too bad you lost the pink jersey

still a great giro until now

Yeah unlucky. Great reporting and great pictures.

Thanks both, a lot of updates today

Very unlucky, alex. Looks like they were too tired, but strange after only 5 stages ?
And well done for stage 4, winning 3' on cunego and Pellizotti

I meant tired after does hills, Siutsou isn't really a puncheur

OK But what is really Siutsiu : only a teammate, a climber, ... ? ( I mean in the reality, not for the Giro)

Mountain helper

OK Didn't know that

SIUTSOU!


CAVENDISH!

Sweet!b)

Giro d'Italia Stage 7


Names like Kroon, Vansummeren, Moletta and Froome are in the breakaway


Ricco attacks, Valverde and Cunego are after him


The best young of the tour so far, Siutsou, goes there too


But soon Ricco and Siutsou are caught


While Efimkin, Cunego and Valverde are in front


A lot of riders caught are now in the first group. Except of the previous 3, some of them are Ninali, Casar, Garate, Van Den Broeck


Valverde leads, but Cunego isn't too far


Valverde consolidates his lead with an solo victory


Good job by Siutsou having the same time with Ricco or Casar today



Stage
1. Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 4h38'47
2. Damiano Cunego Lampre + 21
3. Vincenzo Nibali Liquigas s.t.
4. Haimar Zubeldia Euskaltel - Euskadi s.t.
5. Jurgen Van den Broeck Silence - Lotto + 48
6. Maxim Iglinskiy Astana Cycling Team s.t.
7. Juanma Gárate Quick·Step s.t.
8. Vladimir Efimkin AG2R La Mondiale + 1'09
9. Tadej Valjavec AG2R La Mondiale s.t.
10. Sandy Casar Française des Jeux s.t.

Overall
1. Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 30h00'36
2. Kanstantsin Siutsou Team Columbia + 1'59
3. Maxim Iglinskiy Astana Cycling Team + 3'03
4. Vincenzo Nibali Liquigas + 3'11
5. José Iván Gutiérrez Caisse d'Epargne + 3'27
6. David López Caisse d'Epargne + 3'43
7. Pierrick Fédrigo Bouygues Télécom + 3'47
8. Stefan Schumacher Gerolsteiner + 3'49
9. Marco Pinotti Team Columbia + 3'51
10. Joaquím Rodríguez Caisse d'Epargne + 3'59

Points
1. Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 73
2. Lars Boom Team Columbia 55
3. Davide Rebellin Gerolsteiner 47

Mountain
1. Alejandro Valverde Caisse d'Epargne 16
2. Marcus Ljungqvist Team CSC - Saxo Bank 10
3. Damiano Cunego Lampre 10

Young: Kanstantsin Siutsou Team Columbia
Teams: Caisse d'Epargne

Wow, Valverde has already 2' on Siutsiou!! very tough

I still thinking what the hell made him to participate in Giro

Sure!! Alejandro, would be better if you were only concentrating on the Tour (as each year he does, and each year he's 10th )

2nd place is still good. You'll maintain top 10!

Hi, first time i looked at this story and its good. I was milram on one of my careers and thought i could get a top 20 in the giro with knees or grivko but evans valverde menchov contador leviphiemer kloden sastre and samual sanchez where all in it for me reason so finished 24th i think i was not happy. Story is looking good so far, i dont mean to be annoying but you are either awesome at the game or it is not hard level. Also can you please stop attacking on downhills as t is not realistic i could understand if you are savo or sam san g and especially when you already have the jersey. Keep up the good story though.

I attacked on the downhill because that way all lose lower energy. And yes is true that I already had the jersey but youn never know what will happen in the next stage

And Siutsou is way better than Grivko or Knees

exactly so i think top 10 considering the field of riders against you and i played on hard to so i think top 10 for you good luck. Also i know you lose less energy on the downhill but to me its cheating!!! And really frustrates me when people do it

I play on hard too, but sometimes just I have luck, sometimes not I could't win anything with Kirchen in Ardennes
And I like winning on downhills, but I am really fourious when my rider is something like 50 on downhill and I loos time