Giro d'Italia - Stage 14
There's a mountainous horizon tempting the Giro today...
Arnaud Demare has been dropped in the first kilometres - he'll abandon soon after...
Giacomo Nizzolo isn't trying to escape today, despite the fact there's a bonus sprint at 85-kilometres...
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Massimiliano Mori leads a 35-rider escape into the Dolomites...
Damiano Cunego is near the front as the huge escape starts the day's first classified ascent...
The peloton starts the Passo Pordoi over four minutes down...
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Rory Sutherland leads the Movstar team in steady pursuit...
Stefan Denifl starts to wind up the pace and battle with Damiano Cunego on the Pordoi Pass...
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Ryder Hesjedal is feeling the pace today - and on the very first high pass...
Hesjedal has an unwanted view of the Dolomites as he's slowly dropped on the Passo Pordoi...
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Movistar leads the peloton up the Passo Sella...
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The peloton now scales the beautiful Passo di Val Gardena...
The peloton pulls away from Val Gardena and heads towards Corvara for the first time...
Zeits and Moser lead a shrinking group of escapers chasing a lone-escaper...
Ruben Plaza has escaped from the escape and leads by two minutes on the valley road to the Giau...
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Kanstantsin Siutsou starts to pull away from the escape on the Giau - only Roche and Atapuma are with him...
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Tanel Kangert leads the Astana team on to the Passo Giau - they've shredded the peloton in the process...
Andrey Amador looks cool enough, for now...
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Bob Jungels is with the favourites group still...
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Alejandro Valverde looks good still but teamate and race-leader Amador is off the back slightly...
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Astana leads the way up the Passo Giau...
Amador has been dropped on the Giau Pass, but he'll get back on on the twisty descent...
Atapuma attacks Siutsou and Preidler at the start of the final climb...
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Vincenzo Nibali has attacked on the descent of the Giau and creates a new favourites' group without Valverde...
Chaves leads the way behind Atapuma, with Nibali and Kruijswijk right there with him...
Steven Kruijswijk now attacks on the final climb, knowing Valverde has gone and that Nibali is weak...
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Kruijswijk pedals away, but Chaves is catching him up..!
Chaves now leads Kruijswijk in an escape that might turn the Giro on its head..!
Nibali is about one-minute behind Chaves and Kruijswijk, but looking stable...
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Atapuma descends the last climb with a one-minute lead over his nearest chasers - but will it be enough..?
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Kruijswijk and Chaves are making up ground on the long descent - they'll close-in and catch Atapuma before the finish..!
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Rigoberto Uran is chasing hard, but he'll lose 2' 50" today...
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Valverde is three minutes down but fighting on...
Amador is way back now, but he'll live to fight another day..!
Esteban Chaves wins stage fourteen from Kruijswijk and Preidler..!
Steven Kruijswijk is the surprise new leader of the Giro d'Italia..!
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