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Minggu, 06 Mei 2012
Cavendish Wins Giro Stage 2
Britain's Mark Cavendish won the second stage of the Giro d'Italia, sealing the eighth stage victory of his career in the prestigious Grand Tour race.
The Team Sky rider triumphed in a bunch sprint at the end of the 128 mile (206km) stage, which started and finished in the Danish town of Herning.
Australia's Matt Goss was second with Frenchman Geoffrey Soupe third.
American Taylor Phinney retained the overall lead despite crashing with about five miles (8km) remaining.
There was another crash a few hundred metres from the line that took out some of the sprint contenders but Cavendish kept out of trouble to take victory.
Cavendish was brilliantly led out by Welsh team-mate Geraint Thomas in the closing stages.
The predominantly flat stage, with long stretches up the west Jutland coast, was expected to produce an early break and Alfredo Balloni (Farnese Vini), Olivier Kaisen (Lotto Belisol) and Miguel Rubiano (Androni Giacattoli-Venezuela) did just that, pulling away with 90 miles (145km) to go.
But they were caught with 25 miles (40km) remaining.
There was then an ineffectual attack by Lars Ytting Bak (Lotto Belisol), who went in search of a win on home soil, but he was undone by a combination of a headwind and a watchful peloton determined to set up a sprint finish.
The race stays in Denmark on Monday but leaves Herning for a 118-mile (190km) circuit around Horsens in east Jutland, which is again expected to favour the sprinters, particularly Cavendish.
Overall Standings
1. Taylor Phinney (US, BMC Racing) 5 hours, 3 minutes, 38 seconds
2. Geraint Thomas (Britain / Team Sky) at 9 secs
3. Alex Rasmussen (Denmark / Garmin) at 13 secs
4. Manuele Boaro (Italy / Saxo Bank) at 15 secs
5. Gustav Larsson (Sweden / Vacansoleil) at 22 secs
United Match City at Swansea
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Thompson and SPL Dilemma
Dundee United chairman Stephen Thompson has spoken of the dilemma facing the Scottish Premier League board over what to do with a "newco" Rangers.......
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O'Brien Comes Home in 1000 Guineas
Homecoming Queen has won the 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket as trainer Aidan O'Brien completed a Guineas double following Camelot's victory on Saturday.
Jockey Ryan Moore drove Homecoming Queen - a 25-1 outsider - to a convincing victory by nine lengths.
Starscope was second with the previously unbeaten favourite Maybe, ridden by O'Brien's son Joseph, third.
Grey Pearl was fatally injured in the stalls before the race, leading to a half-hour delay.
Maybe was the 13-8 favourite but stablemate Homecoming Queen set off at a blistering gallop and Joseph O'Brien's mount never looked content.
Moore kicked on again going into the dip aboard Ballydoyle's supposed second string and the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor stretched clear.
It was the first victory in the Newmarket fillies' Classic for Moore, who said: "Aidan said she was very fit and very well.
"I thought I was going a stride too quick, but she just kept going. There's not much of her, but she tries very hard. She's very tough."
Aiden O'Brien said: "It's incredible. She's a very good filly."
1,000 Guineas winners
2011: Blue Bunting
2010: Special Duty
2009: Ghanaati
2008: Natagora
2007: Finsceal Beo
Stoner Makes it Two Wins
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City Go Yaya at St James' Park
Manchester City have one hand on the Premier League trophy after Yaya Toure's double fired them to a 2-0 success over Newcastle United at St James' Park.
Having climbed to the top of the table on goal difference with Monday's derby victory over Manchester United, Roberto Mancini's men opened up a three-point advantage over Sir Alex Ferguson's side who host Swansea later on Sunday.
City now know that they will celebrate their first top-flight crown since 1968 if they can overcome relegation-threatened Queens Park Rangers, and former manager Mark Hughes, at the Etihad Stadium next weekend.
A tense afternoon on Tyneside was settled by two goals from Toure, with the Ivory Coast international given more freedom by the introduction of midfield enforcer Nigel de Jong in place of Samir Nasri in the 61st minute.
The deadlock was broken just nine minutes later as Toure curled home a superb shot from outside the box which gave Tim Krul no chance after exchanging passes with Sergio Aguero, with De Jong also involved in the build-up to the goal.
With the Magpies pushing for an equaliser in their UEFA Champions League chase, City broke from a corner with Toure sweeping the ball home from close range after a neat move involving Aguero, De Jong and Gael Clichy.
City's last triumph 44 years ago came courtesy of a 4-3 win at St James' Park, and this victory could prove almost as pivotal.
Mancini's players celebrated just as lustily as their fans high in the stand behind Krul's goal after the final whistle with the promise of glory tantalisingly close.
With the vast majority of a raucous crowd of 52,389 behind them, the Magpies flew out of the blocks to pin the visitors back inside their own half, although without ever looking like troubling keeper Joe Hart.
But as the half wore on, City's class and guile saw them gradually ease into a position of dominance.
With Carlos Tevez and David Silva targeting right-back James Perch, playing in yet another role with Danny Simpson injured, they threatened to open the scoring on several occasions before the break.
That they did not was testament to Krul and the stubborn refusal of the men in front of him to concede.
Perch and Yohan Cabaye blocked shots from Nasri and Toure in quick succession and Krul produced excellent saves to deny first Silva and then Aguero from close range inside the opening 17 minutes with Mancini's men flexing their muscles.
Newcastle were sinking ever deeper towards their own goalline in an effort to keep City at bay, but from somewhere, they found the strength to first stem the tide, and then turn it in their direction.
Demba Ba, without a goal in 12 games, sent a 29th-minute shot on the turn just over after Hatem Ben Arfa's spring-heeled run down the right and then saw another snapshot blocked by Clichy before Ben Arfa forced a superb diving save from Hart from the rebound.
Ba then headed over from Ben Arfa's 40th-minute cross after good work from Jonas Gutierrez with a breathless contest showing no sign of abating.
However, it took heroic blocks from first Fabricio Coloccini and then Davide Santon to keep out Gareth Barry four minutes before the break.
Krul's clean sheet was in peril once again within seven minutes of the restart when Perch tripped Tevez after the Argentinian had wriggled away from him, but Toure's free-kick flew harmlessly over the bar.
Such was Newcastle's determination not to concede that winger Gutierrez turned up inside his own penalty area to head Silva's 53rd-minute cross clear, and Krul had to make a smart save from Tevez's snapshot from distance.
But with the pace of Ben Arfa and Cisse worrying City on the break, Newcastle not only managed to keep them out, but to press them back.
Mancini decided the time for change had arrived and with 61 minutes gone, replaced Nasri with De Jong, the man whose tackle last season left Ben Arfa with a double leg fracture, a fact which had obviously not been forgotten by the home fans.
Ben Arfa almost provided the Dutchman with the perfect welcome within three minutes when, after being picked out by Ba, he twisted and turned his way in on goal, only to screw his right-foot shot wide.
De Jong's arrival allowed Toure to push further forward, and the move paid dividends with 20 minutes remaining.
Seconds after Edin Dzeko had replaced Tevez, Toure exchanged passes with Aguero 25 yards out and guided a curling right-foot shot past Krul and into the bottom corner.
It should have been all over within five minutes when Silva played in Aguero over the top, but with just Krul to beat, he side-footed wide.
Cisse might have claimed a point with a close-range header from substitute Shola Ameobi's 79th-minute cross, but for once, he failed to hit the target.
Toure should have made sure six minutes from time, but fell over as he attempted to round Krul, who managed to touch over Aguero's follow-up.
But the powerhouse midfielder wrapped up the points with a minute remaining when he accepted Clichy's pass six yards out and beat Krul to end Newcastle's hopes of a fightback.
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