Giro d' Italia 2014

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BMC are currently on the front. It looks like GreenEdge are content to let them take up that job.

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In the break today is last year's mountains classification winner Stefano Pirazzi. He's on the search for points in that competition again.

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BMC's Danilo Wyss still leads the peloton. He is followed by Movistar's Fran Ventoso, who crashed near the finish yesterday. He's well covered with banadges today.

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Axel Domont of AG2R La Mondiale looks like he's been on the tarmac. He's got a black scuff on his cheek and a hole in his shorts.

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The leaders exit the Umbria region. It's a relatively easy first half of the day for the peloton. The first climb of the day is the Cippo di Carpegna, which comes at 35.6km to go.

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Movistar have now taken to the front, with BMC moving back

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Ivan Basso has had a fairly annonymous Giro d'Italia so far, but he sits in 10th place at the moment.

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Reports coming through that Tinkoff-Saxo rider Christopher Juul-Jensen had a fever of 39 last night. He is riding today, however, but has told Danish TV that he feels like he's had 10 beers.

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The peloton seems happy at this pace. They've been holding the gap at 8:10 for quite some time now.

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100 kms to go

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Reports coming through that Tinkoff-Saxo rider Christopher Juul-Jensen had a fever of 39 last night. He is riding today, however, but has told Danish TV that he feels like he's had 10 beers.

 

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The gap has dropped a little bit to the 10 men out front. It's now 7:07. Omega Pharma-QuickStep and Tinkoff-Saxo lead the chase.

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87km remaining from 179km

 

The gap goes out to 7:30, as the escapees near the feed zone.

 

 

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The escapees have just completed 100 kilometres, there are 26km to the foot of the Cippo di Carpegna where we expect the fireworks to begin today. The gap currently stands at 7:00.

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14:40:08 CEST

 

Iljo Keisse is on the front of the peloton. He would have been part of Mark Cavendish's leadout train if the Manxman hadn't changed his mind and race at the Tour of California. Keisse is best known as a six-day rider, but today he is using his power to drive ont he pace of the peloton.

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The intermediate sprint is coming up in 3 kilometre's time. Edvald Boasson Hagen will be the favourite to take the points, if they chose to contest the sprint.