This year’s Champions League final between Macnhester City and Chelsea has been moved from Istanbul to FC Porto’s Estádio do Dragão. The decision was taken after the English government added Turkey to their red list of travel destinations.
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Caleb Ewan powered through the traffic to beat Giacomo Nizzolo in Stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia after a chaotic finish to an otherwise pedestrian stage saw Mikel Landa crash out and ended the general classification chances of Pavel Sivakov.
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America’s Joe Dombrowski won Stage 4 of the Giro d’Italia in the ski resort of Sestola as Italy’s Alessandro De Marchi settled for the pink jersey after a sodden day in the saddle. Colombia’s Egan Bernal led the charge from the race favourites as Remco Evenepoel, Simon Yates, Vincenzo Nibali and Joao Almeida all lost varying degrees of time.
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Leaders Shamrock Rovers left it late to beat second placed St. Patrick’s Athletic in the SSE Airtricity Premier Division. Meanwhile in the First Division UCD and Shelbourne went joint top with important wins over Treaty United and Athlone Town.
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Dutchman Taco van der Hoorn caused a huge upset in Stage 3 of the Giro d’Italia after holding off the rampaging pack to win from the breakaway in Canale. The 27-year-old from Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert was the last man standing from an eight-man move which defied the peloton by a whisker over a series of leg-sapping climbs in the Langhe hills of Piedmont.
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