July 2005 in Sports - 9 July 2005

9 July 2005

• Boxing:
  • Héctor Camacho beats Raul Munoz by a ten round unanimous decision in Tucson, Arizona, and a small riot takes place after the fight. Julio César Chávez had to be escorted off the fight's arena by security. Héctor Camacho Jr. also wins a fight. fightnews.com
• Cycling: Tour de France
  • Stage 8 of the Tour, 231.5 km from Pforzheim, Germany to Gerardmer, ends in an apparent photographic dead heat between Pieter Weening (Rabobank) and Andreas Klöden (T-Mobile Team) in 5 hours 3 minutes 54 seconds, eventually awarded to Weening by .0002 of a second, the smallest victory margin ever. Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile Team) finished in 6th place.
  • In the General Classification Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) still leads in 28 hours 6 minutes 17 seconds (earning his 71st maillot jaune, the 78-day record of Bernard Hinault looking increasingly approachable), followed 1 minute later by Jens Voigt (Team CSC), Alexandre Vinokourov (T-Mobile Team) 1 minute 2 seconds behind Armstrong, and Bobby Julich (Team CSC) 1 minute 7 seconds behind the leader.
  • Two other jerseys changed hands today: Michael Rasmussen of Rabobank will wear the King of the Mountains jersey, the maillot á pois, and Yaroslav Popovych loses the white jersey for the young rider classification in the Tour de France to Vladimir Karpets of Illes Balears by one second.(BBC) (Le Tour)
• Rugby union: The British and Irish Lions' tour of New Zealand ends with a 38–19 defeat by the All Blacks in Auckland. The All Blacks sweep the three-Test series 3–0, leaving the Lions without a Test win for the first time since their 1983 tour of New Zealand. (BBC)