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12:40:55 CEST

Vini Fantini's efforts paid off and Cunego took the points at the top of the climb. With none of his rivals scoring any he now has a 7-point lead in the classification.

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12:42:55 CEST

With the climb over, the attacks have begun. Four riders have now jumped off the front of the group.

 

12:45:18 CEST

189km remaining from 233km

The riders with a small gap on the peloton are: Daniel Oss (BMC), Alexander Foliforov (Gazprom), Amets Txurukka (Orica-GreenEdge), Pavel Brutt (Tinkoff).

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And so the GC mind games begin:

 

Giuseppe Martinelli (DS of Astana) said,“It wasn’t premeditated, but we saw in that moment that Landa wasn’t in the front group anymore so we accelerated a bit. But really it was a question of staying in front and stretching out the group, we weren’t really trying anything,”

 

“I only realised when the Astana riders told me he was missing, but you can’t really tell too much from a steep slope like that, especially when it’s only a kilometre and a half long,” Valverde said.

 

to which Landa responded, “The teams with fast riders but no sprinters tried to blow out the sprinters by going all out on the last climbs, and it was extremely fast on that final [unclassified] ascent, particularly the last part,” and then added “I didn’t have my best day today, but I was up there with the best.” and closed off his response with “I’ve got through this day and I’m ready for another.”

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Serial breakaway rider Amets Txurruka is the best placed in the GC of today's escapees. He's 5:25 down on the pink jersey but he won't mind too much about that with his team leader Esteban Chaves is currently sitting in 10th at 37 seconds down.

 

Despite his time spent in breakaways Txurruka is yet to win a Grand Tour stage. The only Grand Tour stage winner in this breakaway group is Pavel Brutt. The Russian rode to victory on stage 5 of the 2008 Giro d'Italia, taking it by four seconds over Johannes Frohlinger in a breakaway ride.

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13:49:30 CEST

 

94km remaining from 233km

 

With less than 100km to go, the gap is now at 6:12 for the four escapees.

 

Sorry seems this was retracted as it was a mistake and i missed it,

 

14:20:00 CEST

 

118km remaining from 233km

 

The leaders are on a small ascent as the riders approach the second intermediate sprint of the day.

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