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| Giro d’Italia: Simon Gerrans takes pink jersey after team time trial | |
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| Simon Gerrans put a miserable start to the season behind him when he snatched the overall leader’s pink jersey at the Giro d’Italia after his Orica-GreenEdge outfit won the opening team time trial on Saturday. | |
| Gerrans, who has suffered four crashes this season, breaking his collarbone and fracturing his elbow, was first across the line as Orica-GreenEdge clocked a best time of 19min 26sec over 17.6km between San Lorenzo al Mare and San Remo. | |
| The Australian team beat Alberto Contador’s Tinkoff-Saxo by seven seconds, with the Spaniard being the best placed of the top contenders after the first stage. | |
| “We’re very happy, we put a lot of work into this team time trial even if we’re not a team of specialists,” Tinkoff-Saxo’s Michael Rogers said. | |
| Contador is looking to become the first man to achieve a Giro-Tour de France double since the late Marco Pantani of Italy in 1998. | |
| He leads the Italian Fabio Aru, third overall last year, by six seconds after the local hope’s Astana team took third place. “I’m very happy with the way we rode. We can do anything during the race,” Aru said. | |
| Rigoberto Urán, runner-up in the last two years, lies 12 seconds behind Contador after Etixx-Quick Step finished fourth 19 seconds off the pace. Richie Porte, Contador’s main rival in the Giro, suffered a setback when Team Sky ended up ninth, 27 seconds behind the winners. |