Silva is first Uruguayan to win a Grand Tour stage
Nearly 20 riders involved in crash 198km into route
Guillermo Thomas Silva won stage two of the Giro d’Italia to become the first Uruguayan to win a Grand Tour stage after a dramatic sprint after a crash involving nearly 20 riders disrupted the hilly, rain-soaked 221 km ride from Burgas to Veliko Tarnovo in Bulgaria.
The race was temporarily neutralised after the crash around the 198km mark which left several riders injured, and forced the Australian Jay Vine and Norwegian Adne Holter to abandon. The Spaniard Florian Stork finished second and Giulio Ciccone of Italy was third, as the XDS Astana rider Thomas Silva took the pink jersey from the stage one winner, France’s Paul Magnier.
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This building was erected in 1887 as a mission church of St John’s in an area deemed to be a spiritual 'no man's land'. At the time of the rebuilding of St John's (1887) in Halifax Street,
the Reverend Frederic Slaney Poole decided to put any superfluous materials and fittings to good use by erecting a mission church. He explained in 'A Pastoral Letter' to his parishioners in 1886 that it was only because of the 'circumstances of the colony' at the time that the Mission Church was re-erected from the old St John's Church. South Australia at this time was caught in a depression period which continued through almost to the end of the nineteenth
century.
It is a severely detailed Gothic building, well constructed of brick, with a bell tower which is a
noteworthy feature.
Environmentally this building is perhaps anachronistic in its present surrounds, being isolated from its historical context in an area of commercial uses. Built to serve a former poor, residential area, this building recalls the earlier residential nature and character of this part of the city.
AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Het housefestival Music On in Amsterdam gaat dit weekeinde definitief niet door. De gemeente heeft zaterdag op het laatste moment de vergunning voor het feest ingetrokken. De organisator spande een kort geding aan om het besluit terug te laten draaien, maar de rechter heeft dat afgewezen. De reden daarvoor is nog niet bekend.
Het festival is met 20.000 bezoekers uitverkocht. Het zou zaterdag om 12.00 uur zijn begonnen in het Meerpark in de wijk Watergraafsmeer. Dat mocht niet doorgaan omdat de Omgevingsdienst van de gemeente een negatief advies had gegeven over de tentconstructies op het terrein. Daardoor kan de veiligheid van de aanwezigen volgens de gemeente niet gegarandeerd worden.
Het is niet bekend of bezoekers hun geld terugkrijgen.