Giro d'Italia Stage 6: Ubino > Porto Saint' Elpedio, 207kms

It's already an uphill effort from the start in Urbino..!

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It's a fast and furious start, and dangerous too - the first crash of the day...

Tyler Farrar has been ripped to pieces in the fall...

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His badly injured hand has been wrapped in bandages but it does not look good for the American sprinter...

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Farrar rides for a few hundred yards then quits the Giro - he's a very unhappy man..!

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The high speed and hills have spat an injured Taylor Phinney out of the back...

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Phinney is giving 100-percent to get back, which he does...

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Jack Bauer is leading about fifteen men away in an escape - he might even take the Maglia Rosa if he's lucky..!

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The Maglia Rosa, Ramunas Navardauskas, is looking a bit frail in the hills today...

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Cesare Benedetti leads the escape on to the highest climb about 115-kilometres in the stage...

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The peloton is about eight minutes down on the unsurfaced climb...

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Astana and Lampre are controling the chase, which is not really a chase...

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Navardauskas has been dropped on the steepest sections - he'll yo-yo for the next 50-kilometres...

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Mark Cavendish is being paced by Bernhard Eisel, but his deficit will grow towards 30-minutes by the end of the day...

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Liquigas is chasing, that's official - but not too hard..!

Luke Roberts takes the escape on to another nasty hill - we're in Tirreno-Adriatico country still..!

The peloton is climbing the same hill almost four minutes down and not looking likely to get much closer...

Rubiano has dropped his co-escapers on the last and steepest of all the climbs..!

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Dyachenko chases at one minute, with Malori, Benedetti and Golas helping...

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Ivan Basso is at the head of the peloton, but all the favourites are waiting harder stages on Saturday and Sunday...

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Miguel Rubiano wins into Porto Sant' Elpedio..!

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Adriano Malori becomes the new race-leader today - but not by much..!

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