Novak Djokovic light-heartedly donned a cycling crash helmet on Saturday after being hit on the head by a water bottle at the Rome Open but insisted he was feeling "fine"."Thank you for the messages of concern," Djokovic wrote Saturday on X. "This was an accident and I am fine resting at the hotel with an ice pack.
Spain's Pelayo Sanchez of the Movistar team emerged from the dust, gravel and hills after a 180km ride through Tuscan vineyards to beat Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe by a bike length in the Giro d'Italia sixth stage on Thursday.This sixth of 21 stages then was raced just as frantically as the previous five on a nervy Giro d'Italia still led by the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar.
Frenchman Benjamin Thomas outfoxed the three other members of a late breakaway to take stage five of the Giro d'Italia in Lucca on Wednesday. The rolling 178-kilometre stage from Genoa, with the only serious climb less than a third of the way in, was set up for a mass sprint finish in the hometown of Italy's greatest sprinter, Mario Cipollini -- who holds the record for most Giro stage wins at 42.