In a day that seemed to be plagued with crashes, Daniele Bennati of Liquigas managed to stay out of trouble and come out on top in the mass sprint of today’s 221 km stage from Catania to Milazzo.
There was a huge crash with about 70 kilometers to go, and another at 20 kilometers that knocked out [...]

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The Americans had their moment in the sun yesterday, but the Italians are back in control at the Giro.
The day started with the news that Igor Astarloa (Milram) dropped out of the race with intestinal issues.
The first escape of the stage race went to Dioniso Galparoso (Euskatel-Euskadi). He built up a lead of 1 minute [...]

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The Slipstream-Chipotle team vaulted onto the world stage today by winning the first stage of their first ever Grand Tour event.
Christian Vandevelde and four of his teammates completed the 23.6 km time trial course in the shortest time to put Vandevelde in the pink leader’s jersey. Team CSC took second at 6 seconds behind while [...]

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Levi Leipheimer (Astana) put in a commanding performance in today’s time trial, besting his nearest rival by nearly half a minute and pulling to an overall 49 second lead to stay in the leader’s jersey.
David Millar and Christian Vandevelde of the Slipstream-Chipotle team took 2nd and 3rd place respectively. Former race leader and World Time [...]

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Oscar Friere takes his second stage of the Vuelta by outsprinting Daniele Bennati and Paolo Bettini out of the final corner at today’s stage.  Despite his efforts Vladimir Efimkin hangs on to the golden jersey with Denis Menchov a little over a minute behind and Carlos Sastre in 3rd.Â

Looking through the rankings, there are only [...]

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