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Garrett Tribble has a go at the Cody/ Yellowstone Xtreme Bulls event. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO StaffReport CODY,WYO. GarrettTribblemade the most of his first trip to the Cody Stampede. Tribble, from Bristow, Okla., is the newly crowned Cody/ Yellowstone Xtreme Bulls cham- pion after riding Summit Pro Ro- deo's bull named Smokin' Dragon for 85 points. That 8-second effort netted Trib- ble $5,414, which could be crucial money for him as he tries to qual- ify for his first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. He is currently 11th in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association world standings. Tribble was in the first section of bull riding at Stampede Park. The bull he originally got on fouled the bull rider, so he had the option of a re-ride. There was no question in what he would do, but then he had to wait for all of the other bull riders to compete before he got on again. While it did test Tribble's pa- tience, it was exciting for the near- capacity crowd as Tribble's last ride of the night was the winning one. "I hadn't ever seen or heard of that bull before," Tribble said of the bull that took him to his first Xtreme Bulls win. "He felt real good and I rode him good. It all worked out." Getting the high score of the night and winning the event here was made even more special by two fans in the audience. Tribble's grandparents had been vacation- ing in the Cody/Yellowstone area and when they found out that he would be competing here, they ex- tended their stay to watch. After his success at Thursday night's Xtreme Bulls, they may want to stay to watch him ride in the rodeo here Saturday night. Following the bull riding com- petition, five top bullfighters took the stage for the Bullfighters Only freestyle bullfights. Participating were the three bullfighters who stay busy protecting bull riders at the Cody Stampede, Nate Jestes, Cody Webster and Dusty Tuckness. Also competing were Chuck Swisher and Weston Rutkowski. When the judges added up their totals, Tuckness, who makes his home 30 miles south of Cody in Meeteetse, was crowned the cham- BULL RIDING TribblewinsXtremeBullstitle Rider from Bristow, Okla., scores 85 points on Smokin' Dragon By Andrew Dampf The Associated Press SAINT-LO, FRANCE The landing beaches. The war cemeteries. The museums. The first towns that were liberated more than 70 years ago. The D-Day and World War II history that is embedded in the culture of Normandy is earn- ing extra spotlight this weekend when the Tour de France opens with two stages in the region. Saturday's opening leg starts at Mont-Saint-Michel, a World Her- itage Benedictine abbey perched on a rock off the coast, and ends at Utah Beach, one of the key landing sites for Allied troops on June 6, 1944. The first stage also passes through Sainte-Mere-Eglise, where American paratrooper John Steele dangled from a clock tower after his parachute got caught during the invasion, and survived. The town is now home to the Airborne Museum. Stage 2 on Sunday finishes in Cherbourg-En-Cotentin, site of the Battle of Cherbourg. Tejay van Garderen, the BMC rider who represents the United States' best hope for overall vic- tory in the Tour, was wide eyed as he took a look around this week. "It really puts into perspective TOUR DE FRANCE Spotlight on history of war in Normandy By Jenna Fryer The Associated Press DAYTONABEACH,FLA. Fordfound some extra power at one of NAS- CAR's fastest tracks — enough to put Greg Biffle on the pole for the first time in almost four years. Biffle led a Ford contingent to a strong showing in qualifying for Saturday night's race at Daytona International Speedway to earn the top starting spot. He was one of seven Ford driv- ers to qualify in the top 14 at a track where Toyota used team- work to win the Daytona 500 in February. Biffle was the last car to make a lap in Friday night's qualifying session and earned the top start- ing spot with a speed of 192.995 mph in his Roush Fenway Rac- ing Ford. It is Biffle's first pole since Char- lotte in October 2012, a streak of 130 races, and he credited engine builder Doug Yates. "I am not going to discredit winning a pole but we would sure like to win an open race track," Biffle said. "We have been really close with a couple outside front row starts and just haven't quite gotten there. It does feel good for our team though." NASCAR SPRINT CUP Biffle captures pole position for Daytona By Howard Fendrich The Associated Press LONDON Dismayed at drop- ping the first set after being a single point from taking it, Ser- ena Williams sat in her Centre Court sideline chair and cracked her racket against the turf once, twice, three times, four. Then she casually flung the racket, hurling it so far behind her that it landed in the lap of a TV cameraman filming her sec- ond-round match against 65th- ranked American Christina McHale. Williams recovered to force a third set, only to fall behind yet again Friday, perilously close to what would have been the six- time champion's earliest exit in 17 Wimbledon appearances. But as she herself declared af- terward: "Mentally, no one can break me." Eventually, the top-ranked Williams did indeed come through, edging McHale 6-7 (7), 6-2, 6-4 for a thrill-a-min- ute victory at a tournament so rain drenched this week that matches will be scheduled on the middle Sunday for only the fourth time in 139 years. The dramatics of Williams' match, which concluded with the main stadium's retractable roof closed, were equaled by those of her older sister Venus: She had to wait out three rain delays, including one of more than an hour that arrived, of all times, right as she held a match point. But Venus, owner of five titles at the All England Club, persevered, too, barely getting past 29th-seeded Daria Kasat- kina 7-5, 4-6, 10-8 to become one of only two women already into the fourth round. "You see a winner go by you, and a lob go in, and you're like, 'My god, what's next?"' said Venus, who at 36 is the old- est woman in the field and has played about 6 hours of ten- nis in the past two days, includ- ing singles and doubles. Of the way things went for her Friday, including the interrup- tion at match point while she led 5-4 in the third and Kasatkina served at 30-40, Venus said: "It was like a Hollywood script." Serena's mood soured when she had a set point in the first and appeared to have converted it, until McHale — who's never been past the third round at a major — successfully challenged the call that her shot landed out. From there, McHale played aggressively, and when she grabbed that set, 21-time Grand Slam champion Serena took out her frustration on her racket. "I was just really, really, really angry. I had a lot of chances," said Serena, who acknowledged she faces a fine for her display and joked that she needed to reach her racket-smashing quota for the season. "She got really lucky on some shots." Despite all that went on in the siblings' matches — they over- lapped, so their mother, Oracene Price, hustled from No. 1 Court, where she saw Venus win, across the way to catch the end of Sere- na's victory — the most shocking development Friday was what was going on in Novak Djokov- ic's third-rounder against 28th- seeded Sam Querrey of the U.S. WIMBLEDON SERENA SURVIVES, RACKET DOES NOT No. 1 seed Djokovic trailing Querrey 2 sets to none before suspension for rain Serena Williams of the U.S celebrates a er beating Christina McHale of the U.S in their women's singles match on day five of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London on Friday. PHOTOS BY BEN CURTIS — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Serena Williams of the U.S slips during her women's singles match against Christina McHale of the U.S on day five of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London on Friday. 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