Levi and Popo leading the chase against Basso and Garzelli. Di Luca and Menchov and Cunego are there. Arroyo(not Sastre) between in no man's land; maybe ten seconds behind Basso/Garzelli

Original breakaway group falling apart.

Basso looking good.

armstrong is coming back.

Lance sliding a bit off the back of his group. 2km to the top.

Basso up 19" on chasing group. Picking up stragglers from the early break.

Lance is indeed back with the chasing group/Maglia Rosa group.

Garcia Novarra riding well for Astana in the lead group.

Basso/Garzelli hit the summit 2'19" behind leaders.

Maglia Rosa group crosses at 3' behind. 40" behind Basso.

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Basso and Garzelli pick up a Liquigas rider. He's staying and working with them.

Basso drops Standelj, Garzelli still there.

Novarra sliding off the back of the lead group.

Basso 1.5 min. ahead of Maglia Rosa.

Damn, you're like the knight in the holy grail. You just won't give up. Short term memory loss is not a pretty thing. Reread post #992 and see if it rings a bell. :P

Sastre, Pelizotti, Di Luca, Leipheimer, Menchov together on the climb. 2min. behind Basso.

Basso and Garzelli caught Dinotti, another Aqua Sapone. min. behind leaders.

right over your head. again. :thumb:

Just two riders together in the lead; hitting the steep section.

Lance slid off the back of Maglia Rosa group; Popovych with him.

Basso and Garzelli steaming up the climb; dropped everyone, only the two leaders ahead of them now.

DiLuca looks ghoulish

diluca attacks, menchov counters, sastre follows.

Basso 2'10" behind the two leaders.

Di Luca on the ATTACK!!

Menchov late to jump but he's snagged Di Luca. Cervelo rider with them.

Where's Levi?

Wow, Menchov covered DiLuca's move tres fast.

Like I've been saying, Levi can't handle the big accelerations...it's going...Basso could close it up to Levi's third on this stage.

He's settling in now with "Cheravalo"...:roflmao2:

behind.

Bertagnoli all by himself. Pavels slowing down, maybe waiting on Sastre?

Levi 29" down on Menchov

Looks like Bertagnoli wants company.

This is the first time I've gotten a chance to watch. I've learned that I need a better internet connection. I only have about a 1 Mb connection through my tethered Blackberry. It keeps buffering every 5 seconds or so, kind of annoying. I'm watching it on Universal Sports online.

Is there a setting to lower the quality so it won't skip?

Levi's lucky there wasn't more of the climb left...he could have lost some serious time to Menchov and DiLuca.

15km and still descending on the cow path roads.

These roads are so skinny. How do cars even use them?