The Giro, my favourite tour of the year is only 2 weeks....

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Scarponi takes it up for Astana, Nibali marked by Valverde as Nieve closes in on a likely victory

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Is Visconti catching up with the Skyborg?

 

What a narrow twisty descent!

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Maglia rosa group almost a minute down. At this rate Jungels will lose the jersey. Nieve now on the flat section heading to the line.

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Amador rejoins the Nibali group, and that will surely put him in pink at the end of the stage, unless Jungels can pull something special out of the bag. 5km to go.

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There's a slowing in pace for the GC riders. That's Jungels chance to claw back time. 4km now for Nieve though.

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Lovely racing

Lovely Giro

 

Jungels needs to find around 30 seconds in order to save his jersey. That's a big ask with 5km to go.

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Up ahead and Nieve has 48 seconds with just under 2km of racing.

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Jungels is pulling back some time, a couple of seconds here and there. He's arched over his bike and in full TT mode.

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The gap is going out again, it's almost a minute as Movistar and Zakarin pull the GC group along.

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Into the final 1,000 meters for Nieve who takes the stage for Team Sky.

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Valverde swings out and leads the GC riders to the line. Nibali takes the sprint and will take the bonus seconds. Now where is Jungels?

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Jungels, brave fight, but he's lost the pink jersey. Amador now leads the 2016 Giro d'Italia.

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Wow

 

#giro

 

The Fight For Pink

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Crucial bonus secs for The Shark of Messina

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General classification after stage 13

1 Andrey Amador (CRc) Movistar Team 54:05:50

2 Bob Jungels (Lux) Etixx - Quick-Step 00:00:26

3 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 00:00:41

4 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 00:00:43

5 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo

6 Rafal Majka (Pol) Tinkoff Team 00:01:37

7 Ilnur Zakarin (Rus) Team Katusha 00:02:01

8 Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica-GreenEdge 00:02:19

9 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Cannondale Pro Cycling 00:02:48

10 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 00:03:15

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Mikel Nieve (Team Sky):

“It was a plan that after Mikel Landa abandoned we had the obligation to win a stage. Today it was possible and we tried full gas since the start.

“We will try again [for a stage win]. We won today, tomorrow is also hard, and we will try during all the mountain stages. Our priority now is to win stages.”