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RTÉ News
5 days ago
- Sport
- RTÉ News
Nicolas Prodhomme solos clear for stage win as Isaac Del Toro tightens grip on pink jersey
Nicolas Prodhomme won stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia as Isaac Del Toro boosted his overall lead ahead of this weekend's finale. Frenchman Prodhomme (Decathlon AG2R Mondiale) powered to his first Grand Tour victory after breaking away from a group at the front to go on his own with just under 30 of the 166 kilometres from Biella to Champoluc to go. Around a minute behind him in second was Del Toro (UAE Team Emirates), with general classification rival Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) closely following in third. Tyrone's Darren Rafferty (EF Education-Easypost) crossed the line over 32 minutes after Prodhomme, nine minutes ahead of compatriot Sam Bennett who finished with the final group of riders. Rafferty is 84th in the general classification, while Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team's Bennett is 146th overall. Carapaz attacked late on but Del Toro went with him and managed to outsprint him at the end. It gave the Mexican another two seconds over second-placed Carapaz in the GC, with Del Toro's advantage standing at 43 seconds heading into Saturday's penultimate 205km stage from Verres to Sestriere. The gap to Great Britain's Simon Yates (Team Visma) in third has grown from 51 seconds to a minute and 21 seconds after he was among the group that finished behind Del Toro and Carapaz in Friday's race. Prodhomme said: "I've waited a long time for a win but I won my first race three weeks ago (a stage at the Tour of the Alps) and now to win here, the WorldTour at the Giro d'Italia, I am very, very happy. "When I followed the first attack, my feeling was not very good. My legs were very bad for the first climb, it is very steep and hard. "Kilometre after kilometre my legs were better and on the last, I saw the gap was not very big and I needed to take a risk. "Before today, I'd had two top fives because I didn't take a lot of risks. Today, I wanted to play for the win and it's very nice for me."
The Advertiser
25-04-2025
- Sport
- The Advertiser
Aussie Storer rides to glory in the Tour of the Alps
Australian Michael Storer has ridden to the biggest triumph of his flourishing cycling career, pedalling brilliantly to the Tour of the Alps title in Austria.
Perth Now
25-04-2025
- Sport
- Perth Now
Aussie Storer rides to glory in the Tour of the Alps
Australian Michael Storer has ridden to the biggest triumph of his flourishing cycling career, pedalling brilliantly to the Tour of the Alps title in Austria. The 28-year-old Perth rider, who's in the form of his life, outclassed a high-quality field in the mountainous five-day stage-race, overturning an 11-second deficit overnight to completely eclipse the Dutch leader Thymen Arensman on Friday and take the overall crown by an emphatic one-minute 31-second margin. Storer, giving his ambitious Swiss team Tudor Pro their biggest victory, had been locked in a final-day duel with Team Ineos leader Arensman, but soon wiped out his deficit when he went on the attack against his rival 35km from home on the penultimate climb of the 112.2km route around the Tyrolean town of Lienz. With another superb demonstration of climbing that no-one else in the field could match, he quickly put a minute into his rival and, helped by a Swedish teammate Lucas Eriksson who'd been part of an early breakaway, Storer was able to fly home home in eighth place on the stage, 1:44 ahead of Arensman. Up ahead, Frenchman Nicolas Prodhomme took the final-stage honours, coming home alongside his brilliant young teenage teammate Paul Seixas, but Storer was in a class of his own with a GC victory that suggests he can be a threat to win the Giro d'Italia which begins in a fortnight. "I'm definitely in good shape and hopefully I can continue this way into the Giro," said Storer, who's enjoyed a couple of Grand Tour stage wins in the past at the Vuelta a Espana. "I'm super, super happy with my week. I just wish it had been a little less complicated of a race." Indeed, it had been an arduous win for Storer, carved out in challenging weather in the toughest ever of the race's 48 editions, featuring 16,000m of climbing. First, he looked to have the race well in control when winning the second stage with a dazzling solo effort, only to have his lead evaporate on Thursday through Arensman's bold lone breakaway. At one point on Thursday, the Dutchman had been more than four minutes ahead of him in the virtual GC standings, forcing the Australian to plough his own courageous lone vigil just to keep in the leader's green jersey hunt. He ended up quite exhausted. "We had to attack every single day," he reflected. "Today, the guys were incredible, and we didn't put a foot wrong - I have to thank every single member of the team, they all put in 110 per cent." Storer is the first Australian since Cadel Evans in 2014 and Richie Porte the following year to take the Alpine title. It was a measure of his excellence that he beat his compatriot, the 2022 Giro winner Jai Hindley, by over six minutes after nearly 20 hours in the saddle. Red Bull BORA-hansgrohe rider Hindley had to settle for eighth place.
SBS Australia
25-04-2025
- Politics
- SBS Australia
Midday News Bulletin 25 April 2025
Listen to Australian and world news, and follow trending topics with . TRANSCRIPT: Police interview a man accused of heckling at this morning's Melbourne Dawn Service; Thousands march through Auschwitz on the 80th anniversary of the camp's liberation; Australia's Michael Storer holding onto hope in the Tour of the Alps. Victorian Police have interviewed a man over a heckling incident at this morning's Anzac Day Dawn Service in Melbourne. They've released a statement saying they expect to charge the 26 year old man on summons with offensive behaviour. The man was allegedly part of a small group of people who disrupted the dawn service at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance, as Bunurong elder Mark Brown delivered the Welcome to Country. "Welcome everybody to my father's country. Beautiful Bunurong country. But before we do that we pay our acknowledgements and our respects." The major party leaders have taken a short break from election campaigning to attend Anzac Day events. The Prime Minister has appeared at the Dawn Service held at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. "We who are gathered here think of those who went out to the battlefields of all wars but did not return. We feel them still near us in spirit. We wish to be worthy of their great sacrifice." The opposition leader Peter Dutton has attended a Brisbane event. "Anzac Day is one of the most significant and most solemn days and sacred days on our national calendars. A day when we honour all Australians who have served suffered and sacrificed in wars and military operations on behalf of our nation. And this Anzac Day we will especially feel the weight of history. 2025 marks 80 years since the end of the second World War. That conflict engulfed almost every continent across every country." Thousands of people have marched through the former Auschwitz Nazi German death camp in Poland in a ceremony to remember the 80th anniversary of its liberation. The annual ceremony known as the March of the Living follows a three-kilometre route to the crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau. This year's march has been joined by 80 Holocaust survivors, among them 87 year old Dr Martin Stern, who was arrested at school and sent to Terezin concentration camp in what's now the Czech Republic. He says humanity must learn from the Holocaust. "If we concentrate exclusively on the Holocaust, we're fighting the last war. We have a war now. We have to deal with the situation that exists today. And it is our duty to learn the facts from both sides, to educate people about them and to assert that every human being has the same right to life, Jew or Arab." Thousands of displaced Sudanese continue to arrive in camps in the North Darfur region of Tawila, as the African country's civil war reaches the two-year mark. UNICEF says the war has created the world's largest humanitarian and displacement crisis, with hundreds of thousands of people trapped by the fighting facing hunger and starvation. UNICEF volunteer Heba Abdullah says the organisation has been providing families and children in the Zamzam and Al-Omda camps with nutrition supplements. 'We are here to provide nutrition support to children between 6 months and 5 years. In some families, 4 or 5 children are suffering from acute malnutrition. We're seeing many cases of both severe and moderate malnutrition. So far, we've helped more than 2,000 children here in the camp, and there are still many more in need of support. We've also spoken with several mothers who told us, our children are not eating at all.' A teenager has been charged with murder after allegedly stabbing to death a shop owner who tried to stop him stealing from his supermarket. The eighteen year old was reportedly on bail when the 71 year old Darwin man was killed. The incident has prompted the Northern Territory government to announce it is reviewing the Top End's bail laws. Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro says the chamber will sit on Wednesday next week to consider tougher bail conditions. "What we want for the Northern Territory is to have the toughest bail laws in this country, and we will continue to work tirelessly on coming to government in those first sittings of parliament." An experimental aircraft made by an Australian-based company has crashed at a military base near the coast of Virginia. US Air Force spokesperson Airman Donnell Ramsey says the incident occurred at the Joint Base Langley-Eustis in the city of Hampton. The plane has been identified as an MX-S single-seater, made by the MX Aircraft company in Perth. The National Transportation Safety Board has said on X it was investigating the accident, without providing more details. Australian rider Michael Storer remains in prime position to claim victory in the Tour of the Alps, despite seeing his lead disappear on the penultimate stage in Austria. The Perth rider was leading by 41 seconds overnight. But he's been forced to chase down an opportunist breakaway by Dutch stage winner Thymen Arensman during the 62.7km fourth 'queen' stage.
The Advertiser
24-04-2025
- Sport
- The Advertiser
Aussie Storer set for epic duel to win Tour of the Alps
Michael Storer has cut a despondent and exhausted figure after seeing his lead in the Tour of the Alps disappear on the penultimate stage in Austria -- but the valiant Australian is still in prime position to achieve the biggest triumph of his career.
