Non so perché non ci sono le bici





Quintana leads the race and probably will do so after today, is Movistar already contend with stages and allow a breakaway to win the stage today. Which teams will guess on this and try to put their strong riders in the breakaway.



Again we have a quickly established breakaway, Martínez (EUS), Pauriol (SOJ), Rutkiewicz (CCC), Huzarski (TNE), García (CJR), Tankink (VCD), Jungels (GIA) and Pires (COL). Martínez is best placed in the GC at 38th place at 10’49�. This gap might be enough for Movistar to convince them letting them ride for the stage win. They quickly gain 9 minutes but 9 and a half minutes seems to be the max they get.



Neri missed the breakaway again and Failli again attacks to join up with them just before the intermediate sprint. The gap to the breakaway is down to 4 minutes. Pardilla (MTN) soon follows his example



Before the duo is caught the peloton again Reichenbach (IAM) and Sella (COF)



We aren’t even at the end climb and the favorites attack already, starting with Spilak (KAT) and Acevedo (CSS) and followed by Caruso (CAN), Quintana (MOV), Pellizotti (COF) and Owniak (BMC).


De las Campos (EUS), La Bestia (IAM) also join in the big chasers group. Scarponi, Hesjedal and Kim have a bit more trouble joining up

Pauriol has won both KOM sprints meaning that he will wear the KOM jersey tomorrow. He beats Jungels and Martínez are the only ones able to follow him. Pires and Huzarski follow at 16 seconds. Garcia and Tankink at 35 seconds. The Quintana group with de las Campos, Spilak, Pellizotti and Rutkiewicz are at 1’11�. Group Owniak with Acevedo, La Bestia, Reichenbach, Caruso and Sella follow at 1’28�. Kim is solo at 1’54� while Scarponi and Hesjedal are at 2’03�.



The downhill shock things up. Kim abysmal downhill skills showed their worth and soon he found himself last of the favorites. We soon found two groups, a merger between the breakaway and the Quintana group and a merger between the Owniak group and everybody uptill Scarponi and Hesjedal excluding Kim.

With 1 km to go we see 5 riders at the front with De las Campos leading the charge. Pellizotti has trouble to stay on his wheel while Quintana apperantly doesn’t bother with the stage win today. Spilak, Jungels and a struggeling Huzarski are also in the first group.



Quintana has made his finally acceleration but De las Campos and Pellizotti might have too much of a lead to be overtaken.



Quintana looks to be blocked by De las Campos in the sprint while he easily closed the gap towards him and Pellizotti.



De las Campos start cheering while Quintana can’t pass him and Cristiano De las Campos wins the stage. Pellizotti gets 3rd place.



Spilak and Jungels take 4th and 5th. Huzardski finishes 6th. Pauriol and Pires hold off the second group of favorites for 7th and 8th. Acevedo and Scarponi close out the rest of the top 10. Quintana still has the lead and Kim drops to 10th place thanks to his 20th place today partly thanks to bad downhill

Rank		Name	Team	Time
1		Cristiano De las Campos	Euskaltel - Euskadi	4h30'26
2		Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	s.t.
3		Franco Pellizotti	Cofidis, Solutions Crédits	s.t.
4		Simon Spilak	Team Katusha	+ 48
5		Bob Jungels	Team Giant - Shimano	s.t.
6		Bartosz Huzarski	Team NetApp - Endura	+ 59
7		Rémi Pauriol	Sojasun	+ 1'08
8		Bruno Pires	Colombia	+ 1'36
9		Janier Acevedo	Team Champion System	+ 2'09
10		Michele Scarponi	Lampre - Merida	+ 2'22

Rank		Name	Team	Time
1		Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	8h53'08
2		Cristiano De las Campos	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 3'41
3		Franco Pellizotti	Cofidis, Solutions Crédits	+ 3'50
4		Simon Spilak	Team Katusha	+ 3'57
5		Michele Scarponi	Lampre - Merida	+ 5'14
6		Damian Owniak	BMC Racing Team	+ 5'20
7		Janier Acevedo	Team Champion System	+ 5'39
8		Damiano Caruso	Cannondale	+ 6'02
9		Ryder Hesjedal	Team Giant - Shimano	+ 6'17
10		Po-ding Kim	Team Champion System	+ 6'46

Rank	Name	Team	General
1	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	45
2	Cristiano De las Campos	Euskaltel - Euskadi	31
3	Simon Spilak	Team Katusha	26

Rank	Name	Team	General
1	Rémi Pauriol	Sojasun	26
2	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	24
3	Juan Pablo Asquez	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	20

2	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	8h53'08 (1)
1	Cristiano De las Campos	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 3'41 (2)
4	Damian Owniak	BMC Racing Team	+ 5'20 (3)

6	Team Champion System	+ 4'45	26h30'23 (1)
2	Team Giant - Shimano	+ 1'22	+ 3'08 (2)
4	Movistar Team	+ 3'22	+ 3'42 (3)

Non so perché non ci sono le bici





Welcome to the final stage of the 2014 Giro del Trentino where Quintana still leads the overall classification. However the real fight should be for the other podium spots where many riders are still in contention. Despite the minutes gap between 2nd and 11th place, the end climb is long and hard enough to give to those minutes. De las Campos, Pellizotti and Spilak have the best paper though as there are only separated by 16 seconds.



And immediately from the word go we have an attacker, Marcos García from Caja Rural opens up the race.



He is soon followed by Berhane (MTN), Damuseau (CCC), Tvetcov (KAT), Hoogerland (VCD), Rujano (CSS) and Huzarski (TNE) these riders make up today’s breakaway.



Berhane, García and Hoogerland have serious intentions for the KOM jersey but it’s Berhane that takes the 16 points at the top. He ties in total points with Hoogerland and Pauriol. The gap to the peloton is 9 minutes.



Like every stage this year, we see Failli from Neri Sottoli attacking just before the race gets started for real. This time however he’s not alone as Reichenbach (IAM) joins him with 38.6 km to go. Do the favorites wait until the final climb today or do they follow suit?



The answer is no. it’s Ryder Hesjedal who attacks just when his teammate Poels has a puncture. Quintana follows his “wheel� and strangely it isn’t Owniak from BMC that counter attacks but Cataldo.



Quintana and Hesjedal have no trouble picking up Failli and Reichenbach. De las Campos is the first chasers with his teammate Gorka Izaggire leading him towards the group. Pellizotti, Spilak are also in this group. The peloton lead by Scarponi is 1 minute behind the De las Campos group.


if only bikes were shown, this shot would have been amazing

At the foot of the climb the peloton is still chasing the Quintana/De las Campos group although the gap is only 29 seconds. Hoogerland and Huzarki have been dropped from the breakaway and are just 21 seconds away from the Quintana/De las Campos group.


everything is back together, Owniak and Scarponi are badly position though

Rujano makes the first shot in the breakaway, trying for victory.



Hesjedal, Quintana and De las Campos have attacked and are clear from the rest. La Bestia, Pellizotti, Cataldo, Spilak and Visconti make up the chasers while Acevedo, Nokkvason, Martinez, Nerz and Ulissi make up the second chasing group.



Owniak and Scarponi finally realize that their GC is in danger and have also attacked from the peloton. Their bad position might have costed them dearly. Not something one would see from someone as experience as Scarponi.



Hesjedal tries to drop his companions and is able to get a small gap as he catches some riders from the breakaway.



De las Campos cracks!



Damuseau tries a desperate attack to get clear from his breakaway companions when Quintana and Hesjedal join up with them. De las Campos still is struggling.



Quintana and Hesjedal are having none of it though and soon as he’s caught by them he drops later. Only Tvetcov is able to hang on going into the final kilometer. Some performance from him.



While Quintana makes the first acceleration, he gives the stage win to Ryder Hesjedal. Tvetcov takes 3rd place on the stage.



Pellizotti beats Damueseau for 4th place while Spilak and De las Campos take 6th and 7th place. De las Campos looks contend with securing 2nd place overall.



Rujano, La Bestia and Owniak round up the top 10.



Quintana shows total domination of the race by winning all the classifications in the race while Team Champion System has to settle with the team classification and 10th, 11th and 12th place in the overall classification.

Rank		Name	Team	Time
1		Ryder Hesjedal	Team Giant - Shimano	5h05'04
2		Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	s.t.
3		Serghei Tvetcov	Team Katusha	+ 21
4		Franco Pellizotti	Cofidis, Solutions Crédits	+ 54
5		Thomas Damuseau	CCC Polsat Polkowice	s.t.
6		Simon Spilak	Team Katusha	s.t.
7		Cristiano De las Campos	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
8		José Rujano	Team Champion System	+ 1'28
9		Matteo La Bestia	IAM Cycling	s.t.
10		Damian Owniak	BMC Racing Team	+ 1'41

Rank		Name	Team	Time
1		Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	13h58'00
2		Cristiano De las Campos	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 4'47
3		Franco Pellizotti	Cofidis, Solutions Crédits	+ 4'56
4		Simon Spilak	Team Katusha	+ 5'03
5		Ryder Hesjedal	Team Giant - Shimano	+ 6'09
6		Damian Owniak	BMC Racing Team	+ 7'13
7		Matteo La Bestia	IAM Cycling	+ 9'01
8		Michele Scarponi	Lampre - Merida	+ 9'31
9		Damiano Caruso	Cannondale	+ 11'45
10		Janier Acevedo	Team Champion System	+ 13'19

Rank		Name	Team	General
1		Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	65
2		Cristiano De las Campos	Euskaltel - Euskadi	40
3		Franco Pellizotti	Cofidis, Solutions Crédits	38

Rank		Name	Team	General
1		Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	38
2		Serghei Tvetcov	Team Katusha	30
3		Natnael Berhane	MTN - Qhubeka	28

Rank		Name	Team	General Time
1		Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	13h58'00 (1)
3		Cristiano De las Campos	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 4'47 (2)
5		Damian Owniak	BMC Racing Team	+ 7'13 (3)

Rank		Team	Time	General Time
4		Team Champion System	+ 4'42	42h00'59 (1)
1		Euskaltel - Euskadi	15h25'54	+ 3'39 (2)
6		Movistar Team	+ 8'20	+ 7'20 (3)