Giro d'Italia Stage 21: Riese Pio X > Brescia, 197kms

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A ceremonial start as Vincenzo Nibali celebrates his virtual Giro win with the Astana team...

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Game on - pastries and salami await the hungry and tired cyclists a few kilometres down the road...

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Nibali has already scoffed a salami or two...

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"Now we're talking" - Pippo Pozzato goes straight for the Prosecco...

Pozzato shows his professional side right after by setting the tempo with Omega and Astana riders - there are flights to be taken today..!

"You're pointing the wrong way, mate..!" An experimental film camera/moto has joined the Giro for a day...

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That's a very heavy camera mounted on a specially adpated motorbike that also has another TV camera bolted to the front...

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Might Roberto Ferrari get his nose (and pony-tail) out in front in today's sprint-finish..?

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Nibali has come back to the team car for a bottle of water..right..?

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Wrong - Nibali has become a gregario (water-boy) on the greatest day in his life..!

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Fabio Aru gets the first bottle from Nibali...

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Nibali is discovering it is not so easy to get the bottles out of his jersey in a hurry...

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Tiralongo gets the last bottle from NIbali's cellar - all debts have now been re-paid...

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Cadel Evans is jealous of the race-leader's new role - he carries a can of Coke, but gives it instead to this photographer..!

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The peloton swoops through the centre of Verona, still mesmerized by the warm and sunny conditions..

All the teams are contributing to the tempo, aimed at a 40-kilometres-per-hour schedule for TV - and a few flights home..!

Astana has the honour of escorting the peloton into Brescia for seven laps of the city...

The Omega team are not letting anything spoil the plans of Cavendish today...

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Nibali is just minutes away from winning the Giro, while Svein Tuft has the task of leading-out his sprinter Brett Lancaster...

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Mark Cavendish wins stage twenty-one and with it the points competition of the Giro d'Italia..!

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What it's all about - Vincenzi Nibali kisses the 2013 winner's trophy...

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