The last stage is also the queen one as it finishes with a quite hard climb. As yesterday, Pedraza, Carrara and Taaramae as rated as the big favorites but all of them are out of the GC fight at the moment. It's going to be a really interstentig stage with Nocentini, 2nd in the GC at the moment, registered with the same time as the leader Lloret. Nicacio is also quite close so we should see an opened battle for the final win in Giro del Trentino 2010.
There are 11 riders in today's breakaway, which was made after the long opening downhill:Rooijakkers, Blaudzun, Leukemans, Hicks, Gallego Martin, Devenyns, Perez Arrieta, Lungberg, Oste - Macdonald, Stoltz and Remme
Since Lloret is the new leader of the race after yesterda's stage AirAsia are the most interested team to bring the escapes back and they were helped in the first half of the race by Vespa and M&M
None of the escapes was interested in the intermediate sprint, which was one by Blaudzun in front of the 2 Santander riders
The escapes started the first categorized climb of the day with an advantage of 7 minutes over the pack. But this climb looks to be even harder than the finishing one so it's a long way to the top of it
AirAsia are still somewhere at the front of the pack, but with Wiggle and Energie Diesel more interested now in bringing the escapes back
Blaudzun was clearly the weakest climber in the breakaway and halfway to the top he lost the contact with his breakaway mates
4 km before the top of the climb another escapes cracked. It was Stoltz
Rooijakkers was the only one interested in the KoM points and with the points won here he will have no problems defending his jersey on the last climb
Stoltz already lost one minute and a half to the leading group so he has no chance to get back in it
2 minutes after him Blaudzun arrives
1 minute behind the Dane champion the pack comes. Pretty nice job by the teams that are leading it as they won somewhere around 2 minutes on this climb over the escapes
On the donwhill that followed the pack caught their first escape, a dead Blaudzun
50 kilometers before the finish the escapes still have an advantage of 4 minutes so with a bit of luck one of them might get away on the last climb
Meanwhile Stoltz was also brought back in the pack
The escapes reach the first slopes of the final climb with 35 km before the end of it. They lost in the last 15 km almost one minute to the pack
Wiggle, Energie Diesel and Air Asia are doing a great job at the front of the pack to bring the gap between them and the escape to only 2 minutes before the final 20 kilometers
One of the important names, Justo Tenorio, has a puncture and no one from his team - mates waits for him. It's going to be quite hard to get back in the pack
Oste - Macdonald is leading the breakaway group as the real climb starts with 16 km before the finish. They have only one minute and a half left from their advantage so they have basicaly no chance to survive
Behind them Kiserlovski makes the first big attack of the day
He was followed by Astarloza, Gustov and Larsson
They soon joined the breakaway group but that just made the escapes start their own attacks
Oste - Macdonald was clearly the strongest climber in the leading group and he got away from the others
He is the first ride to reach the final 10 kilometers of the race
He is followed by a group with Larsson, Roojakkers, Hicks and Lundberg
Astarloza, Gustov and Kiserlovski are leading the third group but the pack isn't far behind them
They managed to catch the second group but they were imediately caught by the pack. Gustov, Kiserlovski, Astarloza and Larsson attacked again in that moment
This time they were followed by more riders. The first ones were Lloret and Nicacio
Oste - Macdonald seems to be getting tired and he is caught
Nocentini is also coming with Ghisalberti behind them and they are very close to join the leading group as well as Nicacio and Lloret, which in fact happened only a few moments later
Even though they were the lasts came in the group, Nocentini and Ghisalberti, prove to be way stronger that the others and they get away
Larsson is leading the chase but many of the other riders were brought back in the pack
Nocenti is leading in the last kilometer with Ghisalberti right in his wheel
They are followed by 7 men group with Nicacio, Mercado, Lloret, Kiserlovksi, Noval, Gustov and Larsson. Lloret is in real trouble to lost the overall victory to Nocentini as at the start of the day they were separated by less than one second
Nocentini won a sprint yesterday but it looks like he will lose the win today to Ghisalberti. Still with the 2nd place bonifications he will be sure that he's the overall winner
Ghisalberti gets away from Nocentini and nothing can stop him now
And it's a win for the Sony Ericsson rider! Which means that they got 2 stage wins here, same as Wiggle. No other team got a stage win here
Nocentini is second but as Lloret is not even close to him, he is the new winner of Giro del Trentino!
Lloret finished 39 seconds behind him and Ghisalberti in the chasing group lead by Mercado and Nicacio
Noval and Gustov lost the contact with the chasing group in the final kilometer but they managed to finsih a few seconds before the pack did
