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Boem looks to be in trouble with cramps as he tries to hold the wheels in the break. He's in trouble though because they won't wait for him.

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The record time for the Poggio (3.7km at 3.7%) remains the 5:46 clocked by Giorgio Furlan en route to victory in 1994. Furlan’s win twenty years ago was part of a never-before-nor-since purple patch that also included overall victory at Tirreno-Adriatico and Critérium International, and kick-started a startling run of results from his Gewiss team.

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Btw

Rob Hunter is DS to the Garmin-Sharp team today

Last year, he was out there freezing in the snow

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84km to go and the gap to the leaders is at 6;40. The weather is getting worse though, with reports of snow now at the finish. Ciolek again?

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Boem is off the back of the lead group, so we're down to six leaders as the break push on.

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Team Sky have posted a couple of riders near the front of the field - leadership falls on the shoulders of Edvald Boason Hagen.

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And this race could split up before the final two climbs. The conditions are getting worse, the rain continues to fall and every time the camera pan back all you can see are suffering faces.

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The rain continues to pour down and every rider has a cape on now. The bunch is strung out as they head through a roundabout but at this stage the sprinters will be hanging on for dear life because this race could become very, very selective.

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The record for the Cipressa (5.6km at 4.1%), meanwhile, is held by Francesco Casagrande, who went up in 9:36 in 2001, when Erik Zabel beat Mario Cipollini in the bunch sprint for the win. Casagrande’s time was one second quicker than Marco Pantani’s on the Cipressa two years earlier.

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Barta takes on some food from the team car and then gives his DS a thumbs up, rather more in hope than confidence.

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Wegelius:

Nathan has been caught by the bunch but this doesn’t really change much. Nathan did a good job but from now on the Cipressa is key.

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