Team Type 1 would like to announce that both Julien El Fares and Alexander Efimkin have signed two year contract extensions

Julien Antomarchi
Alessandro Bazzana
Rubens Bertogliati
Dabiele Callegarin
Daniele Colli
Alexander Efimkin
Filippo Fortin
Jure Kocjan

The first break of the day went away after just three kilometres and is still going strong, the riders in this are Baliani/Team Nippo, Locatelli/Colnago CSF Inox, Borisov/Amore & Vita, Vorobyev/Itera Katusha and Christensen/Team Saxo Bank. The lead is currently 4m 37s

The breakaway is on the second major climb of the day and are still managing to keep the pack at a distance

The lead has dropped below four minutes but they can recharge there batteries in the flat valley roads before they reach the next climb

Bosisio/Utensilnord Named has managed to make it across to the leaders and swell the group to six and give them hope of staying away

Bosisio/Utensilnord Named and Baliani/Team Nippo have managed to create a small gap on the descent of the final climb and with the route being totally flat to the finish they may fancy their chances of staying away

Baliani is now alone as he reaches the coastal town of Arezzo but he only has twenty seconds advantage on the vastly reduced peleton

Betancur/Acqua & Sapone is the latest rider to try his luck but it looks like it will be short lived as the peleton gears itself up for a sprint finish

Elia Favilli of Farnese Vini comes shooting from nowhere as they pass under the red kite

And he is just too fast for everyone else and claims a great win here in his native Italy

And once again i manage to do my favourite trick and fail to take a picture of the win

Laszlo Bodrogi
Remy Cusin
Julien El Fares
Aldo Ino Ilesic
Vegard Stake Laengen
George Preidler
Gary Sutton

House/Rapha Condor-Sharp, Davis/Node4-Giordana, Kuznetsov/Itera Katusha, Tanguy/UK Youth, Watson/Team Jayco, Hawkins/IG Sigma Sport and Holmes/Team Raleigh are the riders that have formed the break of the day and they have got themselves a lead of over four minutes

With the pack not interested at the moment the gap is being kept above the four minute mark

Kristian House is spending a lot of time at the back of the break and conserving a lot of energy, he must have a plan up his sleeve

An Post Sean Kelly are beginning to gather at the front of the peleton as they prepare to start chasing down the riders ahead of them

As the peleton close in at the twenty kilometre to go banner TanguyUK Youth decides he is not about to surrender just yet and so goes away on his own

He was caught within two kilometres as the peleton gobbled up all the riders from the break, but almost immediately Jungels/Leopard Trek Continental leapt out of the pack and decided to have is go

He has thirty five seconds advantage at the moment

The peleton just can't seem to close the gap, can he hang on until the end

And he times it to perfection, what a great piece of riding that was

(SORRY - RESULTS FAILED TO EXPORT)