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This article was published May 14, 2015 at 19:00.
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The German André Greipel (Lotto Soudal) won the sprint of the sixth stage of the Giro d ‘ Italy, from Montecatini Terme to Castiglione della Pescaia of 183 km., upping Italians Matteo Pelucchi and Sacha Modolo of Lampre. The stage was characterized by a long flight of five men: Grosu, Malaguti, Rutkiewicz, Flag and Marangoni, resumed only in the final.
The sprint was marked by a nasty fall in the last hundred meters because of a spectator who leaned a bit ‘too with a camera. He has borne the brunt Daniele Colli taken to hospital. Also involved the pink jersey Alberto Contador, who still moved up bike and was then medicated for abrasions to the leg.
The Spaniard beat violently his left shoulder and was presented on the podium with his arm immobilized, near the body, failing to wear the pink jersey. Contador still crossed the finish line and did not experience delay, after neutralization of the time took place 3 km from the end of the village. After the fall, the Spaniard was subjected to ice packs on his knees and shoulder. Initially Stefano Feltrin, general manager of the Tinkoff team, had questioned the participation of the Spanish rider to tomorrow’s stage. After x-rays to which Contador has undergone in the evening in the hospital in Grosseto – who ruled leg injuries – the calm has returned to the headquarters of Saxo-Tinkoff: the Spanish rider tomorrow should start regularly for the seventh stage, the Grosseto in Fiuggi of 264 km. Stage-marathon, the longest of the Tour. It might be a good day to groped an escape from afar, partly because control 260 km of the race will not be easy and the last 350 meters are 4% suitable for a starting end. Contador in the overall standings before Fabio Aru 2 “and Richie Porte to 20″.
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