Contador wins, hopes for rare double at Tour

CYCLING: One down, one to go.

Alberto Contador clinched his second Giro d’Italia title on Sunday, and immediately turned his attention to fulfilling his aim of becoming the first cyclist since 1998 to win the Italian classic and the Tour de France in the same year.

“I overcame so many difficulties, but at the end I got the maglia rosa (pink jersey),” Contador said. “I don’t know how long it will take to recover but I think I’ll get back to work on Saturday. It was an emotional Giro. I said it would be my last but you never know.”

Contador had all but secured the win after Saturday’s 20th stage when he saw his lead cut in half but nevertheless headed into the final day – a mainly processional stage to Milan – with more than a two-minute advantage on Fabio Aru.

The 32-year-old Contador has had to dig deep during a troublesome three weeks in Italy, after dislocating his shoulder in an early crash, and is likely to face stiffer competition in the Tour.

“The Tour starts for me now,” the Spaniard said. “Tonight I will rest as much as I can, tomorrow I will go to Spain and take three or four days before I start concentrating again on the Tour in complete isolation.

“My rivals won’t have done the Giro, so the Tour could be more complicated because they won’t have the Giro in their legs.”

Belmont tries to avoid chaos on race day

HORSE RACING: Big changes are coming to Belmont Park when American Pharoah attempts to break a 37-year Triple Crown losing streak Saturday.

Last year, the crowd of 102,000 suffered through long lines at betting windows and bathrooms. Concession stands ran out of refreshments. Spectators spent hours jockeying for space on commuter trains or in jammed parking lots going home.

This year, the track set an attendance cap at 90,000.

There’s also a post-race concert that organizers hope keeps people from dashing for the exits.

The Long Island Rail Road is spending $4 million to upgrade the Belmont Park station in Elmont, New York.

Manziel tosses water bottle at heckler

NFL: Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel threw a water bottle at a heckler in an incident that didn’t lead to any arrests or charges at the AT&T Byron Nelson golf tournament in Irving, Texas.

Manziel had been turning away autograph requests from the fan for about two hours during the third round when an exchange escalated in the pool area of the Four Seasons Resort where the PGAevent is held.

The water bottled missed the 18-year-old male, and someone who was with Manziel pushed the fan, leading officers to intervene. The fan declined to press charges, and no police report was filed.

Dempsey left off U.S. roster for exhibitions

SOCCER: Team captain Clint Dempsey and midfielder Alejandro Bedoya were left off the U.S. team roster for exhibitions at world powers Netherlands and Germany.

Coach Jurgen Klinsmann said that Dempsey will remain in Seattle awaiting the birth of his fourth child and that Bedoya is recovering from a knee injury. The U.S. team will play the sixth-ranked Netherlands on Friday and take on defending World Cup champion Germany on June 10.

Keflezighi runs fastest masters half

MISCELLANY: Meb Keflezighi won the USA Track & Field Masters Half Marathon title in San Diego with a time of 1 hour, 2 minutes, 29 seconds, the fastest ever for a runner 40 or older.

The race, part of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon, was the first competition as a master for Keflezighi.

Keflezighi, best known for his stirring victory in the 2014 Boston Marathon, broke American masters records for 10 miles and 15 kilometers.

Jordan Chipangama of Flagstaff, Arizona, won the men’s open half-marathon in 1:02:27 and Keflezighi was second overall.

Japan’s Eri Hayakawa won the women’s half marathon in 1:10:50.

Igor Campos, 31, of nearby Chula Vista, won the men’s marathon in 2:37:05. Lenore Moreno of West Covina, California, won the women’s marathon in 2:41:39.

• Kazmirek, Theisen-Eaton win multievents: Decathlete Kai Kazmirek led a German 1-2 finish at the Hypo Meeting in Goetzis, Austria, while Brianne Theisen-Eaton of Canada improved her personal best heptathlon score by 167 points to dominate the women’s competition.

Kazmirek finished with 8,462 points.Olympic and world decathlon champion Ashton Eaton pulled out of the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge, citing lower back problems before the start.

In the women’s heptathlon, Theisen-Eaton gathered 6,808 points. Second-place Carolin Schaefer of Germany had 6,547.

• Portugal wins at U-20 World Cup: Portugal scored twice in the last two minutes on its way to a 3-0 win over Senegal which lifted it atop Group C at the FIFA Under-20 World Cup in New Zealand.

Late goals by Andre Silva and Nuno Santos gave Portugal the group lead on goal difference from Colombia which had earlier beaten Qatar 1-0.

2013 finalists Uruguay beat Serbia 1-0, which left them just behind Mali in Group D. Ten-man Mali beat nine-man Mexico 2-0 in a match which became spiteful in the second half to go atop the group in the first major upset of the tournament.

• Lorenzo wins third straight: Jorge Lorenzo made it three straight wins with a dominant victory at the Italian Moto Grand Prix, slashing Yamaha teammate Valentino Rossi’s lead at the top of the overall standings to six points.