In another mountainous stage, Sella wins for a second day, but Alberto Contador slides into the maglia rosa.
Coverage here, here and here. (Thanks to VeloNews, BBC Sport and Yahoo! Sports)

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Today’s stage was a flat 177km cruise from Modena to Cittadella. The riders enjoyed good weather and a nice tailwind, at least at the start.
Matteo Priamo of CSF Group Navigare dropped out of the race before the start of today’s stage due to injuries sustained in a crash yesterday. Fabio Sabatini (Milram) also retired shortly into the [...]

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Not much to report for the play-by-play today.
176 guys went out and rode hard (though some harder than others). When it was all over, these were the top 10:
1 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre                         56.41 (41.075 km/h)
2 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Astana                  0.08
3 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana                            0.20
4 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Team High Road                     0.36
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Today’s stage from Potenza to Peschici starts and ends with climbing, with a fairly long, flat section in the middle. The race organizers listened to the riders and shortened today’s stage by removing the Circuito del Gargano. This will allow the riders to get back to their hotels earlier for meals and massages. The organizers also moved the start of [...]

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Yesterday, we saw a solo breakaway by Rik Verbrugghe of the Cofidis team, but he was not able to hold on all the way to the end. Today, five riders (Luis Laverde (CSF), Johannes Froehlnger (Gerolsteiner), David Millar (Slipstream Chipotle), Pavel Brutt (Tinkoff) and Francisco Perez Sanchez (Caisse d’Epargne)) were able to get away and stay away.
The group of [...]

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