Giro d'Italia stage 4: Chiavari > La Spezia, 150kms

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 4

Michael Matthews and Brett Lancaster can still manage to laugh as they warm up for a very tough day in the Giro..!

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 4

The peloton is already in pieces on the first climb of the day..!

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Giovanni Visconti and Simon Clarke are pursuing a developing escape on the sheer descent...

Giro d'Italia - Stage 4

Tom Danielson leads a 17-man escape towards the next climb, he has teamate Davide Formolo with him...

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Salvatore Puccio is chasing at one-minute with six others...

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Peter Weening and Esteban Chaves are further back with Kochetkov, Monfort, Kreuziger and Siutsou...

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 4

Kreuziger is the one doing the longest pulls - a 30-man group will eventually emerge ahead...

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 4

Trek have missed the move completely - and Alafaci has fallen at the back, to be helped by Watson...

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 4

Ryder Hesjedal can afford to relax with the escape nine-minutes in front - he has Haussler and Watson to listen to his jokes...

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 4

The escape descends towards Levanto on the Cinque Terre coastline...

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Andrey Amador is trying to pull away from the escape on the Passo del Termine...

Formolo is quick to join this move...

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Kreuziger and Cataldo are struggling to keep in the escape on this steep hill...

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 4

The peloton passes a mountain village, except that Astana has destroyed the peloton...

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 4

The Astana riders look back to see the damage they've created behind...

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 4

With Simon Clarke in front and virtual race-leader, Michael Matthews can afford to smile on these nasty climbs..!

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 4

Astana is doing a Tinkoff on Tinkoff - and there's only Contador and Rogers left to challenge them..!

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 4

The Cinque Terre region has swallowed the Giro whole - the peloton is out there somewhere..!

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 4

Formolo has attacked from the fragmented escape at the foot of the last ascent..

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 4

Visconti and Moinard are Formolo's only challengers, but they won't catch him...

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 4

Paolo Tiralongo leads Aru who leads Contador and Porte on the last climb - they're less than one minute down on Formolo..!

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 4

Formolo is on his way to a great stage-win in La Spezia...

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 4

Contador climbs behind Aru and ahead of Porte, but he's not hurting the way they'd want..!

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 4

Rigoberto Uran is the big loser of the day - the Etixx 'star will lose a lot of time before the finish...

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Davide Formolo celebrates his brilliant stage-win..!

Giro d'Italia - Stage 4

Simon Clarke celebrates his race-leadership - it's another day in Pink for Orica-Green Edge..!

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