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Domenico Pozzovivo crashes on high speed decent as overall leader Michael Matthews wins stage three of the Giro d'Italia.
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Domenico Pozzovivo lies motionless after a truly awful crash in the Giro d'Italia. This was the moment he came off on a high speed decent, the race doctor says his injuries are serious but under control.That really overshadowed the rest of the action on the third stage, a reasonably short 136-kilometre trek but the hills make it as tough as any. Katusha's Pavel Kochetkov started his bid for a win on the second catagorised climb, he was easily the quickest up the hill.The Russian was reeled in by a three-man pursuit group with ten kilometres to go.But the winner would not come from that group as the peloton caught them with three kilometres to go.Then we had a sprint finish, overall leader Michael Matthews came out on top, edging out Italy's Fabio Felline and Philippe Gilbert of Belgium.
SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael Matthews, Giro d'Italia stage winner and overall leader:
"It's been dream come true so far for this Giro d'Italia this year. We planned for the team's time trial win and this was another goal for us, this was stage three and, we reconned it (performed reconnaissance of the course) last week, so we knew what was coming and we knew what to expect. So, yes, from then on it was just try and, try and do as best as we could and yes, we pulled it off."
It's fair to say the Australian looks pretty comfortable in pink out at the front.
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Horror crash at Giro d'Italia
Tuesday, May 12 2015Category:Others