The battle between defending champion Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark and 2021 champion Tadej Pogačar of Slovenia is expected to dominate headlines as the 2023 Tour de France begins tomorrow.

high on confidence after beating the likes of likes of Remco Evenepoel of Belgium and Juan Ayuso of Spain

The first European Games Esports Championships run alongside the sport programme is set to begin in Katowice tomorrow, with titles in Rocket League and eFootball 2023 set to be on offer with 100 athletes from 28 countries expected to compete.

attracted some of the game's top stars, including Yos Sonneveld of The Netherlands, Miguel Mestra of Spain

Hungary led for the entire women's épée team final at the European Games until the last match, when Auriane Mallo-Breton stole it for France.

Games for canoe slalom.Poland were victorious in the men's team kayak final, finishing 0.56sec ahead of Spain

Germany's Florian Unruh earned victory in the European Games men's recurve archery event but promptly insisted his main goal had been to win a Paris 2024 quota place for his country.

consistent opponent to extend the lead to 5-1 after three scores of 9, 10 and 9.Miguel Alvarino Garcia of Spain

Reigning Olympic champions Kellie Harrington and Busenaz Sürmeneli were among the 36 athletes to secure Paris 2024 quota places in boxing at the Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games here.

Veres and Denmark's Frederik Lundgaard Jensen respectively.Javier Ibáñez of Bulgaria and José Quiles of Spain

Eighteen-year-old Penny Healey hit both of her targets here today as she earned Britain a quota place at the Paris 2024 Games before winning the European Games women’s recurve title.

to be enough to earn the single Olympic quota place on offer when Canales, who had already secured Spain

Britain's women and Ireland's men won the rugby seven tournaments at the European Games here, clinching qualification places for next year's Olympics in Paris.

Series.Ireland dominated their semi-final 24-0 against Portugal, while Britain came from behind to beat Spain

tournament as their last chance to qualify for Paris 2024, and are set to be joined in that event by Spain

Puerto Rico's Olympic women’s 100 metres hurdles gold medallist Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico beat Nigeria’s world champion and record holder Tobi Amusan at Ostrava’s Golden Spike meeting.

the Olympic silver medallist and world bronze medallist, won on the night with 81.93m.Saul Ordonez of Spain

Hosts the United States claimed a fourth straight Women’s Water Polo World Cup crown, beating the Netherlands 12-11 in a thrilling final at Long Beach.

9TLeRWTHlv— World Aquatics (@WorldAquatics) June 26, 2023In the bronze-medal match, World League champions Spain

won a second World Cup bronze, defeating Hungary 18-15.With the scores level in the second period, Spain

contest to complete the victory.Anni Espar was named the best player in the water, scoring five goals for Spain

Spain stunned the United States 17-14 to win the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) 3x3 Women

The US were favourites to come out on top against Spain having captured the FIBA 3x3 World Cup crown

cMSajTmKTt— FIBA3x3 (@FIBA3x3) June 25, 2023Looking to stamp their authority on the gold-medal match, Spain

lead inside the opening two minutes.Breanna Richardson took charge for the US, scoring six points but Spain

respond but their shots didn’t fall before Vega Gimeno scored a free throw to secure the victory for Spain

over the US for the first time in seven years.Sandra Ygueravide was the star of the show for Spain,

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Kraków-Małopolska 2023 with victory in the mixed team compound final ©Kraków-Małopolska 2023Esther Guerrero of Spain

Top seeds Daniel Santigosa and Noa Canovas of Spain won the first European Games padel final here, where

Italy's Carolina Orsi and Giorgia Marchetti beating the top seeds Marta Barrera and Marta Caparro of Spain

261.6347 routine at the Oświęcim Aquatics Centre.Miguel Alvariño and Elia Canales provided gold for Spain

bronze medallists Germany 6-2.Thierry Ndikumwenayo provided a stunning men's 5,000 metres victory for Spain

Republic, and Serbia's Aleksandra Perišić beat reigning European champion Cecilia Castro Burgos of Spain

the International Basketball Federation Women’s EuroBasket title for the first time, after overcoming Spain

Spain held a 32-25 lead at the break at the Arena Stožice however the Belgian Cats fought back and helped

15 rebounds.Belgium limited their opponents to just one fast break basket, enabling them to restrict Spain

Olympic high jump champion Gianmarco Tamberi paid tribute to "the strongest Italian athletics team ever" after leading his country to its first top Division victory in the Silesia 2023 European Athletics Team Championships.

Esther Guerrero in the women’s 1500m and debutant Thierry Ndikumwenayo in the men’s 5,000m, helped lift Spain

Lithuania and Latvia won the women's and men's 3x3 basketball titles respectively on the third day of the Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games here.

the duet technical with a score of 256.9501, and Dennis Gonzalez Boneu and Mireia Hernandez I Luna of Spain

the ninth consecutive European Championships in the sport in 1:45.462.Antia Jacome and Pablo Grana of Spain

women's team recurve final and Italy winning the men's team recurve gold by the same scoreline against Spain