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Jonas Vingegaard put on a blistering show in the final lap to win the inaugural Tour de France Singapore Criterium cycling race on Sunday.

that made the race a bit harder as well." "The heat was really a big factor today. In the final I just tried to follow the best guys and Jonas...

Tour winner attacks alone to beat Froome and Nibali in 65km circuit race.

With seven laps to go Jasper Philipsen, Cavendish’s teammate in the Legends Team, gave him a leadout to win more points, the two swapping a first-pump in celebration. [Vingegaard](https://www.cyclingnews.com/riders/jonas-vingegaard/), Chris Froome, Vincenzo Nibali, Simon Geschke and Enric Mas got away with two of the 20 laps to race and then Vingegaard got away alone with two attacks in the final kilometre. When only Nibali could go with him, he kicked again, got a gap and surged away to win with his arms in the air. He was not happen when a Lotto-Soudal rider beat him to the line in the second sprint. The 20-lap race saw a number of attacks and chases, with a pre-race script perhaps established to put on an entertaining race. Mark Cavendish fought for the points competition, fighting with other riders in the different intermediate sprints.

Three Tour de France champions finished in the top 3 places of the inaugural Tour de France Prudential Singapore Criterium race, with reigning champion ...

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Four-time Tour winner Chris Froome was second, 2014 champion Vincenzo Nibali finished third. Read more at straitstimes.com.

He said: “In the end, it was a really hard race and luckily I was in the final breakaway. The Kenya-born Briton, 37, said: “I just tried to follow the best guys and Jonas when he went ahead... I thought it would’ve been a sprint in the end but luckily we got away and I was able to win.” “It’s a great event with so much potential and it can be a marquee event for the cycling community. With two laps to go, a group comprising Vingegaard, Froome, Nibali, Simon Geschke and Enric Mas pushed ahead. Every time you win in yellow is special.”

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I feel compelled to speak out when I see things go as horribly wrong as Singapore's use of the death penalty.

We have studied the failed war on drugs for the last 15 years, and with one voice, we urge governments to treat drug use as a health issue, and to stop the needless and ineffective criminalisation of people. Here is why: a television debate - limited in time and scope, always at risk of prioritising personalities over issues - cannot do the complexity of the death penalty any service. As I’ve said many times before, it’s a disproportionate and ineffective response to the world’s drug problems. If he had, he would have been overjoyed and pleased to know that abolition had no impact on crime rates in the UK one way or the other. And he told my father he not only disagreed with the principle of the state killing people. I thank you and the Ministry for Home Affairs for contacting me last week.

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British tycoon Richard Branson has rejected an invitation to debate Singapore's interior minister on the death penalty but doubled down on criticism that ...

Dharmalingam, was arrested in 2009 and was hanged in April. "Why would the government consider Richard Branson to be more worthy of a response than the families of death row prisoners and the Singaporeans who stand in solidarity with them?" "A television debate - limited in time and scope, always at risk of prioritising personalities over issues - cannot do the complexity of the death penalty any service," he said.

British billionaire Richard Branson has declined a live televised debate with Singapore's Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam on the city-state's drug ...

The British billionaire has spoken out about Singapore's death penalty for crimes such as drug trafficking.

But a court found that he was not intellectually disabled. He was eventually sentenced to death by hanging. Sir Richard Branson has turned down an invitation from Singapore's government to take part in a live television debate about the country's approach towards drugs and the death penalty.

The Virgin Group founder said he had felt 'compelled to speak out' about executions in the city state, but declined the invitation to take part in a ...

The British billionaire said he was declining the invitation as he felt a debate on such a platform would lack nuance. Read more at straitstimes.com.

He called on the Government to engage anti-death penalty advocates, lawyers and journalists, and cited groups like the Transformative Justice Collective as well as Mr M. It cited the reduction in quantity of opium and cannabis trafficked into Singapore since the mandatory capital sentence was introduced for such drugs. MHA said on Oct 22 that Mr Branson also made false assertions about alleged racial bias here and the treatment of capital defence lawyers. Instead of a television debate, the Government should engage Singaporean stakeholders, he said. [Singapore’s invitation to a live televised debate with Law and Home Affairs Minister K. I can’t imagine that is what you are looking for.

SINGAPORE: British billionaire Richard Branson declined the Ministry of Home Affairs' (MHA) invitation to a debate on Singapore's.

“This is about universal human rights and humanity’s shared aspiration to advance equality, justice, dignity, and freedom everywhere, for everyone.” Advertisement He added that while he will continue to advocate for the abolition of the death penalty and raise the issue “wherever (he) can”, the conversation “needs local voices”. [invitation to a debate](https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/richard-branson-live-debate-k-shanmugam-drugs-death-penalty-mha-singapore-3020736) on Singapore’s approach towards drugs and the death penalty, saying the conversation “needs local voices” and that a television debate “cannot do the complexity of the death penalty any service”.