Moena-Ortisei
1 T. Van Garderen USA
2 Mikel Landa Spain
Dumoulin rejects all attacks by Quintana and Nibali
Tomorrow Innichen-Piancavallo. I used to ski at innichen (San Candido).

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Nibali annoyed by Dumoulin's 'cocky' criticism of tactics
Tempers flare with Giro d'Italia third week polemics.
What's the matter with Nibali?

btw. There is still snow in the Italian mountains, Tullio:)

Basta con la Pasta Tullio:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYHHhYhCkaQ
Antonio Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni
La Primavera :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnwuF-MCRuo

Mikel Landa (Team Sky) wins stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia.
Dumoulin is now 30 seconds behind Quintana/Nibali.

San Candido-Piancavallo
1 Mikel Landa Meana Spain
2 Alberto Rui Costa Portugal
3 Jean Rolland France
4 Thibaud Pinot France
Nairo Quintana gets the Maglia Rosa, Tom Dumoulin is second, Vincenzo Nibali third. Tomorrow another climb to Monte Grappa and Asiago, Sunday a chrono race.

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Monte Grappa. Funny name:)
I hope the cyclists don't drink Grappa during the race...

It's a kind of Fort Alamo to Italians. It blocked the Austrian advance after Caporetto. In the Second World War it hosted many partisans. Many of them were captured and hanged at Bassano del Grappa.
Tullio

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Giro d'Italia and Tour de France have history lessons with helicopter views when the contenders pass a village.
At very least here our commentators Roberto Vacchi and Anders Adamsson have.
Both good and bad stories.

The cyclists are climbing Monte Grappa right now.

General classification after stage 20
1 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 90:00:38
2 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:39
3 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ 0:00:43
4 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:00:53
5 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Katusha-Alpecin 0:01:15

Quintana in Maglia Rosa tomorrow.
TT from Monza to Milano.
It's not over yet.

Fonzi has just kick started the final stage of the Giro d'Italia.

GP Monnaco

1. Vettel
2. Raikönnen
3. Riccardo

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Tom Dumoulin is the winner of the Giro d'Italia.

And here is your final GC standings.
1 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb 90:34:54
2 Nairo Quintana 00:00:31
3 Vincenzo Nibali 00:00:40

Arrivederci Italia.

Warming up to Tour de France.
Froome targeting record-breaking fourth Criterium du Dauphine title.

A sports commentator at SVT (Almost like BBC) once called his workplace at the channel, Canale Grande:)
Perhaps not so far fetched.
After all Stockholm is also called Venice of the North.

Venice

Sorry for the silence. I've been at a spa in Rimini to cure my ailing neck with mud baths. They told me a period of 15-20 days is necessary for the cure to have effect. I hope it is true.
Tullio

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GP Moto Catalunya Barcelona
1 Andrea Dovizioso Ducati
2 Marc Marquez Honda
3 Dani Pedrosa Honda
4 Jorge Lorenzo Ducati

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GP Canada
1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2 Valtteri Bottas Mercedes
3 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull
4 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari
Vettel 141 Hamilton 129

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Sorry for the silence. I've been at a spa in Rimini to cure my ailing neck with mud baths. They told me a period of 15-20 days is necessary for the cure to have effect. I hope it is true.
Tullio

Rimini:) Been there.
Not at a spa though.
Only at the beach.
Where I met what I first thought was a dog.
No. It was a young lion coming at me.
The owner had it leashed so I was safe anyway.
Once in a lifetime!

Two news from Italy: the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts is to be transferred from Reading, UK, to a new site near Bologna. It will host a new computer. I haven't been able to find out its architecture, but it will be powered by a 10 MW power line, so it should be a big beast. The Reading Center has a Cray.
Second, an initiative of the Venice State Archives and the Lausanne Polytechnic in Switzerland (EPFL) will build a Time Machine by scanning and digitizing the 80 km long shelves of the Venice State Archives, covering 1000 years of political, economic, military and medical records all contained in the Venice archives, plus paintings and musical sheets. Think of Tiziano, Tintoretto and Antonio Vivaldi. The project is described in the 15 June issue of "Nature". So even if Venice should go covered by the Adriatic Sea because of global warming, its magnificent heritage will not be lost.
Tullio

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