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Vaitkus Wins Stage at Giro d'Italia |
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Įrašė Moacir P. de Sá Pereira
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2006.05.16 09.59 |
 T. Vaitkus celebrates. Velonews.com Aidas posted today to the mailing list that Tomas Vaitkus won the ninth stage of the Giro d'Italia, beating out the pack (and Robbie McEwen) to sprint to the front. As Velo News reports, Vaitkus is the first Lithuanian to win a Giro stage. Vaitkus is racing for Ag2r, as he has since last year. Vaitkus is in fifth place for the cyclamen jersey, trailing behind McEwen. His performance over the weekend bested his previos third place finish in the sixth stage last Friday. Velo News continues with this bit of suavity on Vaitko part: During the post-race press conference in the small - and packed - classroom of the elementary school that hosted the world's cycling media, Vaitkus said he'd won the stage so that he could meet the woman who ended up doing the Lithuanian-to-Italian translation. Turns out her main job at the Giro is as a podium girl, and she had asked several of the riders she's presented flowers to in the preceding days to say hi to the peloton's only Lithuanian rider. "I guess this was the best way to meet her," Vaitkus joked.
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