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01 Jun 08 18:36, you wrote to All:

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 K> Giro d'Italia - Contador crowned champion

 K> Eurosport - Sun, 01 Jun 17:26:00 2008

 K> Spain's Alberto Contador became the first non-Italian rider to win the
 K> Giro d'Italia in 12 years on Sunday after resisting the challenge from
 K> second-place Riccardo Ricco of Italy in the final time trial to Milan.

 K>     * Stage 21: As it happened

 K> The 2007 Tour de France winner finished the three-week race 1min57sec
 K> ahead of Ricco, while Marzio Bruseghin, also of Italy, took third at
 K> 2min54sec.

 K> Contador is the first Spaniard to win the Giro since Miguel Indurain
 K> successive victories in 1992/93.

 K> The 25-year-old Astana rider started the final day with a slender four
 K> second advantage over main rival Ricco (Saunier Duval) but his
 K> superior time trialing skills were enough to ensure that for the first
 K> time since Pavel Tonkov's triumph in 1996 it was a foreign rider - and
 K> not an Italian - who topped the podium in Milan.

 K> The final 28.5km individual time trial from Cesana to Milan was won by
 K> Italy's Marco Pinotti of Team High Road who set the surprise best time
 K> of 32min45sec.

 K> Pinotti's team-mate, the German rider Tony Martin, took second place
 K> at 7sec while Russia's Mikhail Ignatiev finished third, at 10sec.

 K> Contador, who set the 11th best time at 39sec, looked in control of
 K> his destiny throughout the pan-flat finale, bettering Ricco at every
 K> time check.

 K> 24-year-old Ricco, who finished the race in the white jersey as the
 K> best young rider, finished 2min32sec behind Pinotti to secure second
 K> place on the podium.

 K> Bruseghin (Lampre), who finished the time trial three seconds slower
 K> than compatriot Franco Pellizotti, managed to secure the final podium
 K> berth by just two seconds over the Liquigas rider.

 K> Time trial specialist Bruseghin was the bookmakers' favourite to take
 K> the race against the clock, but only managed the 26th best time after
 K> an arduous week in the mountains.

 K> Compatriot Emanuele Sella (CSF Navigare), winner of three stages
 K> during the event, won the green jersey for best climber, while another
 K> Italian, Daniele Bennati of the Liquigas team, won the cyclamen jersey
 K> for best sprinter.

 K> Overall standings: top ten
 K> 1. Alberto Contador (Spain / Astana ) 89hrs 56mins 49sec
 K> 2. Riccardo Ricco (Italy / Saunier Duval ) +1 min 57sec
 K> 3. Marzio Bruseghin (Italy / Lampre ) +2:54"
 K> 4. Franco Pellizotti (Italy / Liquigas ) +2:56"
 K> 5. Denis Menchov (Russia / Rabobank ) +3:37"
 K> 6. Emanuele Sella (Italy / CSF Group ) +4:31"
 K> 7. Jurgen Van den Broeck (Belgium / Silence - Lotto ) +6:30"
 K> 8. Danilo Di Luca (Italy / Team LPR ) +7:15"
 K> 9. Domenico Pozzovivo (Italy / CSF Group ) +7:53"
 K> 10. Gilberto Simoni (Italy / Diquigiovanni ) +11:03"
 K> Felix Lowe / Eurosport


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