| | | Greipel and Forstemann's thighs | InItaly, in cycling: Today, the Girod'Italia continues with a 148 km stage for Tortoli to Cagliari, on the islandof Sardinia. Yesterday's stage, and thepink jersey, were taken by German Andre Greipel. Greipel, in taking over the ‘maglia rosa’ orpink jersey, now has 22 Grand Tour stage victories including 11 from past Toursde France and four from Vueltas a Espana. Greipel commented that the stage Saturday was difficult, "It wasn’tan easy day with the head wind," he said. "It made a six hours racebut it also played in our favour. Otherwise there would have been some attacks." He continued "I’m really proud to win atthe Giro again. I’m glad to win for my teammates who worked for me sinceyesterday. This stage win and the pink jersey are for them and also for mymother." How can you fault a topathlete who dedicates his win to his mother? As mentioned, Stage3 on Sunday is a 148 km ride from Tortoli to Cagliari. It is the last on Sardinia before Monday’srest day. Tuesday the action resumeswith two stages on the island of Sicily. Also in Italy,in Association Football: Today is a keyday in the Italian standings of Serie A Calcio. Roma, in third at two points behind Napoli and 10 behind Juventus, canmove back up to second place with a win away at AC Milan on Sunday. "Everyone is beatable," becausethey are Roma, according to goalkeeperWojciech Szczesny. Roma must beat ACMilan to retain any hope of winning the Serie A title. Iuventus could only playto a draw against Torino in Saturday'sDerby della Mole, and so the situation is, perhaps, a bit less critical, butthe season is winding down, and Roma needs to excel to have any hopes of takingthe top spot. Next week they contest Juve itself, and they need momentum to leadinto that critical game. This week also brought confirmation that40-year-old striker Francesco Totti will retire from playing at the end of theseason, with a director's role beckoning at the club he has served for hisentire career. One of the players said ``Whenhis career ends it will be difficult for the club, but he will continue to dogood work for us. We all know that he will always be one of us and that willhelp us.'' In the USA, inNBA playoffs, Kevin Durant scored 38 points andthe Golden State Warriors withstood a determined Utah effort to down the Jazz102-91 on Saturday to take a commanding 3-0 lead in their NBA playoff series. The Warriors will try to close out thebest-of-seven Western Conference second-round series in Game 4 on Monday inSalt Lake City. The Jazz had hoped areturn to their home floor on Saturday would spark a resurgence, and it brieflylooked as if it had. The Jazz findthemselves one defeat away from elimination. In England, inInternational Cricket, Ireland continues their tour of England with their 2ndODI today at Lord's. England has a mixed record at the historicLord's, although it is Cricket's "Carnegie Hall," on their hometerritory. A debut international fixtureagainst England at Lord's - with its Long Room, honours boards, and anticipated22,000 crowd - is the occasion that Ireland's cricketers have been dreamingabout for a decade. It's a gala day for Irish cricket. Ireland suffered badly from stage fright in the firstODI at Bristol on Friday but now, surely, will approach this game with thepressure off and looking to steal the show in the grand old backyard of Englishcricket. England considered itself tohave played badly on Friday. WilliamPorterfield, of the English Squad has said "You don't become bad playersovernight. It was one bad game, one bad day at the office." With the greatestof English precision, it has been announced that the weather is "Overcast but reasonably mild thismorning. The slightest threat of rain but no danger of a delayed start. The pitchhas its usual misleading tinge of green but will surely be another road. Theboundaries are short and tempting, particularly down the ground towards themedia centre, where they've been brought in a good 20 yards." A bonus video -- Posted By Rex to SR at 5/07/2017 05:56:00 AM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/omnisport. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
