MILAAN (ANP/BELGA) - Klassementsleider Jonas Vingegaard wil zich in de laatste week van de Ronde van Italië niet alleen focussen op het behoud van zijn roze trui, maar ook nog minstens een etappe winnen. Dat zei de Deen van Visma - Lease a Bike maandag tijdens een online persconferentie op de laatste rustdag.

Vingegaard kan zondag in Rome de achtste renner ooit worden die alle drie de grote ronden op zijn erelijst heeft staan. De eindzege alleen is voor hem niet genoeg. "Ik ga zeker niet alleen maar verdedigen. We kiezen in de derde week nog enkele dagen waar we voor onze kansen gaan. Hoeveel dagen en welke, dat ga ik hier niet zeggen. Dat zullen jullie wel zien."

De Deense klimmer is in zijn achterhoofd ook al bezig met de Tour de France, waar hij in juli de ongenaakbare Tadej Pogacar wil uitdagen. "Met het oog op de Tour wil ik hier niet voor iedere rit gaan die nog komt, want dan zou ik het zwaarder maken dan nodig is. Ik denk al aan de Tour, maar ik wil ook deze Giro nog eren. Daarom wil ik een rit winnen in de roze trui. Dat zou ook voor mij speciaal zijn."

Crooswijk stond ooit bekend als hechte arbeidersbuurt, maar onderging de afgelopen tientallen jaren ingrijpende veranderingen. De wijk blijft zich ontwikkelen en verhippen, onder meer met de komst van het Net5-programma Het Blok. Wat vinden de buurtbewoners ervan?

Crooswijk stond ooit bekend als hechte arbeidersbuurt, maar onderging de afgelopen tientallen jaren ingrijpende veranderingen. De wijk blijft zich ontwikkelen en verhippen, onder meer met de komst van het Net5-programma Het Blok. Wat vinden de buurtbewoners ervan?

• Gkolomeev’s 50m freestyle ‘record’ brings relief

• Glitzy night lacks excitement forecast by organisers

They promised multiple world records. To redefine what the human body is capable of with performance enhancing drugs. Even to change sport forever. But by the end of the inaugural Enhanced Games in Las Vegas organisers were left with one abiding emotion. Relief.

Only in the final event of the night, after more than five hours of competition, could they lay claim to having gone quicker than an official world record as Greek swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev swam 20.81sec in the men’s 50m freestyle.

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From Wissa’s solitary goal for Newcastle to Postecoglou’s brief reign at Forest, it’s been a campaign to forget for some

Newcastle’s year-long chase to sign Yoane Wissa from Brentford felt like it would never end until they paid £55m for his services in September. The Democratic Republic of the Congo forward arrived after banging in 19 goals for Brentford last season and was supposed to lead the charge for Eddie Howe in the Premier League and Europe. In reality it has been a whimpering experience. Admittedly, none of Newcastle’s attacking recruitment paid off; Wissa sat on the bench alongside £65m Nick Woltemade and £55m Anthony Elanga in the April defeat away to Crystal Palace where the manager preferred to start Jacob Murphy and Will Osula. Wissa has scored once in 13 league appearances, starting only four times because he does not fit into the system and has not built the level of rapport he had with Bryan Mbeumo. The team as a whole has struggled, finishing 12th, a drop of seven places from last season, meaning they will not be returning to Europe. With Anthony Gordon expected to depart in the coming months, having faith in the reinvestment is not a given.

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After years of procrastination, even the most trivial task felt like climbing a mountain. Then I discovered the pomodoro technique – and how much I could achieve in just 25 minutes

Long before I knew what a 9 to 5 was, I struggled to get things done. When I was a child, I avoided showers for as long as possible and put off brushing my waist-length hair. My mum ended up cutting it into a bob to help me manage it.

During my degree, this tendency to procrastinate meant I was regularly pulling all-nighters in the library, writing 3,000-word essays in single evenings, fuelled by energy drinks and snacks. I told myself that I worked better under pressure – and in a way I did, since it always got done. But the relief of submitting work was always overshadowed by the same question – why had I put myself through that again?

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Dangers include unintended pregnancies, taking unnecessary medication and missed diagnoses, say experts

Misinformation about perimenopause is putting women at risk of unintended pregnancies, unnecessary medication and missed diagnoses, experts have said.

Awareness of menopause and treatments such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has been raised by efforts including a prominent documentary by Davina McCall.

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The latest in our ongoing series of writers celebrating their most rewatched comfort films is a pick for 1996’s revealing and relatable romantic thriller

I’m not necessarily inclined towards what might typically be dubbed “feelgood”. No, you won’t find me seduced by a happy ending, nor am I partial to the oeuvre of Disney (in fact, I find all the talking animals and poreless princesses a bit grotesque). The raw edges and friction of feelbad have tended to be much better suited to my tastes: the porno chic slasher Knife+Heart, the sartorial murder of In Fabric and the snuff film-obsessed Thesis. Sex and gore, basically. For a long time, my favourite film was Crimes of the Future: a stomach-churning body horror about sexual-surgical experiments.

However, there is one movie that reveals a slightly soft(er)core side to my viewing habits, which I frequently return to in order to feel the gushy feelings and butterflies of a school crush. That film is Bound. The 1996 directorial debut from the Wachowski sisters, the plot revolves around an opposites-attract scenario which is both familiar and high stakes: plumber Corky, and mafia moll Violet. When their eyes meet across an elevator, the tiny vestibule becomes thick with sexual tension: it is so on.

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The measure is the latest in a series of restrictions on Armenian goods introduced as relations between Moscow and Yerevan deteriorate.