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Giro d'Italia - Stage 4
Michael Matthews and Brett Lancaster can still manage to laugh as they warm up for a very tough day in the Giro..!
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The peloton is already in pieces on the first climb of the day..!
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Giovanni Visconti and Simon Clarke are pursuing a developing escape on the sheer descent...
Tom Danielson leads a 17-man escape towards the next climb, he has teamate Davide Formolo with him...
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Salvatore Puccio is chasing at one-minute with six others...
Peter Weening and Esteban Chaves are further back with Kochetkov, Monfort, Kreuziger and Siutsou...
Kreuziger is the one doing the longest pulls - a 30-man group will eventually emerge ahead...
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Trek have missed the move completely - and Alafaci has fallen at the back, to be helped by Watson...
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Ryder Hesjedal can afford to relax with the escape nine-minutes in front - he has Haussler and Watson to listen to his jokes...
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The escape descends towards Levanto on the Cinque Terre coastline...
Andrey Amador is trying to pull away from the escape on the Passo del Termine...
Formolo is quick to join this move...
Kreuziger and Cataldo are struggling to keep in the escape on this steep hill...
The peloton passes a mountain village, except that Astana has destroyed the peloton...
The Astana riders look back to see the damage they've created behind...
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With Simon Clarke in front and virtual race-leader, Michael Matthews can afford to smile on these nasty climbs..!
Astana is doing a Tinkoff on Tinkoff - and there's only Contador and Rogers left to challenge them..!
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The Cinque Terre region has swallowed the Giro whole - the peloton is out there somewhere..!
Formolo has attacked from the fragmented escape at the foot of the last ascent..
Visconti and Moinard are Formolo's only challengers, but they won't catch him...
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Paolo Tiralongo leads Aru who leads Contador and Porte on the last climb - they're less than one minute down on Formolo..!
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Formolo is on his way to a great stage-win in La Spezia...
Contador climbs behind Aru and ahead of Porte, but he's not hurting the way they'd want..!
Rigoberto Uran is the big loser of the day - the Etixx 'star will lose a lot of time before the finish...
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Davide Formolo celebrates his brilliant stage-win..!
Simon Clarke celebrates his race-leadership - it's another day in Pink for Orica-Green Edge..!
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