HOME favourite Vincenzo Nibali strengthened his grip on the Giro d’Italia race lead with a commanding victory in the Stage 18 mountain time-trial in the Dolomites yesterday.
OSCAR PISTORIUS will not compete again this year as he awaits trial for murder, despite receiving a number of meeting invitations, his agent has confirmed.
HOME riders ruled the roost in the Tour of Italy yesterday as Turin’s Giovanni Visconti pedalled through a near-blizzard to take a high mountain stage win and Sicilian Vincenzo Nibali maintained his stranglehold on the overall lead.