Germany’s Pascal Ackermann rounded Britain’s Mark Cavendish and held off a late surge from Italy’s Jonathan Milan to pick up his first win of the season at Tortona. But Stage 11 of the Giro d’Italia was marred by a freak crash that brought down Ineos Grenadiers duo Geraint Thomas and Tao Geoghegan Hart. Welshman Thomas recovered to retain the race lead but the 2020 champion was forced to abandon.
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The Emilia Romagna Grand Prix has been called off this weekend because of major flooding in the region. Discussions on Wednesday between local authorities and organisers of the race at Imola in Italy concluded that the event could not proceed safely.
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Lautaro Martinez provided the finishing touch as Inter Milan cruised into the Champions League final with a 3-0 aggregate win over AC Milan. Martinez fired the only goal of a stop-start second leg to add to their 2-0 victory in last week’s opening instalment and Inter will face either Manchester City or Real Madrid in Istanbul on June 10.
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Denmark’s Magnus Cort gave his EF Education-EasyPost team a boost following the withdrawal of Rigoberto Uran with a thrilling win in Stage 10 of the Giro d’Italia from a three-man break in Viareggio. Cort outkicked Derek Gee and Alessandro De Marchi to complete his grand slam of Grand Tour stage wins on another wet, cold and immensely entertaining day in Italy.
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Remco Evenepoel was forced to withdraw from the Giro d’Italia after testing positive for Covid-19 hours after reclaiming the pink jersey on Sunday. Ineos Grenadiers’ Geraint Thomas has now assumed the race lead as a result of Evenepoel’s withdrawal.
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