Sprint ace Mark Cavendish pulled out of the Tour de France on Tuesday, hours after suffering a broken shoulder blade in a horror crash at the end of the fourth stage.

Việt Nam’s No 2 badminton player Phạm Cao Cường, who hopes to earn a bronze medal at August’s Southeast Asian Games in Malaysia, held a five-year contract signing ceremony with the Thái Bình Oil and Gas Petroleum Joint Stock Company yesterday.

Việt Nam’s Sanna Khánh Hòa crushed Vientiane Capital of Laos 9-2 at the AFF Futsal Club Championship in Bangkok yesterday.

Vietnamese Grandmaster Lê Quang Liêm had two draws in the sixth and seventh round of the World Open 2017 chess tournament in the US on Monday.

The Việt Nam U22 team began their training session at the Việt Nam Youth Football Training Centre in Hà Nội yesterday to prepare for the 2018 AFC U23 Championship qualification and 29th Southeast Asian Games.

SHB Đà Nẵng has signed Gramoz Kurtaj of Germany for the second stage of the National Football Championship V-League.1 in replacing for Brazilian striker Brazilian Teofilo Soares Eydison after a six-month contract.

Việt Nam lost to Kazakhstan’s Altay in the SMM 2017 Asian Men’s Club Volleyball Championship on July 3.

Lê Quang Liêm defeated Jianchao Zhou in the fifth round of the World Open 2017 in the US yesterday.

Nine Vietnamese cueists will compete in the three-cushion World Cup championship in Porto, Portugal.

Sanna Khánh Hoà drew 1-1 with Melaka United in their first match of the ASEAN Football Federation Futsal Club Championship in Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday.

Lý Hoàng Nam of Việt Nam won his first match at the China F11 Men’s Futures tennis tournament in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, yesterday.

The National Youth Chess Championship will kick off on July 6 in Đà Lạt.

Hoàng Xuân Vinh has retained his position as the world’s top 10m air pistol shooter with 2,542 points, according to the July 2017 men’s rankings from the International Shooting Sport Federation.

The National Tennis Championships for young talented players ended in Sóc Trăng on Sunday with Khánh Duy of Bình Dương bagging the boys’ U16 title.

Việt Nam’s tennis ace, Lý Hoàng Nam, has climbed 62 places to rank 475th in the latest Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rankings announced yesterday.

Việt Nam lost 0-3 to Qatar’s Al Arabi Sports Club in the classification round match at the Asian Men’s Club Volleyball Championship, held in Ninh Bình Province’s gymnasium on Sunday.

Sanna Khánh Hòa has set a target of winning three points from their first match at the ASEAN Football Federation Futsal Championship in Thailand today.

FLC Thanh Hóa defeated Hoàng Anh Gia Lai 5-3 yesterday, securing a sizeable lead for themselves over the other teams in the V.League.