Giro d'Italia - Stage 17
The peloton leaves the start alongside the Lago di Molveno...
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Eugert Zhupa leads a trio of escapers right from the start - he has Daniel Oss and Pavel Brutt with him...
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Riccardo Zoidl chases for Trek on a day meant to bring victory to Giacomo Nizzolo...
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Esteban Chaves looks quiet and thoughful after his tactical error yesterday...
Alessandro Bisolti stops to greet friends and family near his home town of Gavardo...
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Laurent Didier is helping Zoidl now, but the gap is staying the same at about four minutes...
Steven Kruijswijk descends the day's only real climb - the race-leader is looking unbeatable in this Giro..!
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Simon Clarke is enjoying the final mouthfuls of what seems to be an ice-cream...
Giacomo Nizzolo has three of his five teamates sheltering him on the way back to the peloton...
Cannondale riders are enjoying less pressure on a day not suited to their climbing 'stars...
Oss is driving the escape along, and their four minute lead has yet to shrink...
Dimension Data is joining the chase, they too have a sprinter by the name of Kristian Sbaragli...
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Carlos Betancur is reduced to bottle carrying for Movistar - the Colmbian has been anonymous so far in the Giro...
Nippo-Fantini are now joing the chase, even though the team does not have a known sprinter...
Lars Bak leads what has become a six-man escape, with his arrival and that of Belkov and Konovalovas - IAM is doing the chasing behind them...
An IAM rider looks back at the damage he's done by attacking in the last 500-metres...
Roger Kluge wins stage seventeen for IAM..!
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Steven Kruijswijk is definitely enjoying his duties as race-leader..!
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