SaturdaySport In Italy: Tom Dumoulin leads the overall in edition 100of the Giro d’Italia ahead of Nairo Quintana and Bauke Mollema. Today's Girod'Italia features a stage, which at 131kilometres, travels from Castellania to Oropa. It is a compact route on flatroads, with a steep finale climb to a sanctuary, an irregular 11.8 kilometres ,almost straight uphill at 6.2% with steepest sectors of up to 13%. It isan irregular ascent with the most unwelcoming sectors from kilometre 5 onwards. The first three riders on the line take timebonuses of 10, 6 and 4 seconds, while the last intermediate sprint (atkilometre 126.6) comes with 3, 2 and 1 seconds. Today's stage could really shake up the General Classification. Today'sAussie Rules Football Premiership season features contests between St. Kildaand the Sydney Swans, GWS Giants vs. Richmond, the Hawthorn vs. Collingwood atthe Melbourne Cricket Grounds and the Brisbane Lions vs. Adelaide Crows at theGabba. After two unexpected losses, thisappears the perfect game for Adelaide to get its season heading back in theright direction. Despite being humbled by North Melbourne and Melbourne in thepast two weeks, the Crows are still flying on top of the ladder. While they'dbe foolish to take the young Lions lightly, the Crows' potent forward linematched up against the competition's leakiest defence seems the remedy for areturn-to-form victory. Meanwhile, after their opening round win against Gold Coast,the Lions have lost seven straight, but were more than competitive in lastSaturday's loss to Hawthorn in Launceston. It's the Lions' only game at theGabba in a five-week span. European Soccer wraps up, with alast few days of regular competition. Today and Tomorrow will bring an end to the season, with only a fewgames, such as the upcoming Champions League final, maintaining interest in the"beautiful game." As onecolumnist recently commented "final day games are oftenrubbish." In England's PremierLeague, with Chelsea already champions, and the relegation places decided, theonly thing at stake is whether Arsenal or Liverpool reach fourth place and getin the Uefa Champions League. Just think, a battle for fourth place. Soccer is so exciting. Liverpool, at home to already relegatedMiddlesbrough, are clear favourites. Manchester United will finish sixth,unbelievably so, but meanwhile, they have excelled on the Europa League front,and will play in the final next week. -- Posted By Rex to SR at 5/20/2017 04:18:00 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.
