Giro d'Italia stage 16: Pinzolo > Aprica, 175kms
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A gruppetto of Cannondale-Garmin riders are warming up behind the team bus - there's a massive uphill start to the stage..!
Simon Geschke leads the first escape with Domont and a Vini Fantini rider...
Ryder Hesjedal arrives with about ten others to begin a more serious escape...
About 25 riders are getting away, but the peloton is just seconds behind...
A smaller version of the same escape has got away and climbs the Passo Tonale with Felline and Hesjedal leading...
Chris Juul-Jensen leads the Tinkoff train in pursuit, although the gap is less than two minutes...
Karusha, with Yuri Trofimov in there, has attacked on the long descent to Tirano and is now chasing Hesjedal...
Astana has also attacked on the descent, with Dario Cataldo bringing Aru up to the Katusha-led group - but where's Contador..?!
Lagutin and Katusha have swallowed Hesjedal up, and now tow Trofimov and Aru to the foot of the Mortirolo...
An embarassed Contador is being towed by a lone Tinkoff, Roman Kreuziger, almost one-minute back...
Tiralongo and Landa carry Aru on to the Mortirolo...
Contador starts the Mortirolo 50-seconds later - and immediately leaves everyone else behind..!
Contador is flying up the Mortirolo, but at a pace he chooses...
Kruijswijk has anticipated this and taken off alone, thinking they might let him go...
Aru has been left alone to fight the Mortirolo and his losses today...
Kruijswijk paces Contador and Landa towards the summit - will they gift the Dutchman a stage-win..?
Kruijswijk, Contador and Aru are almost at the summit and safe from any chasers on the descent...
Damiano Caruso is one of the first chasers to head down the Mortirolo....but he'll lose 3' 16" by the finish
Contador has put the Maglia Rosa at the head of the race in the last six-kilometres...
Contador lets Kruijswijk take second-place on the stage...
