Brit youngest to earn Tour stage win

In his first Tour de France, 22-year-old Tom Pidcock became the youngest winner of a stage on the iconic Alpe d’Huez mountain after crossing the line solo at the ski resort Thursday, when Jonas Vingegaard kept the overall lead.

The mountain bike Olympic champion from Britain attacked on the ascent, and his frenetic pace up the legendary 21 hairpin bends was too fast for his breakaway companions on the daunting 102.5-mile Stage 12.

For his first day in the yellow jersey, Vingegaard finished three minutes, 23 seconds behind Pidcock to keep his overall lead intact.

The Jumbo-Visma team leader was in a group including two-time defending champ Tadej Pogacar and 2018 Tour winner Geraint Thomas.

Vingegaard leads Pogacar by two minutes, 22 seconds, with Thomas third, 2:26 off the pace.

College football: Oregon TE Spencer Webb died Wednesday in a recreational accident, the Lane County Sheriff ’s Office announced Thursday. He was 22. According to the sheriff ’s office, Webb fell and struck his head just a short distance from Triangle Lake, a location popular for cliff jumping and natural rock waterslides that is near Eugene, Oregon. Authorities said his death appeared to be accidental. Webb, from Sacramento, Calif., was set to begin his fifth season at Oregon. He played in all 14 games last season, catching 13 passes for 87 yards and a TD.

Golf: Pauline Roussin made a hole-in-one and teamed with fellow rookie Dewi Weber to take a three-stroke lead at the Great Lakes Bay Invitational in Midland, Mich., leaving Hall of Famer Annika Sorenstam and Madelene Sagstrom five shots behind. Tied with the 51-year-old Sorenstam and Sagstrom after an opening 5-under 65 in alternate-shot play Wednesday, Roussin and Weber had a 61 in the better-ball round to reach 14-under 126. The teams will play alternate shot Friday and finish Saturday with better ball. Sorenstam and Sagstrom slipped back with a 66. Sorenstam is making her second LPGA Tour start of the year and only her third since retiring after the 2008 season.

NFL: Rashard Anderson, a first-round pick by the Panthers in the 2000 draft after a standout career at Jackson State, died Wednesday. He was 45. The cause of Anderson’s death was unknown. Anderson was selected by the Panthers with the 23rd overall pick in the 2000 draft and appeared in 27 games. He was suspended for the entire 2003 season for violating the substance abuse policy and didn’t play again in the NFL.