Giro d'Italia - Stage 4
Joe Rosskopf leads a trio of escapers on the downhill start to the Mediterranean sea...
Matthias Brande knows a good move and is going across the gap...
Brandle is the one applying the power to the escape as it struggles to stay away...
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The whole Nippo-Vini Fantini team is in hard pursuit, although no-one knows why...
Nippo-Vini Fantini will chase for 45-kilometres along the coast, then sit up, letting the escape move away...
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Marinella is decked out in pink and Italian flags for the Giro as it passes through...
Fabian Cancellara smiles as he reaches for his feed-bag, a sure sign the Swiss 'star is over his illness...
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Rosskopf pulls the escape northwards, their lead is about four minutes now...
The compact peloton climbs away from the coast at Bonifati...
A calm Mediterranean sea shows the conditions have changed - this is become a very hot day...
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The peloton climbs the Bonifati hill in the province of Calabria...
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Caleb Ewan looks like he's practising for a sprint, but today's finale doesn't suit the powerhouse Australian...
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Vincenzo Nibali makes a quick wheel change as his team manager Martinelli looks on...
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Marcel Kittel descends as race-leader, but he's about to start losing time...
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Alex Dumont and Guillaume Bonnafond have escaped from the splintered peloton and race along the coast towards Scalea...
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Amets Txurruka leads a counter-attack 20-seconds back...
Alessandro DeMarchi starts a new move with Dumont and Pirazzi with him...
Tim Wellens joins this escape, about thirteen men are in front with 25-kilometres to go...
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Matteo Busato has gone away with DiMarchi, Conti, and McCarthy...
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Valerio Conti has brought Diego Ulissi with him as the race reaches its final climb of the day...
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Ulissi makes his winning attack on the steep hill above Praia di Mare..!
Ulissi is just 15-seconds in front of a chasing group containing the overall favourites...
Jacob Fuglsang is chasing for Astana and Nibali...
Diego Ulissi wins stage four - it won't be his only stage-win of this Giro..!
Tom Dumoulin emerges to take 2nd-place ahead of Steven Kruijswijk...
Tom Dumoulin has taken back the race-lead...
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