golfers. cycling and belgian s lotte kopecky is closing in on her first major cycling tour title, as she continues to lead the tour de france femmes before stages to go. 32 seconds behind the leader ricarda who attacked with 36 kilometres to go. managed to race clear to win herfirst tour stage. lotte kopecky keeps the yellowjersey with a lead of 43 seconds overall. there has been huge controversy at the world fencing championships after ukrainian fencer 0lga calland was disqualified after refusing to hands with russian and y spin over. she was the first fencer to face a russian or belarussian since the invasion of her homeland and went on to win15 7 in milan. afterwards, she rejected a handshake, instead offering her sabre to tap blades, something that led to her this qualification from the women s savour individual