July 2005 in Sports - 8 July 2005

8 July 2005

• Golf:
  • Michelle Wie misses the cut at the PGA Tour John Deere Classic, held in Silvis, Illinois. Wie shot a 70 in the second round, preventing her from becoming the first female golfer in tour history to play into the weekend. (AP/Yahoo!)
• Olympics:
  • Baseball and softball will be dropped from the Olympic docket of sports in time for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Two of the sports being considered to replace them are golf and rugby sevens. However, IOC president Jacques Rogge says these sports are not gone from the Games forever. Update: squash and karate were nominated to replace baseball and softball, but did not get the 2/3 majority needed to become Olympic sports. (Yahoo! Asia)
• Cycling: Tour de France
  • On the day that saw the Tour de France divert into Germany, Stage 7 between Lunéville and Karlsruhe was won in a disorganised sprint finish by Robbie McEwen, with Magnus Bäckstedt second and Bernhard Eisel third. Tom Boonen had his worst sprint finish so far, finishing in seventh place. The big names finished in the peloton, losing no time, Jan Ullrich in 45th place, Lance Armstrong in 53rd place, and Alexander Vinokourov in 65th place. Armstrong and George Hincapie are still in first and second, Hincapie being 55 seconds back, with Vinokourov third, 62 seconds behind Armstrong in the GC. (BBC)