ullrich in +6m 21s, Francisco Mancebo in +9m 59s, Levi Leipheimer in +11m 25s, Alexander Vinokourov in +11m 27s, Michael Rasmussen plummets from 3rd to 7th in +11m 33s, Cadel Evans in +11m 55s, Floyd Landis in +12m 44s and Óscar Pereiro in +16m 04s. (Le Tour)
- Golf:
- LPGA rookie Paula Creamer wins the Evian Masters, a tournament in France co-sanctioned with the Ladies European Tour and a major on the latter tour. The 18-year-old Creamer cruised to an eight-stroke victory over Michelle Wie and Lorena Ochoa. (AP/Yahoo!)
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