Giro d'Italia Stage 9: Lugo > Sestola, 172kms

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Dave Tanner is trying to get an escape away, but it's proviing to be hard today...

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Julian Arredondo is fishtaling at the back with the race speed up to 60-kilometres-per-hour..!

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CJ Sutton seems to be enjoying the touch-and-go racing..!

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Michael Matthews is showing a bit too much leg after a high-speed fall with many others...

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Ex-leader Matthews is discovering another side of the Giro now - it hurts..!

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Peter Weening leads an escape that got away after the crash - this might be his lucky day..!

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Daniel Oss is chasiing for BMC with the gap about seven minutes...

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Van der Sande, Malacarne and Vorgonov have managed to keep the escape six minutes ahead - one escaper might just win today..!

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Nathan Haas has started an assault by Garmin-Sharp on the seocnd climb from home - they're trying to keep Ryder Hesjedal in the top-ten on G.C...

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Cadel Evans swoops through a bend on the twisty descent...

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Five minutes ahead, Peter Weening has launched a solo effort to win...

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BMC lead about fifty riders, but the chase is not really a chase...

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Malacarne has joined Weening about 15-kilometres from the uphill finish...

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Domenico Pozzovivo has attacked from the Maglia Rosa group with five-kilometres to go...

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Michael Rogers and Nicholas Roche start to chase Pozzovivo for their teamate, Rafal Majka...

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Peter Weening wins stage nine from Malacarne to make it a hat-trick of Green Edge stage-victories..!

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Cadel Evans has completed his first day as race-leader - but two difficut weeks lie ahead...

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