PARIS: Spain’’s Carlos Sastre wrapped up his maiden Tour de France triumph here on Sunday following the final stage of the race into Paris.Sastre, a 33-year-old climbing specialist who rides for the CSC team, became the eighth Spaniard to win the race’’s yellow jersey and the third consecutively after Oscar Pereiro (2006) and Alberto Contador (2007).Silence-Lotto’’s Cadel Evans was runner-up for the second consecutive year, the Australian finishing 1min 05sec behind Sastre after failing to eradicate a 1min 34sec deficit to the Spaniard in the penultimate stage time trial.A surprise third place went to Gerolsteiner’’s Bernhard Kohl of Austria, who stepped onto the podium in Paris wearing the polka dot jersey for the race’’s ”King of the Mountains”.Sastre’’s CSC team had cause for further celebration, having topped the teams” classification and seen Andy Schleck win the white jersey for the best placed rider aged 25 and under.Schleck’’s older brother Frank - the Luxembourg champion - finished in sixth place overall having worn the yellow jersey for two days in the Alps.Rabobank sprinter Oscar Freire meanwhile made history by becoming the first Spaniard to win the race’’s green jersey for the points classification.

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LAHORE: Lahore won the Sports Board Punjab Under-15 Hockey Championship by defeating Bahawalpur here at the National Hockey Stadium on Sunday.In the final of the tournament, Lahore 3-1. Lahore team displaying excellent game and was winning by three goals to nil at the end of the first half.For Lahore, Asfar Yaqoob, Mohammad Rizwan and Mohammad Usman netted one goal each while Muzammal made goal for Bahawalpur.Earlier, Sargodha beat Faisalabad 3-0 to obtain the third position in the championship.

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LONDON: British rising star Amir Khan has chosen as his new trainer the man who once looked after the Cuban boxer who beat him for the gold medal at t

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KarachiAs a tussle between the government of Pakistan and Jamia Binoria continues over the deportation of six international students, the fore

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LAHORE: On a directive of the Punjab government, the district and sessions judge, Lahore, has removed the names of Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Tehmina Daultan

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PARIS: Spanish rider Carlos Sastre all but won the Tour de France here on Saturday as he retained the overall leader’’s yellow jersey after the 53 kilometres time trial from Cerily to here. Earlier, former yellow jersey wearer Stefan Schumacher had won the 20th stage.

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