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86th Giro d'Italia - Grand TourItaly, May 10-June 1, 2003Main Page Stage Profile Start List Latest Live Report Stage 8 - May 18: Rieti-Arezzo, 214 kmComplete Live ReportStart time: 11:30 CEST Welcome to Cyclingnews' live coverage of the 8th stage of the Giro d'Italia, 214 kilometres between Rieti and Arezzo in central Italy. After yesterday's pummeling at the hands of Stefano Garzelli and Gilberto Simoni on the Terminillo climb, today's stage is a much easier affair, containing just one Cat. 3 GPM after 22.5 km (Forca dell'Arrone). The Intergiro is located at Città di Castello (km. 167), and it's followed by a gradual climb to Bivio Foce Scopetone (km 201), after which there are 13 km to go to the finish. With Stefano Garzelli in pink, his Vini Caldirola SO.DI team will be doing some of the tempo work today, until the latter half of the stage when the sprinters teams can take over. That is, unless a breakaway goes. The question that is always being asked is: when is Cipollini going to win a stage? So far he has twice finished second but definitely doesn't look like the Cipo of old. "Yesterday was my rest day," said Cipo of his ride up the Terminillo climb in the 'autobus', which finished nearly 20 minutes down on the winner. 14:40 CEST - 100 km/114 km to go A few km later, there was a counter attack by Baldato (Alessio), Giordani (De Nardi), Riebenbauer (fakta-Pata Chips), Barbero (Lampre), Casar (FDJ), Marichal (Lotto-Domo), and Zanetti (Tenax). The two groups joined and there are now 13 riders leading the peloton by some 10". Earlier in the day, the Cat. 3 climb at Forca dell'Arrone was won by Constantino Zaballa (Kelme), who is now very close to leading the mountains competition. Fredy Gonzalez (Selle Italia) is the current leader. In the Giro, the mountains jersey is green, unlike the Tour, where the points jersey is green. 14:49 CEST - 105 km/109 km to go 15:09 CEST - 120 km/94 km to go 15:20 CEST - 127 km/87 km to go 15:35 CEST - 140 km/74 km to go 15:49 CEST - 149 km/65 km to go The Intergiro sprint is approaching soon (167 km) however, so we should see a little more action. 16:06 CEST - 160 km/54 km to go The Intergiro is the Giro's intermediate sprints competition. There is only one sprint per day, and the first rider across gets time bonuses. The scoring is different from most intermediate sprints competitions, which award points for the first three across the line e.g. 3, 2, 1 points. The Intergiro awards time bonuses, and the classification is worked out by these. Even if three riders cross the line several minutes apart, they will all be given the same base time, with the bonuses separating who was first, second, third and so on. There are also small time bonuses that count towards the actual general classification, so sprinters in the early stages of the Giro are often seen going for the Intergiro sprints. Most people find this one of the most confusing competitions in the Giro. 16:22 CEST - 170 km/44 km to go Di Biase will keep his lead in the competition, probably followed by Andris Nauduzs and Backstedt, who is now 18 bonus seconds off the lead of Di Biase. 16:30 CEST - 184 km/30 km to go The road is gradually uphill now until 13 km to go. 16:38 CEST - 190 km/24 km to go 16:45 CEST - 195 km/19 km to go Domina Vacanze and Fassa Bortolo have their men on the front, trying to close the 17" gap to Adyeyev. Lotto-Domo have also put men up there. 16:48 CEST - 197 km/17 km to go 16:51 CEST - 200 km/14 km to go Adyeyev was away for a total of 32 km, attacking after the Intergiro with five others. 16:52 CEST 16:56 CEST - 204 km/10 km to go 16:58 CEST - 206 km/8 km to go 16:59 CEST - 207 km/7 km to go Now Domina Vacanze has increased the speed, and it's very fast. Kurt Arvesen and Frank Hoj are also up there, trying to lead out Backstedt. 17 :02 CEST - 209 km/5 km to go 17 :03 CEST - 210 km/4 km to go 17 :04 CEST - 211 km/3 km to go 17 :05 CEST - 212 km/2 km to go 17 :06 CEST - 213 km/1 km to go 17 :07 CEST - 214 km/0 km to go ResultsUnofficial 1 Mario Cipollini (Ita) Domina Vacanze-Elitron 5.29.46 2 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Lotto-Domo 3 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Team fakta-Pata Chips 4 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Fassa Bortolo General classification after stage 8 1 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-SO.DI 2 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Team Saeco 0.31 3 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Alessio 0.44 4 Marius Sabaliauskas (Ltu) Team Saeco 1.28 5 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Alessio 1.36 |
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