The Green Edge team are creating a stir at the start by warming up on turbo machines before the short stage...
Francisco Failli and Martijn Keiser have escape right away - not that they've a chance of winning today...
Angelo Pagani wants his picture taken with Mark Cavendish - happy to oblige, mate...
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Joachim Rodriguez seems happy today - he's joking with Sergio Henao at the back of the peloton...
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Jussi Veikkanen is chasing for FDJ - there's a four minute gap to close down...
Fumiyuki Beppu makes a quick wheel change...
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Christian Vande Velde is trying hard to make a younger American, Taylor Phinney, laugh after a few hard days in the saddle...
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As per the plan, Cavendish switches to his preferred sprinting bike at the top of the main climb...
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Veikkanen is still hard at work for FDJ with 50-kilometres left - the break has almost been caught...
Christian Meier is doing his bit for Green Edge - and the escape is now being caught because of this...
Thomas Vaitkus now pilots the Green Edge team to the front, parallel to Rabobank, Sky, and FDJ...
Green Edge leads the peloton onto a series of small climbs - Sky is no-where to be seen right now...
It's a furious sprint into Cervere - who's leading then..?!
Mark Cavendish wins stage thirteen ahead of Kristoff and Renshaw
Heaven is... Cavendish enjoys the kisses on the even of the Giro's entry into the mountains...
Joachim Rodriguez can afford to smile - the mountains are his speciality, and they start tomorrow..!
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