15 altercation in Atlantic City, New Jersey, with then-fiancee Janay Palmer.Ģ016 - Chris Froome celebrates his third Tour de France title in four years. The six-year veteran was arrested following a Feb.
Junior Amateur titles in 1991.Ģ011 - Cadel Evans wins the Tour de France, becoming the first Australian champion in cycling’s greatest race.Ģ014 - Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice receives a two-game suspension from the NFL following his offseason arrest for domestic violence. Liu, who turns 15 next month, is more than six months younger than Tiger Woods when he won the first of his three consecutive U.S. holds off a late challenge from Mike Skinner to win the AAA Insurance 200, making him the first driver in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series to win four consecutive races.Ģ010 - Fourteen-year-old Jim Liu of Smithtown, N.Y., beats Justin Thomas of Goshen, Ky., 4 and 2 to become the youngest U.S. Lieberman held the record playing at age 39 in 1997 while playing for the Phoenix Mercury.Ģ009 - Ron Hornaday Jr. Lieberman, finishes with two assists and two turnovers, surpassing her own record as the oldest player in WNBA history. All of the titles are stripped in 2012 for doping.Ģ008 - Nancy Lieberman makes a one-game appearance for the Detroit Shock after the 50-year-old Hall-of-Famer signed a seven-day contract earlier in the day. Armin Meier, a member of the Festina team who was kicked off the tour the previous week, admits to a French radio station that he used a banned drug.Ģ005 - Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.
Women’s Open golf championship by two strokes over Nancy Lopez.ġ998 - Tour de France riders, angered by the drug scandal that has dominated the event, protest by delaying the start of racing for two hours. Italian Dorando Pietri is the first athlete to enter the stadium, but collapses several times before being disqualified when officials help him across the line.ġ931 - Paavo Nurmi sets the world record at 2 miles in a meet at Helsinki, Finland, with a time of 8:59.6.ġ960 - Jay Hebert beats Jim Ferrier by one stroke to win the PGA golf tournament.ġ967 - Don January wins a playoff by two strokes over Don Massengale to win the PGA championship.ġ970 - The International Lawn Tennis Association institutes the nine-point tiebreaker rule.ġ976 - John Naber of the United States becomes the first swimmer to break the 2-minute barrier in the 200-meter backstroke at the Olympics in Montreal.ġ976 - Mac Wilkins of the United States sets an Olympic record in the discus with a toss of 224 feet in Montreal.ġ977 - Hollis Stacy wins the U.S. 1908 - John Hayes wins the Olympic marathon in a record of 2 hours, 55 minutes, 18.4 seconds.