Saturday Sport: Giro, Aussie Rules, Premier Soccer

May 20, 2017 From: Speed o Rex In Italy: Tom Dumoulin leads the overall in edition 100 of the Giro d’Italia ahead of Nairo Quintana and Bauke Mollema. Today's Giro d'Italia features a stage, which at 131 kilometres, travels from Castellania to Oropa. It is a compact route on flat roads, with a steep finale climb to a sanctuary, an irregular 11.8 kilometres , almost straight uphill at 6.2% with steepest sectors of up to 13%. It is an irregular ascent with the most unwelcoming sectors from kilometre 5 onward. The first three riders on the line take time bonuses of 10, 6 and 4 seconds, while the last intermediate sprint (at kilometre 126.6) comes with 3, 2 and 1 seconds. Today's stage could really shake up the General Classification. The day's Aussie Rules Football Premiership season features contests between St. Kilda and the Sydney Swans, GWS Giants vs. Richmond, the Hawthorn vs. Collingwood at the Melbourne Cricket Grounds and the Brisbane Lions vs. Adelaide Cr...