IRELAND’S DAN MARTIN has won the 17th stage of the Giro D’Italia.
The stage took in a 193km journey from Canazei to a summit finish in Sega di Ala and included one of the most difficult climbs of the race, a 11.2km final stretch with a 9.8% average gradient.
The Team Israel Start-Up Nation rider led for much of the stage and pulled away from the breakaway group to take a commanding lead, and while Portugal’s Joao Almeida and Britain’s Simon Yates managed to close the gap, Martin was able to hold out to take the stage.
Martin finished with a time of 4h:54:38, with Almeida 13 seconds behind and Yates coming in third at 30″.
It is the first time Martin has won a stage of the race, meaning he has now won stages in the Giro D’Italia, Tour de France and the Vuelta e Espana.
Martin won stage six of the 2018 Tour de France and stage three of the Vuela last October, completing his hat-trick of Grand Tour stage victories with today’s win.
Colombia’s Egan Bernal retains the overall leader’s pink jersey. The Ineos rider lost time in the final climb but stays in the lead with the race finishing in Milan in four days.
Thursday’s 18th stage between Rovereto and Stradella is a mostly flat 231km ride.
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Unfortunately so are the 3 other semi-finalists!!
@John O Reilly: I love how they’re getting carried away like they’ve won the UCl already
@Scorpionvenomm: who is exactly ?
Ive seen plenty of confidence in this semi final…and undoubtedly the nutter brigade that think the club will win evrytbing (like all clubs have) but overall I wouldnt agree with your tribalist bullsh!t at all.
@Colin Ahern: it’s our year lol
@Scorpionvenomm: who is your team playing the semis?
@John O Reilly: This, I believe, will be Liverpool’s toughest opponent of all the semi finalists.
Probably the worst team to have won the champions league that Rafa Benitez side. He never get enough credit for that.
@Gary O’Hanlon: thats a fact
@Gary O’Hanlon: very true. It is hard to believe that Djimi Traore and Vladamir Smicer have Champions League medals. Even Jerzy Dudek is still wondering how it happened.
@Inanimate Carbon Rod: when you look at that Milan team too. Dida, Maldini, Cafu, Nesta, Stam, Pirlo, Gattuso, Seedorf, Kaka, Shevchenko, Crespo and some decent quality on the bench too. Insane, when you really think about it. I was at the final in 2005 the best sign I saw was “who needs Maldini when we’ve got Djimi” kinda summed up the difference between the teams.
@hyippy: the best players don’t win the CL, the best team does.
@KingBen: They also beat one the greatest Juventus sides of all time in that semi lest ye all bitter b’stards forget.
@KingBen: no shoot Sherlock
@Sean: seriously Sean, glad you agree. Now comment on the ‘shoot’ comment above mine.
Fantastic run in the champions league and outstanding players,,especially mo salah but the sad thing about it is man United will still win more trophys this year than the pool..
@Noel O Mahony: Hope the pitch isn’t too dry for them.
@Paul Furey: sure it was fine when they were two up. Classless Klopp the flop saying they’ll play on it in the championship. Imagine Jose saying that.
@Scorpionvenomm: klopp the flop ? Righteo … Taxi for this lad with the chip on his shoulder
@Colin Ahern: what has he won with Liverpool? And the money he has spent
@Scorpionvenomm: he’s only had 2 full seasons at the helm. How may trophies did the Fergie win in the same time period? Zero.
@Noel O Mahony: whens the parade for the second place trophy? Did I miss it?
@Scorpionvenomm: money spent. I want to see your face when you see the net spend for klopp at liverpool :) 34million surplus. Liverpool have done an arsenal since klopp came. Balanced the books got a great team playing nice football and stadium expansion to compete again
@Scorpionvenomm: He says stuff like that all the time
No doubt about it this is one of the strongest sides Liverpool have had in years. This Roma team won’t be any walkover either. Should be a cracking game.
Handy one for Roma tonight
That’s them jinxed so
Where were you in Istanbul?
Get out of our club
@Ollie Watson: does it still hurt that he won pl with man u
@Ac: With only 3 ever, 60+ years including Ferguson era, MU European success is scant. Nottingham F won 2 and retained it, and this over just a 5 year period of dominance. Given their resources this is a far greater footballing level of achievement.
@Nick Leone: nottingham forest and yourselves apart from 2005 won the European cup when just league winners played so considerably easier to win
@Ac: straight knockout easier to win?? Stop making excuses for Utd being unable to win more in europe during their golden period
@Sam Beckett: straight knockout with less top teams to beat along the way hence two of your final wins were club brugge and borussia monchegladbach hardly powerhouses of europe
@Ac: OK so you claim it’s harder now than it was then. United made 3 finals in the last 15 years. Liverpool are heading for their 3rd in the last 15 years. Add that to the “easier” accomplishments of before Liverpool are still far more successful in Europe than United
@hyippy: When, Back in the stone age??
@Ac: showing your stupidity again I see. Was far harder to win then
@Sam Beckett: I’d say English clubs would of won more if Liverpool didn’t get us all banned from Europe in 1985
@Carl Johnson: definitely easier to win then when half top teams in europe not playing in it
@Scorpionvenomm: we’re not allowed talk about that for some reason thats airbrushed out of history
@Ac: ‘… considerable easier to win …’, same rules apply to all for any given era. should have been no problem to MU and their resources.
@Ac: borussia monchengladbach had half the West German WC winning team 1974. What ever the era the best players and clubs were in the latter stages of European competitions. Where else would they have been? Every countries best club was involved, if they were knocked out that’s because the team that beat them were better.
Of course might MU weren’t involved, that’s because they weren’t mightily – just thought them selves as.
Except Liability Lovern
@Stevie Doran: Lovern made 1 mistake, he was very good v MC. Roma pen was unlucky. This is not a major defense issue. LFC now bookies favorites to win CL. BM would be harder than RM because they can defend and grab a goal. RM over the hill. Ron’s last stand.