Sentence examples for take a first stage from inspiring English sources

Majka, one of the 17 riders to make the initial break, kicked on though and managed to hold off the fast-finishing Nibali to take a first stage win, in a reverse of Friday's result on stage 13.

When Mark Cavendish rides on to the Champs-Elysées today, wearing the green jersey of best sprinter, whatever then happens – and he could well take a fifth stage win – the 26-year-old Manxman will have carved another huge milestone in British cycling.

The Briton sealed both a last-minute triumph in the points classification and took a fifth stage win out of a possible five.

But while Froome would have gladly taken a second stage win of the Tour so far, his primary concern was distancing his general classification rivals, and he did that comfortably despite slowing relative to Martin towards the finish.

Celtic's failure to take a second chance at Champions League group stage qualification earned a satisfied response from Legia Warsaw, who tweeted to celebrate Maribor's 1-0 win at Celtic Park.

The one current catch: the video quality is apparently a bit laggy at the moment — which, presumably, is why Apple didn't take a second to mention this on stage.

A number of crashes occurred starting at the 50 km remaining mark, and a series of attempted breaks meant that the peloton was fragmented, and Alessandro Petacchi took a second successive stage from a depleted group sprint.

Spaniard Dani Navarro took a first Grand Tour stage victory in the Vuelta a Espana as compatriot Alberto Contador retained his overall lead.

This model does not consider damping in a first stage: this effect is introduced in a second stage taking into account the experimental response of the piezoelectric actuator in resonance conditions.

Formal consensus generating methods were then used to prioritise these on the basis of pre-specified criteria, to yield a realistic number of innovations to be taken forward into a third stage, where they would be implemented in a clinical service in order to be evaluated for feasibility and acceptability.

But Armstrong did not sprint at the line, allowing Basso to take his first stage victory.