Is this real? - Dutch rookie Van der Hoorn clings on for Giro win
Italy’s Filippo Ganna increased his lead by three seconds to 16 seconds. By AFP Monday 10 May 2021, 6:56 PM Mon 6:56 PM 3,840 Views 2 Comments
Winner winner: Taco van der Hoorn crosses the finish line.
Image: Imago/PA Images
Image: Imago/PA Images
DUTCH ROOKIE TACO van der Hoorn held off a chasing pack in the final kilometre to win the third stage of the Giro d’Italia in Canale on Monday.
On his first Giro, Van der Hoorn was part of a break that escaped the main pack five kilometres into the 190-kilometre stage.
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Greg LeMond can’t quite believe it.
“I keep going, ‘Why me?’” the three-time Tour de France winner told me earlier this week.
On Dec. 4, President Trump signed a bill to award the 59-year-old LeMond the Congressional Gold Medal, an honor that required the approval of both the House and Senate and is considered the highest civilian award Congress can bestow. Past recipients include Thomas Edison, Charles Lindbergh and Rosa Parks. The brief list of athlete recipients is similarly iconic, with names like Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson and Arnold Palmer.
Now the group includes LeMond, the Nevada-raised cyclist who captivated the sport in the 1980s, becoming the first American to win the Tour de France in 1986 and then recovering from a near-fatal hunting accident to win two more Tours in 1989 and 1990.