05.10 - Giro d'Italia: Stage 3

"Listen to me boy and you'll learn" - Australia's Cadel Evans chats with youthful compatriot, Richie Porte...

EVANSGIRO

Right race, wrong team - the Panaria-Colnago team is struggling to keep pace already...

Olivier Kaisen leads Jerome Pineau and Tom Stamsnijder in the day's early escape...

KAISENESCAPEGIRO

Dress sense: Evans puts a world champion's body warmer over his Maglia Rosa jersey - it's cold out there today...

EVANSGIRO

Kaisen leads the trio through the Benelux tunnel under Rotterdam - they have an eight-minute lead...

PINEAUESCAPEGIRO

The peloton saunters out of the tunnel as well - it'll be feeding time soon..!

SCENERYGIRO

First crash of the day has caught out Guillaume Blot and Rene Mandri in the feed-zone...

Hands on - Adam Hansen is taking no chances with his dinner today, the race is speeding up...

HANSENEATINGGIRO

The Giro reaches the windswept coastline with 100-kilometres to go, stand by for action..!

ECHELONSWINDGIRO

Not a good time for Jos Van Emden to have a flat tyre - Kruijswijk comes to his rescue...

The Astana team is the chief antagonist at the front of the wind-blown peloton...

VINOKOUROVWINDGIRO

Cadel Evans is right behind Astana, and not taking any chances...

EVANSGIRO

Daniel Lloyd is doing his best to protect Carlos Sastre as the speed goes even higher...

LLOYDSAStreWINDGIRO

The peloton is splitting, under pressure from all the big teams...

ECHELONSWINDGIRO

The chasing group traverses the north sea coast in desperate pursuit...

ECHELONSWINDGIRO

Lampre is doing all the work - Damiano Cunego and Alessandro Petacchi have missed out on the split...

LAMPREWINDGIRO

The peloton is about to regroup as it crosses a Zeeland village...

FANSGIRO

David Millar lends his power to a new front group as the wind blows again...

MILLARECHELONSWINDGIRO

Alexandre Vinokourov looks formidable at the front of this group...

VINOKOUROVwindGIRO

Disaster strikes at the back - Christian Vande Velde has crashed and is out of the race..!

VANDE VELDECRASHGIRO

Life goes on for the others - a leading group is led by HTC-Columbia as the race enters the last 35-kilometres...

COLUMBIAECHELONSWINDGIRO

The leading group crosses the final bridge of the day, but they are about to be caught as the wind changes...

ECHELONSWINDGIRO

Columbia is on the attack as the race hits sidewinds on an exposed coastline...

ECHELONSWINDGIRO

A nice day at the seaside..? Not for this group that has been shelled out by the fast pace...

ECHELONSWINDGIRO

Three distinct groups have now formed with 25-kilometres to go...

Team Sky is powering the front group along, but trouble lies ahead for Bradley Wiggins - he'll crash inside the last 12-kilometres and lose a lot of time...

SKYCIONIECHELONSWINDGIRO

Wouter Weylandt wins stage three from Graeme Brown and Robert Forster

WEYLANDTSGIRO

Cadel Evans sprints for the line over 40-seconds down on the front group - he too was caught up in the crash that felled Wiggins and Team Sky...

Alexandre Vinokourov is the new race-leader - and isn't the Kazakh happy about it..!

VINOKOUROVMAGLIAGIRO