The stage is set
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Marco Pinotti (High Road)
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World Champion Paolo Bettini (Quick Step) shares a word
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Paolo Bettini (Quick Step) and RCS Sport Events Director Angelo Zomegnan
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Diego Caccia (Barloworld)
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Mario Cipollini
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Race favourite Alessandro Ballan (Lampre)
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Alessandro Ballan (Lampre)
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Australian Matthew Goss (Team CSC)
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Yuriy Krivtsov (Ag2r-La Mondiale)
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Gilberto Simoni (Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli)
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Giovanni Visconti (Quick Step) leads
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The famous Piazza del Campo
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Anti-doping measures
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Mikhail Ignatiev (Tinkoff Credit Systems) not too happy
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Ryder Hesjedal (Slipstream Chipotle - H30) shows the efforts
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Steven Cozza (Slipstream Chipotle - H30) will be back
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2002 World Champion Cipollini talks
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Mario Cipollini not racing on Saturday
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Mario Cipollini
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The decisive moment of the race
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Cancellara is using the gravel roads
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Coming down those gravel roads at full speed
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The already reduced peloton
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The green Liquigas machine
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Blue skies
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Giovanni Visconti (Quick Step) concentrates
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The scene at the start
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World Champ Paolo Bettini (Quick Step) making sure
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The peloton is strung out
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The peloton on a little uphill
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The motorbike
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Paolo Bettini (Quick Step)
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Paolo Bettini (Quick Step)
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Paolo Bettini (Quick Step)
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Danilo Hondo (Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli)
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Paolo Longo Borghini (Barloworld)
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Baden Cooke (Barloworld) on the sterrato
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A High Road rider
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Piazza del Campo
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The windy roads
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The peloton started
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The race
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Saunier Duval
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Saunier Duval driving the pace
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Stuart O'Grady (Team CSC) (r)
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Beautiful scenery
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The race falls apart
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A Lampre rider
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Rough roads
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Clouds gather
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A Milram rider
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The race winds
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Manuel Belletti (Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli)
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A Cofidis rider
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Riccardo Chiarini (LPR Brakes)
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The riders on the small roads
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Paolo Bettini (Quick Step)
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Tuscan scenery
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Lampre keeps
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Mikhail Ignatiev (Tinkoff Credit Systems)
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German Danilo Hondo (Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli)
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Ángel Gómez Gómez (Saunier Duval-Scott)
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Mikhail Ignatiev (Tinkoff Credit Systems)
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Christian Murro (Lampre)
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Gilberto Simoni (Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli)
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Steve Zampieri (Cofidis)
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The escape group
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Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas)
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Canadian Ryder Hesjedal (Slipstream Chipotle - H30) on the lam
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The race organiser's car
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Linus Gerdemann (High Road) crosses the line
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Tiziano Dall'Antonia (CSF Group Navigare)
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High Road
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Quick downhills
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Jure Golcer (LPR Brakes)
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Emanuele Sella (CSF Group Navigare)
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Mauro Santambrogio (Lampre)
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Ivan Rovny (Tinkoff Credit Systems)
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Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas)
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Daniele Pietropolli (LPR Brakes)
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Denis Flahaut (Saunier Duval-Scott)
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Andrea Tonti (Quick Step)
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Giovanni Visconti (Quick Step)
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Italian Champion Giovanni Visconti (Quick Step)
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Marco Corti (Barloworld)
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Mauro Da Dalto (Liquigas)
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Giairo Ermeti (LPR Brakes)
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Baden Cooke (Barloworld)
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Paolo Bettini (Quick Step)
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Paolo Bettini (Quick Step)
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Alessandro Ballan (Lampre) marked
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Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) drives
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Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC)
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Alessandro Ballan (Lampre)
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Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) with Alessandro Ballan (Lampre) in tow
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Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) and Alessandro Ballan (Lampre)
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Alessandro Ballan (Lampre) watches
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Alessandro Ballan (Lampre)
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Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) joins
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Attack! Ballan (r) and Cancellara
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Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) confirms
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Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) takes his second season win
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Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) the Monte Paschi Eroica
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Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) tops the podium
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