CYCLING

Tour runner-up not on this year’s team — Giro d’Italia champion Nairo Quintana will skip the Tour de France, his Movistar team said Wednesday. Last year’s Tour runner-up wasn’t included in Movistar’s preliminary 13-man squad on Wednesday. It will trim the squad to nine before the July 5-27 race. The team stuck to its plan of reserving Quintana for the Spanish Vuelta despite the 24-year-old Colombian’s spectacular rise over the past two seasons. The team picked Alejandro Valverde as its “designated leader.”

Cavendish in Tour de Suisse crash — Sacha Modolo timed his sprint to perfection to win the fifth stage of the Tour de Suisse on Wednesday as Mark Cavendish was involved in a crash on the final corner. Modolo and others avoided the crash just behind them and the Italian cyclist edged out Peter Sagan on the line after racing for four hours for the most significant victory of his career. Tony Martin retained his six-second advantage over Dutch cyclist Tom Dumoulin, with Sagan 10 seconds behind the German.

TENNIS

World No. 2 Djokovic is Wimbledon top seed —Second-ranked Novak Djokovic was made top seed at next week’s Wimbledon tennis championships, while world No. 1 Rafael Nadal was relegated to second. Nadal, who won a record ninth French Open title earlier this month by beating Djokovic in the final, won’t be top seed at the All England Club because of his record on grass over the past two years. Five-time champion Serena Williams is the women’s top seed, ahead of Australian Open champion Li Na and Simona Halep. Agnieszka Radwanska, a former Wimbledon finalist, was seeded fourth. Wimbledon has its own formula for seeding players, unlike the other three majors, which follow the rankings of the men’s ATP World Tour and women’s WTA tour. The men’s seeds are based on the ATP rankings plus performance on faster grass courts over the past two years. The women’s seeding order usually follows the WTA rankings unless organizers need to make a change to balance the draw.

— From wire reports