导出博客文章LIMOGES, France -- Hit by a virus, denied a place on the Tour de France and then
parting company with his team, not much went right last season for German
sprinter Marcel Kittel.Now hes back with a vengeance.Kittel claimed his ninth
stage win at cyclings biggest race in a mass sprint on Tuesday, as the fourth
leg of the Tour took the peloton from the medieval town of Saumur to Limoges in
central France.For me the victory means a lot, because I know how hard my way
back to this moment was, said Kittel, who was fighting back the tears at the
podium ceremony.Kittel, who wore the race leaders yellow jersey in 2013 and
2014, joined the Etixx Quick Step team from Giant-Alpecin for this season,
replacing the departing Mark Cavendish.The new partnership has been extremely
successful so far. Kittel has been the dominant sprinter this year, claiming 11
victories including back-to-back stage wins at the Giro dItalia.At the Tour, he
got off to a disappointing start, getting beaten by Cavendish in the opening
stage and missing out on a chance to wear the yellow jersey. So when the German
held off Frenchman Bryan Coquards surge in a photo finish in Limoges, it was a
huge relief.Last year was a huge setback. But I tried to take action to make
changes for my future and to be able to win stages again at the Tour, Kittel
said. I live for my sport. I never did anything else -- contrary to what some
critics said.Kittel began his final surge for the line a little too early for
comfort. But he just managed to hang on and edge Coquard.I feel very emotional
right now, it feels like my first stage win again, Kittel said. Im mega, mega
happy. Im very proud, because the team was really fighting for this win. Things
went wrong in the last days, and Im so happy to be back in the Tour and to win a
stage like this.World champion Peter Sagan finished third on the 237.5-kilometer
ride and kept the yellow jersey. Courtesy of a time bonus, he extended his lead
over Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe to 12 seconds in the overall standings.
Spaniard Alejandro Valverde is third, 14 seconds back.It was a very fast sprint,
I started too early today, the same time as Marcel started, Sagan said. Coquard
made a very nice sprint. He was patient and almost won.Coquards aggressive burst
for the line almost paid off with his first stage win in cyclings showpiece
event. He brushed shoulders with Kittel in the slightly uphill final stretch,
but lost by a few millimeters.I think I belong with the greats now, Coquard
said. There is no mistake in the sprints, the stronger wins. I was never as
close to victory, but I havent won yet. Im young, but Im a winner... and I want
to win this year on the Tour.After a first attack fizzled out soon after the
start, a group of four riders managed to escape from the pack and build up a
five-minute lead over the peloton.Tour debutants Oliver Naesen and Alexis
Gougeard, alongside Markel Irizar and Andreas Schillinger, made their move near
the 30-kilometer mark and quickly increased the gap, helped by a tail
wind.Determined to defend Sagans yellow jersey, the Tinkoff team hit the front
of the bunch to step up the pace in hot and sunny conditions. They organized the
chase with sprint-specialist teams Lotto-Soudal and Etixx, and the gap was down
to four minutes with 100 kilometers left.However, the pack was in no rush to
rein in the breakaway riders on the winding roads of the lush green Limousin
countryside.Gougeard was dropped from the leading group with 35 kilometers left,
moments before the pursuit really started in the hilly finale to Limoges. The
remaining trio was swallowed up during a short climb seven kilometers from the
finish.On the eve of the first mountain stage, the races main favorites Chris
Froome and Nairo Quintana enjoyed a quiet day. Froome, a two-time Tour champion,
is in fifth position overall, 18 seconds behind Sagan. Quintana is seventh with
the same time as Froome.Wednesdays Stage 5 features four difficult climbs
including the second-category Pas de Peyrol, the highest road pass in the Massif
Central with an average gradient of 8.1 percent.
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paced the Blue Jackets with a standout game Saturday night. He had a goal and
two assists for a career-high three points as Columbus beat the New York
Islanders 5-2 to snap a five-game losing streak. EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Odell
Beckham Jr. had a scarlet welt growing between his right eye and ear, the
apparent result of his lost sideline fight with a kicking net. It resembled a
boxers mouse, actually, making it a good time to give the New York Giants
receiver a history lesson in the bittersweet science.Just because Jake LaMotta
fought Sugar Ray Robinson six times doesnt mean the two belonged in the same
ring. In other words, Josh Norman is a very good football player. But Josh
Norman also has no chance to ever be as good a football player as Odell Beckham
Jr.On Sunday afternoon in MetLife Stadium, Norman honored his chief
responsibility by keeping his opponent out of the end zone and helping
the?Washington Redskins?to a desperately needed 29-27 victory. Of course, on the
first play of the fourth quarter, Beckham was so wide open that he could have
moonwalked into the end zone for a 75-yard score had Eli Manning?only seen him
on the left side with his arm up, signaling for the ball.Manning instead threw
to Sterling Shepard, and Norman ended up committing a personal foul on the play,
the only unsportsmanlike penalty called between the cornerback and receiver who
combined for five last season in their Giants-Panthers steel-cage match.
Beckhams most flagrant offense on this day came when he responded to a brutal
Manning interception by angrily swinging his helmet into that kicking net, which
punched back by hitting Beckhams face with its crossbar.I dont remember, Beckham
said when asked how he got the resulting scratch.He didnt remember a lot of
things as he addressed reporters at his locker, including his sideline tantrum,
whether he indeed started crying during the tantrum, and whether he felt Norman
deserved to be flagged when the Giants scored their first touchdown on Shane
Vereens 1-yard run in the opening quarter. On that play, Beckham leaped
deceptively as if going for a jump ball, inspiring a confused Norman to grab him
in the air, carry him six steps and then drop him gently to the ground in front
of an official, while raising his arms in I-didnt-do-anything form.The only
meaningful thing Beckham claimed to remember was the warning officials gave him
before the game.Yeah, they implemented a new rule this year, he said. Its
basically the Odell Beckham Jr. rule. I had three personal fouls last year so
... today they came up before the game and said, If you do anything, were
throwing you out of the game. And that was before the game. There was no, You
get a warning. There was no any of that.So youve just got to be on your best
behavior. Unfortunately, thats what its come to. Its not really football anymore
as much as it is all the other things that play into it.But heres the one thing
above all that Beckham needs to take away from this rematch with Norman: He cant
ever look at these Giants-Redskins games to come as anything outside the norm of
a divisional duel that could make or break a teams season. In 2007, the 0-2
Giants made a late and improbable goal-line stand at Washington to salvage their
season and ultimately win the Super Bowl. Could the 2016 Redskins use Sua
Cravens late and improbable interception of Manning to turn an 0-2 start into a
season to remember? Hey, crazier NFL things have happened.So Beckham has to rise
above the Norman rivalry for those team-centric reasons -- and for the simple
fact that Norman isnt his caliber of athlete. At age 23, Beckham is already the
most explosive offensive player the Giants have dressed in more than 90 years of
competition. He has the talent to supplant Antonio Brown as the leagues top
receiver and to join Jerry Rice and Randy Moss among the all-time greats.With
107 of his 121 receiving yards on Sunday coming at Normans expense, Beckham
cleared 3,000 career receiving yards in his 30th game, something no receiver
dead or alive had accomplished. He also reached 200 career receptions faster
than anyone before him. Though he didnt score against Washington, Beckham is
averaging .8833 touchdowns per game; Rice averaged .dddddddddddd660 and Moss
.712 across the regular season and postseason. Meanwhile, Norman doesnt rate the
same way historically. He has seven interceptions in 61 regular-season and
postseason games, an average of one per 8.57 games. Darrelle Revis, the
cornerback he replaced as the NFLs best, has averaged an interception every 4.42
regular-season and postseason games, and Deion Sanders, the presumed best corner
ever, averaged a pick every 3.45 games.This is why Beckham was quoted in GQ over
the summer as saying that Norman made a smart business move in taking the $75
million deal with Washington and booking twice-a-year matchups with the Giants.
Beckham said he had made his own mistakes in bringing people to your level who
dont deserve to be there. Theyre trying to bite off your so-called fame, make a
name off you. Though Norman deserves more credit than that -- he was essentially
fired by Carolina -- it is true that the corner has a lot more to gain from the
continuation of this feud than the receiver who lost his cool near the bench
this time, and not on the field.Giants rookie coach Ben McAdoo tried talking to
his ranting (and crying?) receiver, and so did Manning.I was trying to figure
out what was going on, why he was getting frustrated, the quarterback said. He
was getting catches. He was making plays and we just need everybody to stay
calm. We dont need to get rattled. We dont need to get fired up. You can get
excited, celebrate with your teammates. But we just need to do a better job
offensively, everybody, to stay calm and stay in our rhythm.For Manning, this is
about as close to a public rebuke of a teammate as hell get. He watched Beckham
slam his helmet into the ground after a loss to San Francisco two years ago, and
he watched him melt down against Normans Panthers last season, a performance
that did nothing to help former Giants coach Tom Coughlin keep his job. ESPN
confirmed a report that Beckham was fined $36,000 for delivering a blind
crackback block last week on the Saints Kenny Vaccaro.Clearly, Beckham is
struggling to funnel his passion into positive thoughts and actions.If I was
you, you, you, you, any of you, he said to reporters, and were playing pinball
and your score is 36,000, I want 36,001. It doesnt matter who it is. I love to
compete and I hate losing.Today, I think we did a great job in making it a lot
about football, even though there were a lot of outside implications that went
on that predetermined the matchup before it happened -- instead of letting us
play football, which weve been doing all of our lives.Given the officials
pregame lecture, Beckham said he was surprised he wasnt ejected when called for
offensive pass interference on his teams final drive. As it turned out, after
Beckham started making one-handed catches and sideline spin moves and stiff-arms
that left Norman in his dust earlier in the fourth quarter, center Weston
Richburg was the one Giant to get tossed for taunting, a foolish breakdown that
did no favors for the line.Norman said the officials had also warned him not to
make a mockery of the game, and despite his personal foul, he heeded those
words. He met with the Giants receiver on the field afterward in a mutual (if
temporary) show of respect.Were just two fierce competitors, thats all it is,
Beckham said. We love football. We feel like this has turned into something that
is not football.Truth is, Norman and Beckham are more responsible than the media
for starting and extending this sideshow, and its on Beckham to stop it. Hes
five years younger than Norman, more gifted than Norman and headed places
Normans never going to reach.As he left the building Sunday evening wearing
headphones and his boxers welt, Beckham should have remembered that a beautiful
fighter never lets a lesser man trap him against the ropes. ' ' '
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