July 2005 in Sports - 24 July 2005

24 July 2005

• American football
  • Ricky Williams returns after a one-year absence to the NFL's Miami Dolphins.
• Cricket: The Ashes: Australia (190 & 384) beat England (155 & 180) by 239 runs in the first Test at Lord's. (BBC)
• Football (Soccer):
  • CONCACAF Gold Cup Final (AP/Yahoo!)
    • USA 0–0 Panama (aet, 3–1 on penalties)
  • Internazionale will proceed with their planned pre-season tour of England, reversing their decision from the previous day to cancel the tour due to security concerns related to this month's bombings in London. (BBC)

• Auto racing
  • Formula One: German Grand Prix – Fernando Alonso wins the event, his sixth this season, over Juan Pablo Montoya and Jenson Button. (Formula1.com)
  • NASCAR: Pennsylvania 500 – Kurt Busch won the event lengthened by three laps because of a caution, and ending under another yellow flag. (NASCAR.com)
  • IndyCar: A. J. Foyt 225 – Sam Hornish Jr. of Team Penske is the winner, holding off Dario Franchitti in the race held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Indycar.com)

• Cycling: Tour de France
  • Stage 21, Corbeil-Essonnes to Paris (Champs-Élysées), 144 km (89 mi). Lance Armstrong wins his seventh and final Tour. Due to rain in Paris, the Tour organisers exercised their option to take the time for general classification purposes at the first entrance to the Champs-Élysées. The riders continued to race for the stage win and its associated time bonuses and points. Alexander Vinokourov wins the stage and a 20-second time bonus, allowing him to pass Levi Leipheimer for fifth place overall, after escaping from the peloton with 2 km left. Armstrong's overall time is 86h 15m 02s. The rest of the top ten of the general classification are Ivan Basso at +4m 40s, Jan Ullrich at +6m 21s, Francisco Mancebo at +9m 59s, Vinokourov at +11m 01s, Leipheimer at +11m 21s, Michael Rasmussen at +11m 33s; however, Rasmussen was the overall winner of the mountains classification. The remainder of the top ten in the General Classification was Cadel Evans at +11m 55s, Floyd Landis at +12m 44s and Óscar Pereiro at +16m 14s. Thor Hushovd wins the points classification, Yaroslav Popovych wins the young rider classification top rider under age 25, and T-Mobile won the team classification. (LeTour.com)