The big English-speaking contingent at the Giro d'Italia has been shaking up that usually locally-dominated race, with American Dave Zabriskie and Australians Robbie McEwen and Brett Lancaster taking stages, and Anglophones seemingly in the action everywhere you look, including somersaulting down the finish straight. But English-speaking riders haven't just been kicking goals in Italy in the last few days.
At the Tour of Japan, the lead changed hands yesterday between two Australians. Eighteen-year-old Mathew Goss (Australian National Team) won Sunday's first stage ahead of team-mate Nick Sanderson, deploying the speed honed over the last couple of years in Tasmania's track carnivals series. Goss handed over the leader's jersey to David McKenzie (Wismilak International Team) yesterday after the 30-year-old took line honours from a six-man break, despite being heavily out-numbered by the Barloworld team, which made up half the break.
