Filippo Pozzato poses with a classic Ferrari (that's actually a 1935 Alfa Romeo) before the start in Modena...
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The stage begins through the ancient courtyard of the police academy in Modena...
Pierpaolo DeNegri is leading the day's escape away - two Lotto riders are in this as well...
On the Giro's first real stage in Italya, there's a traditional cake-stop near Imola...
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Garmin are not letting the escape get too far away today, they want to safeguard the Maglia Rosa...
There's plenty of time to talk while others work - Robert Hunter discusses the sprint with Matthew Goss...
Mark Cavendish is happily talking shop with rival Daniele Bennati...
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Alex Rasmussen and Sebastian Rosseler are the work-horses for Garmin today...
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The pink jersey is near the front as the peloton speeds through Forli, about halfway through the stage...
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Timon Seubert is busy collecting water bottles for his Net App teamates...
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Fumiyuki Beppu wants to collect water-bottles, but his team car is busy with someone else..!
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Let's watch Jeremy Hunt at work today - first, he collects about six bottles...
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Hunt then carries his precious commodity all the way to the front of the peloton...
Mark Cavendish gets the first two bottles - the ones with the coldest water in them..!
While Beppu waits, Goss is talking tactics with Matthew White and respected journalist, Rupert Guinness...
Kaisen and Bulgac are keeping the escape away, but their fate is inevitable...
All of Team Garmin is at the front now, are they working for Navardauskas or Farrar - or both..?
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Alessandro De Marchi has attacked from the escape...
Liquigas show thermselves for the first time, chasing De Marchi down...
Ramunas Navardauskas descends a hill with 25-kilometres to go - he's loooking a bit tired though..!
Mark Cavendish wins into Fano, it is his second stage-win of this Giro..!